Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Description

Unedited Field Master tape, comprising sound recordings of a number of unidentified singers and instrumentalists. Male sings 'Robin a Bobbin', [unidentified], 'The Volunteer Organist', [5 unidentified]. [Tr. 4] [Gap 2 minutes] Male recorder [?whistle] player plays tunes, including 'The Ring Your Mother Wore', 'Alice Where Art Thou?', 'Pretty Little Gee-Gee', [unidentified], 'America', 'Comrades', 'Silent Night', 'O Come All Ye Faithful', 'Left Like a Dog', 'One Night I was Passing' [also called 'Under the Shawl']; attempts 'Father Dear Father'. Player identifies each tune after playing it. [Tr. 5] Male sings two songs (unaccompanied). The first is about a mining disaster, and the first line is There's a home on the banks of the Tyne; the second begins There are heroes, British heroes. [Tr. 6] Mrs. Robinson and Anne Taylor[with piano accompaniment] sing 'Miner's Dream of Home' [fragment], 'Barnsley Anthem' [part]; Mr. Robinson sings 'Barnsley Anthem' [fragment]. [Tr. 7] Harold Robinson sings 'Barnsley Anthem'; a mining disaster song [first line: Once more sad news we hear]; [first line: We all love our native country]; [first line: We thought our ship would surrender]; [first line: In the prisoner's dock one morning]. Male sings [first line: Returning from the club one night], [first line: For many years the North express], [first line: Mr. McAdam and Co.], [first line: One night as I sat by my fireside], [first line: When the hills and dales are all covered in white] [fragment], [first line: I was brought up in London town]. [Tr. 8] Herbert Machon sings [first line: There are heroes, British heroes]; [2 unidentified], 'The Old Lady, Her Ass and the Cock'. [Tr. 9] Tom Daniel sings [with banjo accompaniment] 'Long Tom, the Old Yorkshire Gamekeeper', 'Poverty Knock', [unidentified] - incomplete (tape ends). [Tr. 10] 1 of 7.

Metadata

Identifier	l68mcrm8
IRN	414668
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A617r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/l68mcrm8
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: 92' 54".

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