Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; sings and plays [ 'All the Darkies are A-Weeping'] on the ukulele, followed by [ 'She's My Sweetheart'], [ 'Wait 'Til the Clouds Roll By'], 'Swanee River', 'Camptown Races', [ 'All the Darkies are A-Weeping'], 'Polly-Wolly Doodle' and 'Playing on the Old Banjo'; talks about singing, village concerts, learning songs, minstrel shows; entertainment before radio and television; recites dialect version of a story of farm lads singing at Christmas; RH's publications; archaeological finds and the local museum; writing songs on an archaeological theme; sings and plays 'Modern Archaeologist', written about Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1966. [Sticky tape squeal prevents further playback of Track One at this point.] [Tr. 4] RH sings and plays on the ukulele 'The Ballad of Baldock' - gives background to the song; songwriting and the use of existing tunes; discussion of court leet and common grazing/common land, qualification for court leet - common right and election, court structure, court still held, also at Goathland and Danby; court rolls, court leet jury and personnel; courts baron; assizes of ale and ale testing; influence of court leet in modern times; remaining sheep farmers in the village; court leet and moorland; poaching and punishments of the past; last lord of the manor; village population and name. [Tr. 1] 25 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | s29fgdr8 |
| IRN | 414483 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A432r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/s29fgdr8 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 1 December 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 84' 28". |