Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Oswald Welford, recorded at home in Roxby; recites some of the words to the song 'Farmer Giles', and sings a fragment; talks about singing and dances; mother's musical ability; OW's own music making on the piano and melodeon; anecdote re. local man singing at local election polling station; difficulty of remembering songs; favourite songs; songs remembered from his youth, references to the Boer War; contemporary (pub) singing; remembering 'Farmer's Boy'; the decline in pub singing and the effects of the jukebox. 37 of 68.

Metadata

Identifier y91vnb7j
IRN 414495
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A444r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/y91vnb7j
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Date 9 September 1976
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 22' 20".

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