From the Archives - Three letters from Mr L. G. (Lloyd) Montgomery (aka Sandgroper) received by Editor Dale Dengate in 1969 and 1970.
In April 1969 Western Australian member Mr L. G. Montgomery renewed his membership and enclosed copies of 2 songsheets he had published - Moondyne Joe and other Sandgroper Ballads, and The Wildflower Songsheet of Australian Ballads.
The Moondyne Joe songsheet was also sent to the Victorian Folk Music Club where two songs were published in the December 1969 edition of Australian Tradition and credited to the Perth Bush Music Club.
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2357914 Australia's singing West : a folk history of Western Australia in ballad and song / collected and retold by the Westerner. Rivervale, W.A. : Lloyd Montgomery, c1983, 61 p. : ill., music ; 30 cm. c1985 Red Tree Music.
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(All songs © LG Montgomery aka Sandgroper)
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In the May 1969 Bush Music Club Newsletter the Songsheets were credited to Mr. L.G. Montgomery, the "Sandgroper"
4. Newsletter, June 1969 - Moondyne Joe was set ... to a variant of Johnny goes down to Hilo - I loved this shanty tune - above all others - as a boy out on Blackadder Creek, in Moondyne country. I remember singing 'the bathing beauty with the seaboots on' ...
The Victorian Folk Music Club published two songs from the Moondyne Joe Songsheet in the December 1969 issue of their journal Australian Tradition, crediting them to the Perth Bush Music Club. Thanks to the Victorian Folk Music Club for permission to reproduce these pages
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6. Kangaoroo Pups
The folder came in 2 colours, and both contained an extra song.
8. The folders contained words & music for Moondyne Joe, Canning Stock Route, Down in The Gold Mine and Coast of New Holland. They also included a single songsheet - The Ballad of Ned Kelly (green cover) and The Canning Stockroute (black cover) and were accompanied by a smaller publication The Wildflower Songsheet.
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9a. information about Moondyne Joe
9b. Moondyne Joe
9c. Canning Stock Route
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11. State Library of Western Australia catalogue entry for Moondyne Joe, with incomplete citation.
12. State Library of Western Australia catalogue entry for The Wildflower Songsheet, with incomplete citation.
13. Letter, 27th November 1969, accompanied by 4 songsheets (foolscap pages scanned as 2 pages)
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15. Down in the Goldmine, version date 27th November 1969
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20. Letter dated 14th May, 1970
21. Canning Stock route, version dated 14th May 1970
22. Down in the Goldmine, version dated 14th May 1970
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9c. Canning Stock Route
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11. State Library of Western Australia catalogue entry for Moondyne Joe, with incomplete citation.
12. State Library of Western Australia catalogue entry for The Wildflower Songsheet, with incomplete citation.
13. Letter, 27th November 1969, accompanied by 4 songsheets (foolscap pages scanned as 2 pages)
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15. Down in the Goldmine, version date 27th November 1969
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20. Letter dated 14th May, 1970
21. Canning Stock route, version dated 14th May 1970
22. Down in the Goldmine, version dated 14th May 1970
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