| Description | Track 1: Test tone, 0.42 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker prepares to record Aida Cade singing, 1.39 mins
Track 3: Aida Cade sings a song beginning 'He has nine horses..' and talks about learning the song from her father and singing in her family because her mother was in the temperance choir, 2.12 mins
Track 4: Charles Parker asks about songs she used to sing at school, she talks about singing in the street, 0.28 mins
Track 5: Aida Cade sings 'Wally, Wally Wallflowers' and 'Old Roger is Dead', 0.50 mins
Track 6: Charles Parker asks Aida Cade about her accent; she says she is not proud of it, but she would not like dialect to die out. She reads an extract from one of the Mystery Plays and Charles Parker says that he thinks they sound better performed in York speech. Aida Cade agrees with this and talks about her grandmother's accent. They talk about the old speech dying out but say that Yorkshire speech is still recognisable. Aida Cade talks about visiting Somerset and finding that some people couldn't understand her. Charles Parker asks about carols that she used to sing at Christmas - she talks about going carol singing and life in the streets. She describes the organ grinders at weddings and travelling showmen visiting including a Russian with a bear, 6.02 mins
Track 7: Charles Parker asks Aida Cade about her mother's Christianity and they talk about York Minster. She describes going to a service on Good Friday which was full of young people. She says she does not agree with having pop festivals there. They talk about the York Mystery Plays - she says that they bring the Bible's message to you, 2.45 mins
Track 8: Background noise, possibly recorded at a pithead of a mine, 5.00 mins
Track 9: A miner talks with Charles Parker about working in a mine, 4.41 mins
Total: 24.25 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0428780 |