| Description | Track 1: Silence; Track 2 Peter Tait; Tracks 3-10 Ernest Butcher; Tracks 11-16 Ernest Butcher and Muriel George singing [released on record labels DB and Parlophone].
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.13 Description of track: Silent start to tape
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 6.01 Description of track: Peter Tait, miner of Barnsley, Yorkshire [recorded by Dave Godman of Fircr of t College] Singing to the tune of 'Mary's Boy Child' an 1890s Barnsley political broadside about a miner's strike/lock out
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.59 Description of track: Ernest Butcher (baritone and piano) [Col DB 1555] Singing 'With Me Hay Bag' (including 'Blow The Man Down', 'Whisky For My Johnny' and 'Drunken Sailor')
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.22 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1555] Singing 'How To Treat A Wife' a Lancashire dialect song
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.28 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1555] Singing 'Ee But We've Got A Fine Baby' a Lancashire dialect song
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.16 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1624] Singing 'I Made Love To Kate'
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.44 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1624] Singing 'Lumps O'Pudden' from Magic Ring Cookery Book by Twigg and Norbury
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 3.16 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1624] Singing 'Peaceful Street' with sound effects
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 3.09 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1520] Singing 'I Sing as I Limp Along'
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.53 Description of track: Ernest Butcher [Col DB 1520] Singing 'Nowt About 'Owt' a country bumpkin love song
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 3.04 Description of track: Ernest Butcher and Muriel George [Parlophone R 911] Singing 'Leeds Old Church' a Yorkshire dialect song
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 3.19 Description of track: Ernest Butcher and Muriel George [Parlophone R 911] Singing 'On Ilkly Moor Bar't 'at'
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 2.03 Description of track: Ernest Butcher and Muriel George [Parlophone R 959] Singing 'The Michaelmas Mystery'
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 0.06 Description of track: Silent start to side 2
Track 15: Duration (min/sec): 1.02 Description of track: Ernest Butcher and Muriel George [Parlophone R 959] Continue singing 'The Michaelmas Mystery'
Track 16: Duration (min/sec): 31.43 Description of track: Ernest Butcher and Muriel George Singing 'Ah But Them Was 'Appy Times' [c27 mins of silence at end of track]
Total duration: (min/sec): 65.38 |