Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Description

Unedited Field Master tape. Female sings [2 unidentified], recorded in a ?pub/?social club. [Tr. 1] Male [possibly James Lyons] sings [ 'Come All You Young Fellows'], 'Down by the Tanyard Side', [unidentified], 'Patrick Sheehan', 'Robin a Bobbin', [Wassail song]; [first line: There was a lady lived in Leeds]; [unidentified]; ? Kathleen Lyons sings [unidentified], 'Old Skibereen' and [ 'She Moved Through the Fair']; children sing 'Robin a Bobbin'; James Lyons sings [2 unidentified], [ 'She Moved Through the Fair'], [unidentified]. [Tr. 2] Male recites [unidentified], re. the christening of McGuiness. [Tr. 3] Female sings 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' [part], a Wassail song [part], 'The Derby Tup' [fragment], 'Miner's Dream of Home' [fragment], 'The Derby Tup' and [ 'Poor Old Horse'] [fragment]. [Tr. 4] Male sings [unidentified], with banjo accompaniment. [Tr. 5] Tom Collinson of Ossett recites four monologues. The first two relate to a pack of playing cards, and are entitled 'Game of Life' and 'The Soldier's Prayerbook'; the third is entitled [? 'Pit Ponies' St. Leger']; the final monologue concerns mining and miners, and begins I sat at my ease by the cosy fire. [Tr. 6] Male recites a monologue entitled 'Short of Coal'. [Tr. 7] Female sings 'Barbary Ellen', 'Red Haired Sally' [singer explains the story, and sings in Gaelic]. [Tr. 8] James Lyons relates a story about a Russian performing bear in Batley and Dewsbury (c. 1910s); a clinkin' toad (watch); sings a song about the Titanic; Kathleen Lyons sings [2 unidentified], 'Patrick Sheehan'; JL sings [unidentified] and [ 'Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime'], [2 unidentified]; talks about his uncle coal mining in America; la-lahs an unidentified tune. [Tr. 9] Male sings [ 'Humbug Buyers'] [banjo accompaniment]. [Tr. 10] 5 of 7.

Metadata

Identifier gs6281jv
IRN 414672
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A621r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gs6281jv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Green, Anthony E
Date 1964-1966
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 125' 00".

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