Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about playing in a local dance band, and the tunes played, in Farndale and Rosedale Abbey - involvement of the whole village; buying sheet music; dances in Hutton; modern influences on dances; RH's dance band and others in Cleveland playing during World War Two; other band members; Hunt Balls; payment; instruments; travelling to dances; selection of dance tunes; requests; band's musicianship; repertoire; audience requests influencing repertoire; teaching/entertaining child evacuees during the war; social club and dance nights; decline in social dancing early 1950s; pub singing; the village school. RH talks about a skiing trip to Norway; Norweigan dance music; plays ukulele and sings 'Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major', 'South of the Border', four unidentified songs, 'I'm Leaning on a Lamp-Post at the Corner of the Street', 'Kentucky Moon', and a number of square dance tunes; plays and sings 'Camptown Races'; talks about father's singing and piano playing, uncle's singing and banjo playing, mother hymn singing; sings fragments of unidentified songs; talks about a local Gypsy Traveller camp; Christmas customs - wassail cup, chants, holly, carolling; more talk of the Gypsy Traveller camp in Hutton. Continued on tape LAVC/SRE/A434r. 26 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | j79fnq8y |
| IRN | 414484 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A433r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/j79fnq8y |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 6 January 1977 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 93' 08". |