Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing at the Plough pub [?in Lebberston], changes to the pub, the importance of holiday camps to pub custom, the pub when TS was younger; Lebberston village; sings [ 'There's None Like Susie-Anna'], 'My Happiness' [ 'Evening Shadows']; attempts 'How Much is that Dog in the Window?'; sings three unidentified songs; parents - singing, social life, tin whistle playing; sings 'Oh Genevieve', part of 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling'; talks about Irish songs; Sings 'When Your Hair has Turned to Silver'; granny songs; sings 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'; remembering songs; sings part of 'While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night'; Christmas carols, singing from a book/paper; hymn singing; remembering songs; choosing songs to sing; musicians/singers [?at the Plough]. Sings 'Now is the Hour' and 'I Wish that I was a Canary'; talks about Scarborough, roads and the North and East Ridings borders; sings 'That Old Fashioned Mother of Mine'; TS's dog; living alone; family, including great-grandchildren; marriage; employment - first job, farm work, East and North Riding [?Council], NALGO; first farm worked at Boythorpe - lists other farms worked at in the region; work at NALGO; education; sings two unidentified songs; sings ''Til We Meet Again', and a fragment of 'My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl'; sings a Gracie Fields' song, fragment of 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling' and 'My Island Laddie'. Conclusion of interview which starts on tapes LAVC/SRE/A417r and LAVC/SRE/A418r. 12 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | nckzt1b9 |
| IRN | 414470 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A419r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/nckzt1b9 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 11 December 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 87' 13". |