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2020 Zoom concert -
Screenshots from the 7th John Dengate Memorial Zoom Get together, August 2020
ZOOM video - 7th Annual John Dengate Memorial Get together
You can now watch the full video of the 2021 ZOOM on YouTube via this link: https://youtu.be/mgmTptk2Rt8
Dale, Lachlan, Sean and Family were amazed and delighted that so many gave generously of their time and talents to share time recalling John’s songs, verse and sentiments. In spite of the technology which gave us a virtual link but was not as clear as when we could all get together, it was still a special afternoon thanks to Leyne and Max Elbourne. It is so good to hear so many who continue the traditions of Australia and political satire. Stay safe and hope we can meet, one way or the other, in a year’s time.
Dale
81 of John's friends & fans gathered to sing, listen, chat & reminisce.
Thanks to Leyne for all her work & for the Videos & Lyrics - including 2 contributions omitted on the day - video of Peter Hicks’ and Geoff Francis’ Tribute to Peter Dutton & audio of No Such Thing’s Sir Terence Lewis’s Triumphal March To The Gates Of Boggo Road Jail - Queensland My Home - “It was composed by one of our group who was a serving police officer in Queensland at the time of the infamous Bjelke-Petersen government and the subsequent Fitzgerald inquiry to uncover the rampant corruption. Our police associate had the pleasure of locking up his boss who was then the police commissioner at the time. Knowing John’s talent and political views for some great parody songs, I think that could be something suitable.” (Yvonne O'Grady, NST)
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1. MC Leyne Elbourne |
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2. Virago, Di Griffiths & Kath Morgan from Dubbo, sang John's Bare Legged Kate |
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| 3. Peter Russell sang John's Take Your Bulldozers Away |
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| 4. Chloe & Jason Roweth sang John's Bill from Erskineville |
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| 5. MC Rex Havoc recited Henry Lawson's One Hundred and Three, & also a poem of John's about Great Leaders! |
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| 6. Comrade Sir Big Russ with a parody Mug. He also contributed some of his incomparable limericks |
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| 7. Illawarra Folk Festival Parody award |
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| 8. Dale Dengate, in a dark room, recited 2 of her poems A Parody Mug Mystery & Scomo Scares me, this I know |
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| 9. Sean Dengate sang his The Things I shouldn't have said to China & Mandy recited Easter 1916 by William Butler Yates |
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| 10. Cal Dengate played California Dreaming |
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| 11. Colleen Burke recited her poems The Missing Link & What's For dinner? |
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| 12. Evan Mathieson sang John's Queensland Policeman |
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| 13. Robin Connaughton recited his poem The Brick & the Old Trout |
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| 14. John Warner singing Ecclesiastical Bastards, about Bishop & Abbott leaving politics, to the tune of Dinki Di. Ten Quid Poms also sung John's Bill from Erskineville |
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| 15. Chris Maltby sang his latest parody, Pork Barrel Song (tune Travelling down the Castlereagh) lyrics |
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| 16. Margaret Bradford sang John's Train Trip to Guilford |
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| 17. John Tubridy sang his 2019 Illawrra Dengate Parody winner, Banking Royal Commission |
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| 18. Margaret Walters sang Down in Abercrombie Street, a song she & John Warner wrote for Len Neary's 50th Birthday lyrics |
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| 19. Megan Roweth recited John's No Political Songs. |
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| 20. Seamus Gill sang Bill Scott's Hey, Rain |
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| 21. Kate Scott played several strathspeys |
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| 22. Gene Smith sang Morton Bay & Tony also played Moreton Bay/ Boulavogue, a good rebel tune |
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| 23. Doug Jenner sang John's True Dinkum Aussie |
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| 24. Kerith Power sang her 1980's composition Dungarubba Prawn Night |
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| 25. Allan Wright sang John's Anti-Metrics |
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| 26. Margaret Fagan sang John's Song of Childhood |
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| 27. Joanna Roweth recited Twinkle, Twinkle Little Cow |
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| 28. Daniel Kelly sang his latest composition, inspired by a recent space flight - When you Ride the Giant Penis in the Sky lyrics (to the tune of She'll be comin' round the mountain) |
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| 29. Songwriters Chris Maltby & Cathy Rytmeister enjoying the songs |
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| 30. Jane Scott sang her winner, Slaving on a Sunday Afternoon (tune Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon) lyrics |
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| 31. Lachlan Dengate sang Song for Tilly, a parody of 500 miles, a song about a dog, watched by a dog |
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32. Bruce Watson sang Barnaby Joyce, to the tune of |
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| 33. Chris Clarke, disliking rap as much as he dislikes Trump, rapped Take the Rap, a poem about Trump - lyrics |
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34. Neil Rowsell sang The Covid Cruise (to the tune of Ocean Liner) lyrics |
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