The Bush Music Club was founded in 1954 to collect, publish and popularise Australia’s traditional songs, dances, music, yarns, recitations and folklore and to encourage the composition of a new kind of song - one that was traditional in style but contemporary in theme.
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| p. 9 - Patricia Early - 17/3/34 - 1/5/2013 |
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| S1 - Singabout 4(1), 1960 cover |
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| S2 - South Coast Bush Band 1955, the second bush band in Australia organised by Lola Wright, inspired by a visit of the original Bushwhackers Band down from Sydney. See minutes 28th October 1954 for early Bush Bands in Sydney, also 9th November minutes recording a visit to Wol,longong, for a production of Reedy River, |
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S1 - The Duke 
S2 - poem - The Sandy Hollow line 
S3 - The Sandy Hollow Line (cont) 
S4 - Ode to Duke Tritton by Mike Martin
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| 1. The Swagman at the Golden Gate (anon) first published in The Penguin Book of Humorous Australian Verse by Bill Scott, 1984 |
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| 2. From the Archives - Harold Percy Croydon "Duke" Tritton 1886 - 1965 Life Member ... (Duke at Concert Party) ... he would normally sing solo as he was difficult to accompany because he would normally vary the tempo. ... when offered tickets to the smash hit "Guys and Dolls", he declined saying if it was called "Blokes & Sheilas" he would go. They changed the name for the night! |
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| 3. S1 - The Flu |
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| 4. S2 - The Flu by "Kookaburra", published in the Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Adviser and Diamond Creek Valley Advocate, 21 February 1919, p.1 |
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| 5. S3 - The Digger and the Flu by Anonymous, Published in the Cairns Post, 3 Jun 1919. p.7 |
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| 6. S4. After the Flu by Anonymous Published in the Gippsland Times, 20 Jan 1929, p. 6 |
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Books about Duke & his family - the first 3 books are available in the used book market
Time Means Tucker by H.P. (Duke ) Tritton. The Bulletin, 1959
Duke of the Outback by H.P. (Duke) Tritton. Angus & Robertson, 1965
Duke of the Outback by John Meredith. Legacy Books, 1985
Pumpkin Pie and Sandshoes by Linda McLean, 1981 - Duke's daughter's story of her early life. This book is vary rare, it's held by 24 Libraries across Australia, & thanks to Chris Woodland we now have a copy in our library. (October 2024)
1. 2 new (old) songs by Duke Tritton as published in Mulga Wire, no. 260, Summer 2023 with a review of Time Means Tucker
https://blog.bushmusic.org.au/2024/01/2-new-old-songs-by-duke-tritton-as.html
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Email from Ralph Pride, Editor of Mulga Wire, 3/1/24 - I’m sure “Hayse’ Gap” has never been published as a song until now. I arranged it from my memory of it being sung I think by Eric Bolton at BMC back in the 1970’s. I’ve asked a lot of people about it but it seems I’m the only one that remembers it so I thought it would be a good idea to write it down it before I forget it or worse. “Advice to a young Swagman” I took from “Duke of the Outback” by Merro. I don’t think it’s ever been published elsewhere.
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From the Archives - Send Round the Hat, Duke Tritton by his mates. Collected & edited by John Meredith - Part 1
A selection of pages from a foolscap photocopy of this draft document, scanned & tidied up by Ralph Pride. The original is held in John Meredith's papers in the National Library - File 6, Box 3
John Meredith's contribution - Tritton the Singer - pp. 46-86
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