Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite songs/music (Al Jolson); mother's singing and songs; sings fragment of 'Give Me Your Smile'; more on his mother; agricultural song parodies - sings fragment; singing and performance; sings part of 'Threshing Machine' and 'An Old Man Came Courting'; quoits club socials and other village socials - women's involvement, singing; reference to a quoits social at Sleights; musical abilities; anecdote; alcohol; comments on self; meeting his wife; dancing; young people and quoit playing/singing - continuity; local singers and song ownership; comments on singing voices. [Tr. 1] Talk [?of John White]; the Black Bull pub; persuading people to sing; prizewinners and singing; pub as social centre; community activities; religion locally; dances and local dance band; father's politics; school headmaster - anecdotes; comments on young people. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A456r. 50 of 68.

Metadata

Identifier kbkmy4kx
IRN 414508
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A457r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kbkmy4kx
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Date 27 November 1976
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 69' 59".

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