Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he knows, and the problems of writing them down in Yorkshire dialect; his song, 'Muckspreader', and songwriting; sings 'Muckspreader' and 'The Girl with Orange Hair'; GE's farm work; singing in the Station Hotel [now The Eskdale pub]; the collector's research; family; his farm and electricity supplies; songwriting, and the choice of subject; the recording of his songs by an unidentified recordist; sings unidentified song about an angler named John Willie [one of a series of seventeen songs written by GE]; further talk of KS's research, and the instruments he plays; GE's biographical details. Talk of singing and singers in the Castleton area; pub singing [?at The Eskdale]; GE's musical preferences; songwriting - ideas and tune selection. 3 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | l16fbtjl |
| IRN | 414461 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A410r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/l16fbtjl |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 2 April 1975 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 52' 02". |