Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Whale Fishers'; singing at a folk club with his son; thoughts on contemporary folk music and singers; sings 'October Song' [song by the Incredible String Band]; defining folk song - contemporary and traditional; the 1960s' folk song revival; reference to Colin Wharton's fieldwork for his Leeds M.A.; comments on folk clubs; favourite songs; sings 'I Once Loved a Lass'; method of learning songs; sings 'Boston Harbour'; JW's wife enters and KS asks her about singing with her husband; drink and its effect on singing; committees and folk clubs - reference Robin Hood's Bay and Redcar. Talk of folk clubs continued; Kenneth Lovelace; singing/learning songs at school in Coxlodge; learning Geordie songs; sings 'Wor Nanny's a Mazer'; thoughts on dialect songs; talk of KS's song collecting, Cecil Sharp and Lucy Broadwood; Fred Jordan; observations on dress codes within the folk scene; folk club etiquette, audiences and participants; folk festivals - reference Whitby and Kinross. Continuation of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A460r, and concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A462r. 54 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | qv6zhzyw |
| IRN | 414512 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A461r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qv6zhzyw |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 29 November 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 89' 07". |