Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Fryup Cricket Club Dinner, recorded in a pub [in Newton ]; general conversation; unidentified male recites Christmas rhyme (repeated) and a New Year rhyme (traditionally spoken by girls on New Year's Day morning in the Yorkshire Dales); Christmas recollections; pig killing; conversation/banter; all sing 'Cwm Rhondda' (part); all sing 'Farmer's Boy', 'Willie Went to Westerdale' and 'We are Three Jolly Fishermen'; male sings fragment, 'Be I Berkshire'; all sing 'Oh What a Beautiful Morning', 'Surrey with the Fringe on Top', 'Hello Mister Fisherman'; hymn parody [subject: dogs' bottoms]; fragment of a blackbird song; fragment of 'If I Were a Blackbird'; fragments of several unidentified songs; all sing part of 'Never Wed an Old Man'; all sing fragment of 'When You Grow Too Old to Drink'; unidentified song about a cat. Dinner continues with general talk and banter, the singing of fragments of a number of unidentified songs [the singing of people in another part of the pub is audible in the background]; all sing 'Forever and Ever'; conversation whilst a group plays cards. 65 of 68.

Metadata

Identifier vg2r2rfs
IRN 414523
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A472r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vg2r2rfs
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Date 3 April 1976
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 56' 34".

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