Compilation - Articles about Alex Hood

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Hood - created by Tony Rees with input from Annette Hood & Lyn Mathieson

see also 

Compilation - Our founders, the Bushwhackers (1952-1957)

NLA Oral Histories - Bushwhackers and other early members 

  

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1.  Alex Hood's reminiscences of the Bushwhackers, at the National Folk Festival 2012
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/alex-hoods-reminiscences-of.html

2.  Alex Hood @ BMC, November 2014 -  photographic review - 27/12/14
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/alex-hood-bmc.html

3.  Wake for John Meredith, AM (1920 - 2001) - 24th March 2001
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/wake-for-john-meredith-am-1920-2001.html

4.  Archival photographs: The P-series of photos from the early days
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/archival-photographs-p-series-of-photos.html

5.  Report on members and friends gigs at Folk by the Sea, Kiama 2015
https://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/report-on-members-and-friends-gigs-at.html

6.  Rambleers reunion, Illawarra Folk Festival, Jamberoo 2002
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/rambleers-reunion-illawarra-folk.html

7.  From the Archives - Bush Music Festival 1981, John Fraser's photos
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com/2020/02/from-archives-bush-music-festival-1981.html

8.  From the Archives - Folk Concert, Conservatorium March 1965
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2020/06/from-archives-folk-concert.html

9.  Alex & Annette Hood collection - Alex's scrapbooks - part 1
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2022/12/alex-annette-hood-collection-alexs_21.html

10.  Alex & Annette Hood collection - Alex's scrapbooks - part 2
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2022/12/alex-annette-hood-collection-alexs.html

11.  From the Archives - Alex & Annette Hood at Jamberoo, 1999 - Bob Bolton Collection
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2024/08/from-archives-alex-annette-hood-at.html

12.  Alex Hood & Jason & Chloe Roweth in Concert, at Illawarra Folk Club July 2018 
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/09/alex-hood-jason-chloe-roweth-in-concert.html

13.  Compilation - Articles about Alex Hood
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/11/compilation-articles-about-alex-hood.html

14.  VALE - Alex Hood - 1935 - 2025
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/12/vale-alex-hood-1935-2025.html

15.  Alex Hood - Storyteller in Action
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/12/alex-hood-storyteller-in-action.html

16. Remembering Alex Hood, Concert 10th January 2026, presented by Illawarra Folk Club 
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2026/01/remembering-alex-hood-concert-10th-jan.html

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 215, Feb 2013 - Bush Music / RocknRoll.org.au & Far West Kids!

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S1 - Bush Music  / RocknRoll.org.au & Far West Kids!
alas, this site no longer exists

S2 -Australian Traditions spotted on the WWW

S3 - Answers - Bushwhackers ... Sydney Showground ... 26.01.1955
 Note: there is NO towers of speakers or lights. This was the days
that musicians made music that was not only easy to hear but easy 
to listen to, too. 

S4 - Alan on noseflute & Brian on lagerphone 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 214, Dec 2012 - "Leaving Anzac" - 2 singers' versions & a poem

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p. 7 - The Bushwhackers Band 'breaks into' the
mainstream media, February 1954 

S1 - 2 versions of Cecily Fox Smith's poem Farewell to Anzac - 
one by Charlie Ipcar of Maine, the other by
Martyn Wyndham-Read (version not available)
& a poem by Gail Copley about the sessions in Hut 44

 

S2 - Original words to Farewell to Anzac,  published in 
a book of WW1 poetry "War Verse" ed. by 
Frank Foxcroft, 1918.
Originally published in  Chamber's Journal. 

S3 - Farewell to Anzac - words by Cicely Fox Smith,
adapted by Charles Ipcar 1/1/2011, 
tune - inspired by You Gave Me a Song by Hazel Dickens

S4 - The Room by Gail Copley 

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From the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 2

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From  the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 1 - Miscellaneous pages, song sheets & new releases 

From the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 3

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Wattle Leaflets & records

Australian Bush Songs  1-8,  record cover - 9-10

Singing Sailors - 11-26

Waltzing Matilda - 27-32

Australian Traditional Singers and Musicians  33-34  

Mark Gregory's tribute to Australian Folklorist
Edgar Waters, 1925 - May Day 2008
 (Mulga Wire, no. 187, June 2008) 

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AUSTRALIAN BUSH SONGS leaflet

1. Australian Bush Songs - cover

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2.  Australian Bush Songs - page 1

3.  Australian Bush Songs - page 2

4.  Australian Bush Songs - page 3
 lyrics - The Hut That's Upside down

5.  Australian Bush Songs - page 4 - 
lyrics - Australia's on the Wallaby 

6.   Australian Bush Songs - page 5
lyrics - Click go the Shears

7.  Australian Bush Songs - page 6
lyrics - The Black Velvet Band  - learnt from Alex Hood 

8.  Australian Bush Songs - page 8
lyrics - Drover's Dream 
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THE BUSHWHACKERS - AUSTRALIAN BUSH SONGS  - Record cover

9.  Australian Bush Songs - cover  - Wattle B1 33-1/3 rpm

10.  Australian Bush Songs - no. B1
Side 1 - The Hut That's Upside Down & Australia's on the Wallaby
Side 2 - Click go the Shears & Black Velvet Band & Drover's Dream 

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SINGING SAILORS leaflet - 1957 

11. Singing Sailors - cover 

12. Singing Sailors - description of cover
Short Drag Shanties 

13.  title page - Singing Sailors by Ewan McColl,  A. L. Lloyd
and Harry Corbet, with Alf Edwards, concertina, & chorus.
 Record notes by Edgar Waters,  Record no. C3, 1957

14.  Singing Sailors -page 1 - Introduction 

15.  Singing Sailors - page 2
illustration- Halyard or long haul shanties 

16.  Singing Sailors - page 3

17.   Singing Sailors - page  4 -
illustration - Capstan Shanties

18.  Singing Sailors - page  5
illustration - Fo'c'sle songs or forebitters

19.   Singing Sailors - page 6
lyrics - Stormalong - The Gauger

20.   Singing Sailors - page 7
lyrics - Gauger (cont) + Van Dieman's Land 

21.   Singing Sailors - page 8
lyrics - Van Dieman's Land (cont) & Lord Franklin 

22.   Singing Sailors - page 9
lyrics - Lord Franklin (cont) & Paddy Doyle & The Black Ball Line 

23.   Singing Sailors - page 10
lyrics - The Greenland Whale Fishery

24.   Singing Sailors - page 11
lyrics - The Greenland Fishery (cont) & Haul on the Bowline
&  The Flying Cloud 

25.  Singing Sailors - page 12
Lyrics - The Flying Cloud (cont)

26.  Singing Sailors - page 13
Lyrics - Blood Red Roses 

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WALTZING MATILDA leaflet, B4 1958

27. Waltzing Matilda - cover

29. Waltzing Matilda leaflet - 
Lyrics - Wallaby Stew 

30. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
Lyrics - The Dying Stockman

31. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
lyrics - Waltzing Matilda 

32. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
lyrics - Another Fall of Rain 

32. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
lyrics - The Shearer's Dream 

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AUSTRALIAN TRADITIONAL SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Record number C7
Recorded by John Meredith and other members
of the AUSTRALIAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
Archive Series number one 

33. cover only 

34.  Letter re Wattle records 1984

35. Answer by Bob Bolton 

36.  Wattle - Drover's Dream 

37. 5 Wattle records - Drovers's Dream - A1, Travelling Down the Castlereagh - A2, 
Click Go the Shears- A5,  Nine Miles from Gundagai- A3,
The Hut That's Upside Down - A11

38 & 39 - 3 articles copied together at an unknown date - 
Left side - Australian offers more than Waltzing Matilda - Proposition for Radio -
RTN Radio & Television News, February 28,1958
Right side - top - Recordings by Peter Sainthill,  The A.B.C. Weekly - April 9, 1958
bottom - Local Ballads on New Label - Record with Deejay. 
Listener In-TV,  February 22-28, 1958

 

40 & 41. SONGS OF AUSTRALIA,  Wattle C9, June 1959
 Queensland Centenary 1859-1959
THE BANDICOOTS and The MORTON BAY BUSHWHACKERS
Folk Songs from Queensland 

 Back of sleeve 

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