Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he sang on previous recording sessions; copyright in songs; making (amateur) tape recordings; pub singing and the singers involved; songwriting; accent singers; Tony Capstick's radio programme and folk songs/singers heard; what makes a good singer - importance of relating a song, pronunciation/accent, singing songs that suit a voice; musical accompaniment; bad singing; performance; singing in the Eskdale Moor pub, c. 1940s - early 1970s; repertoire; family; female/male audiences - differences; stories in the songs GE writes; modern songs and singing. [Tr. 4] Talk of KS's tape recording equipment; GE sings two unidentified songs; songwriting/remembering songs; sings unidentified song, and talks about another; exaggeration of stories in song (e.g. version of 'Muckspreader' by the Yetties); song tunes, songwriting and the problem of effectively writing down songs in Yorkshire dialect; sings unidentified song [ John Willie Christmas song, one of a series of seventeen written by GE]; comments/general conversation regarding songs and singing. [Tr. 1] 4 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | wyf8tdfk |
| IRN | 414462 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A411r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wyf8tdfk |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 6 January 1977 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 67' 22". |