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Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 252, December 2019 - The Other Bush Music Club - 60 years of Victorian Folk Music Club
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Saturday, 31 October 2020
Singabout - Journal of Australian Folksong, Volume 4(4), July 1962
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ABC TV 1966 - Simmy (Simon McDonald) and the Lumsden Family Simon McDonald (Simmy) was a traditional singer and storyteller from near Creswick, Victoria, and this short footage is from a 1966 ABC TV program which documented folk singers of the time. The second half of the program features David Lumsden, his parents and grandmother. (posted Feb 2023 by Neil Adams who received the video from David Lumsden)
1. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - cover - Keith Antill
2. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - NEWS AND VIEWS - Editorial. John Meredith, the Editor of SINGABOUT since it's inception in 1957 (sic - should be 1956) has resigned after a sudden illness ... Sad news since our last issue was the death of Stan Wakefield ... CALLING ALL FOLKNIKS The Workers Educational Association has arranged a weekend school on Australian Folk Song ... CONTENTS
3. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE ALBURY RAM . Another version of the fabled ram. Collected by Arthur Lumsden and Norm O'Connor for the Folk Lore Society of Victoria, from Tom Newbound of Rutherglen, who died in 1960 aged 79.
4. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - From letters to the Editor (see also page 20) Dame Mary Gilmore says - SINGABOUT no.3. bought back a long-lost memory: - Frank Adams the one armed fiddler ... about 1870-72. I remember the fiddle tuned the wrong way ... You are doing the best kind of historical work with your Society and SINGABOUT - the people's history.
From Mark Lewis, Cheltenham, Vic, who enclosed an article describing the "bottle-horn" which consists of a whiskey or similar shaped and sized bottle with the bottom knocked out ... Mr Lewis also says - the more elaborate relation of the lagerphone - the bumbass - is still in use in Germany ... SOME PERFORMERS FROM VICTORIA. David Lumsden & Tom McNoy
5. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - OUR FATHERS CLEARED THE BUSH sent by Joy Durst, of the Victorian Bush Music Club ... written by Mick Hughes
6. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE KNICKERBOCKER LINE we reprint this song from English Dance and Song, the magazine of the English Folk Dance and Songs Society ... Peter Kennedy first heard this version from Stanley Slade the Bristol Shantyman ... A similar version was also collected by Cecil Sharp at Shipton in 1911. Sally Sloane also sings this version.
OME TO A WORKSHOP NIGHT IN SYDNEY. Every Tuesday
7. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE GREAT NORTHERN LINE in contrast to THE KNICKERBOCKER LINE on the page opposite, we print a song sung by Duke Tritton to a variant of this tune.
8. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - RECORD REVIEW. ALP RECORD - Australia's short history has produced many songs of protest and complaint, union songs and rebel songs, and it's good to see that this tradition is being kept alive and extended to the field of politics. TOM MOREY CAMPAIGN SONGS ... the group that made this record (they are not named on the label) achieves good accompaniment, clear diction, and blending of voices in all the songs. After the re-distribution of boundaries ... Tom Morley did win the election, this record could be considered to have had a big influence (Alan Scott)
9. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - RECORD REVIEW You Can't Win Ballads by Peter Cape with Don Toms (Kiwi) ... I regard Peter Cape as a talented song writer and singer, possessing terrific ability in the telling of a yarn worth hearing ... Alan Scott. Ad for Melodia and HOHNER bush accordion
10. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Obit - Stan Wakefield ... (2 pages)
11. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Stan Wakefield, Battler and Song Maker (Len Fox)
12. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - IRELAND OVER HERE. Stan Wakefield collected this from an Irishman at Whyalla "who brought it out from Ireland with him". He sent it to us shortly before his death ...
13. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE CANECUTTER'S LAMENT. Sent in by Jimmy Laycock of Ravenshoe, North Queensland, who says "When I try to think back, some of the words eluded me, but this is a pretty close approximation" It is sung to the tune of "My bonnie lies over the ocean".
14. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK. Noreen Grunseit writes - Seeing WHEN JONES' ALE WAS NEW in SINGABOUT reminded me of another version of the song in England ... 5 jovial fellows ... the tune does seem somewhat different ...
15. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - COLLECTOR's NOTEBOOK - When Jones' Ale Was New (cont)
Dr Russel Ward of Armidale writes: A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to meet Mr Bill Mann of Yarrowich who remembers the tunes and a few words of two ballads about the New England bushranger THUNDERBOLT (Frederick Ward) ... One night in Uralla scrub I lay, Strange fancies came o'er me and I thought it was day (later known as Thunderbolt's Dream) ... and My name is Frederick Ward, I'm a native of of this isle, I rob the rich to feed the poor, and to make the children smile ... Mr Mann has remembered also fragments of another song .... Oh, my name is Alma Chandler, I'd have you all to know/ To make a bit of money, boys, a-shooting I did go ... (2 verses)
The complete words of THUNDERBOLT'S DREAM were later collected by Barry McDonald & recorded on a CD issued by UNESCO, 1998. Australia : music from the New England tablelands of New South Wales, 1850-1900
Recordings collected by Barry McDonald. Collection conceived and created by Barry McDonald, Mark Rummery and Cathy Ovenden.
track note for Thunderbolt's Dream - Mark [Rummery], button accordion - Barry, voice
Bill Mann of Walcha sang this, the only complete song about the Tablelands bushranger yet recovered in the field, although fragments of other songs do survive. All are cast in the first person, lending weight to the tradition that Thunderbolt, a skilled dancer and musician, himself composed them for circulation amongst his friends. Thunderbolt was the subject of a very strong noble-robber cult from the early 1860s. He was renowned for his non-violent resistance to authority, his horsemanship, his chivalrous attitude to women, and for evading capture for seven years - longer than any other bushranger.
16. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Dr Russel Ward (cont.) Vera Duncan of Dee Why sent us a poem called "Let's be Australians" I first heard these verses from a BHP company watchman I'd known since I was a school-kid living on Moscheto Island in the Hunter River ...
17. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Impressions from Queensland's BALLAD NIGHT 1962. It was too big a field this year for any detailed review. Three teams scratched and eighteen performed, three Junior, five Intermediate and ten Senior. Both evenings were on the long side. groups - Greenhide-&_Stringybark, Pineapple Polls, Narangi, Men Friday, Karoos, Krontjongs, University, Morton Bay Bushwhackers, Bandicoots - A & B, Hall's Gang, Realist Writers. It was clear the veteran teams were doing a fair bit of collecting in the field as well as arranging and even composing ... Taken all round, the standards were fairly high ... John Manifold. Ad for NORTH AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY.
18. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE IRISHMAN'S GOLD MINE Recorded by John Meredith from the singing of Duke Tritton
19. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE IRISHMAN'S GOLD MINE (Cont)
20. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - x From LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (see also page 4) From Pete Seeger , New York - Mr O'Connor of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria protests about your printing THE PUB WITH NO DIKE ... it seems to me to me that it is not only your right but your duty to print from time to time songs that may be be offensive or controversial. The revival of interest in folklore has suffered for many years by being bowderlized and emasculated ... It should be perfectly possible to present many songs in your magazine which might be inappropriate to sing upon this or that occasion. After all, even a hymn is a very controversial song. Just try singing one in the wrong church ...
SINGABOUT. Edited and produced by Gay Scott, Alan Scott and Brian Loughlin. Artist, Rod Shaw. Cover, Keith Antill.
ABC TV 1966 - Simmy (Simon McDonald) and the Lumsden Family Simon McDonald (Simmy) was a traditional singer and storyteller from near Creswick, Victoria, and this short footage is from a 1966 ABC TV program which documented folk singers of the time. The second half of the program features David Lumsden, his parents and grandmother. (posted Feb 2023 by Neil Adams who received the video from David Lumsden)
1. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - cover - Keith Antill
2. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - NEWS AND VIEWS - Editorial. John Meredith, the Editor of SINGABOUT since it's inception in 1957 (sic - should be 1956) has resigned after a sudden illness ... Sad news since our last issue was the death of Stan Wakefield ... CALLING ALL FOLKNIKS The Workers Educational Association has arranged a weekend school on Australian Folk Song ... CONTENTS
3. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE ALBURY RAM . Another version of the fabled ram. Collected by Arthur Lumsden and Norm O'Connor for the Folk Lore Society of Victoria, from Tom Newbound of Rutherglen, who died in 1960 aged 79.
4. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - From letters to the Editor (see also page 20) Dame Mary Gilmore says - SINGABOUT no.3. bought back a long-lost memory: - Frank Adams the one armed fiddler ... about 1870-72. I remember the fiddle tuned the wrong way ... You are doing the best kind of historical work with your Society and SINGABOUT - the people's history.
From Mark Lewis, Cheltenham, Vic, who enclosed an article describing the "bottle-horn" which consists of a whiskey or similar shaped and sized bottle with the bottom knocked out ... Mr Lewis also says - the more elaborate relation of the lagerphone - the bumbass - is still in use in Germany ... SOME PERFORMERS FROM VICTORIA. David Lumsden & Tom McNoy
5. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - OUR FATHERS CLEARED THE BUSH sent by Joy Durst, of the Victorian Bush Music Club ... written by Mick Hughes
6. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE KNICKERBOCKER LINE we reprint this song from English Dance and Song, the magazine of the English Folk Dance and Songs Society ... Peter Kennedy first heard this version from Stanley Slade the Bristol Shantyman ... A similar version was also collected by Cecil Sharp at Shipton in 1911. Sally Sloane also sings this version.
OME TO A WORKSHOP NIGHT IN SYDNEY. Every Tuesday
7. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE GREAT NORTHERN LINE in contrast to THE KNICKERBOCKER LINE on the page opposite, we print a song sung by Duke Tritton to a variant of this tune.
8. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - RECORD REVIEW. ALP RECORD - Australia's short history has produced many songs of protest and complaint, union songs and rebel songs, and it's good to see that this tradition is being kept alive and extended to the field of politics. TOM MOREY CAMPAIGN SONGS ... the group that made this record (they are not named on the label) achieves good accompaniment, clear diction, and blending of voices in all the songs. After the re-distribution of boundaries ... Tom Morley did win the election, this record could be considered to have had a big influence (Alan Scott)
http://www.warrenfahey.com.au/early-sydney-part1/ Daw, Hood &
Henderson ... The trio ... released two EPs ... one for the ALP in support of left-wing Sydney politician Tom
Morey ...
Ad for WEA & University of Sydney courses.
9. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - RECORD REVIEW You Can't Win Ballads by Peter Cape with Don Toms (Kiwi) ... I regard Peter Cape as a talented song writer and singer, possessing terrific ability in the telling of a yarn worth hearing ... Alan Scott. Ad for Melodia and HOHNER bush accordion
10. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Obit - Stan Wakefield ... (2 pages)
11. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Stan Wakefield, Battler and Song Maker (Len Fox)
12. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - IRELAND OVER HERE. Stan Wakefield collected this from an Irishman at Whyalla "who brought it out from Ireland with him". He sent it to us shortly before his death ...
13. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE CANECUTTER'S LAMENT. Sent in by Jimmy Laycock of Ravenshoe, North Queensland, who says "When I try to think back, some of the words eluded me, but this is a pretty close approximation" It is sung to the tune of "My bonnie lies over the ocean".
14. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK. Noreen Grunseit writes - Seeing WHEN JONES' ALE WAS NEW in SINGABOUT reminded me of another version of the song in England ... 5 jovial fellows ... the tune does seem somewhat different ...
15. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - COLLECTOR's NOTEBOOK - When Jones' Ale Was New (cont)
Dr Russel Ward of Armidale writes: A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to meet Mr Bill Mann of Yarrowich who remembers the tunes and a few words of two ballads about the New England bushranger THUNDERBOLT (Frederick Ward) ... One night in Uralla scrub I lay, Strange fancies came o'er me and I thought it was day (later known as Thunderbolt's Dream) ... and My name is Frederick Ward, I'm a native of of this isle, I rob the rich to feed the poor, and to make the children smile ... Mr Mann has remembered also fragments of another song .... Oh, my name is Alma Chandler, I'd have you all to know/ To make a bit of money, boys, a-shooting I did go ... (2 verses)
The complete words of THUNDERBOLT'S DREAM were later collected by Barry McDonald & recorded on a CD issued by UNESCO, 1998. Australia : music from the New England tablelands of New South Wales, 1850-1900
Recordings collected by Barry McDonald. Collection conceived and created by Barry McDonald, Mark Rummery and Cathy Ovenden.
track note for Thunderbolt's Dream - Mark [Rummery], button accordion - Barry, voice
Bill Mann of Walcha sang this, the only complete song about the Tablelands bushranger yet recovered in the field, although fragments of other songs do survive. All are cast in the first person, lending weight to the tradition that Thunderbolt, a skilled dancer and musician, himself composed them for circulation amongst his friends. Thunderbolt was the subject of a very strong noble-robber cult from the early 1860s. He was renowned for his non-violent resistance to authority, his horsemanship, his chivalrous attitude to women, and for evading capture for seven years - longer than any other bushranger.
16. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Dr Russel Ward (cont.) Vera Duncan of Dee Why sent us a poem called "Let's be Australians" I first heard these verses from a BHP company watchman I'd known since I was a school-kid living on Moscheto Island in the Hunter River ...
17. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - Impressions from Queensland's BALLAD NIGHT 1962. It was too big a field this year for any detailed review. Three teams scratched and eighteen performed, three Junior, five Intermediate and ten Senior. Both evenings were on the long side. groups - Greenhide-&_Stringybark, Pineapple Polls, Narangi, Men Friday, Karoos, Krontjongs, University, Morton Bay Bushwhackers, Bandicoots - A & B, Hall's Gang, Realist Writers. It was clear the veteran teams were doing a fair bit of collecting in the field as well as arranging and even composing ... Taken all round, the standards were fairly high ... John Manifold. Ad for NORTH AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY.
18. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE IRISHMAN'S GOLD MINE Recorded by John Meredith from the singing of Duke Tritton
19. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - THE IRISHMAN'S GOLD MINE (Cont)
20. Singabout, Volume 4(4), July 1962 - x From LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (see also page 4) From Pete Seeger , New York - Mr O'Connor of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria protests about your printing THE PUB WITH NO DIKE ... it seems to me to me that it is not only your right but your duty to print from time to time songs that may be be offensive or controversial. The revival of interest in folklore has suffered for many years by being bowderlized and emasculated ... It should be perfectly possible to present many songs in your magazine which might be inappropriate to sing upon this or that occasion. After all, even a hymn is a very controversial song. Just try singing one in the wrong church ...
SINGABOUT. Edited and produced by Gay Scott, Alan Scott and Brian Loughlin. Artist, Rod Shaw. Cover, Keith Antill.
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Singabout - Journal of Australian Folksong, Volume 4(2), May 1961
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ABC TV 1966 - Simmy (Simon McDonald) and the Lumsden Family Simon McDonald (Simmy) was a traditional singer and storyteller from near Creswick, Victoria, and this short footage is from a 1966 ABC TV program which documented folk singers of the time. The second half of the program features David Lumsden, his parents and grandmother. (posted Feb 2023 by Neil Adams who received the video from David Lumsden)
1. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - artist not named
2. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEWS AND VIEWS. Editorial - The Victorian Bush Music Club and the Folk Lore Society of Victoria have always been co-operative in contributing material to SINGABOUT. In this issue we make a special feature of some of their work ... Simon McDonald ... field work being done by F.L.S.V ... Gippsland, Shepparton, Omeo and Dargo ...
GUMSUCKERS' GAZETTE - It's nice to se the two Victorian organisations working together so well (something we couldn't manage in to do in Sydney).Their latest combined effort in an 8 page monthly journal ... available from Victorian Bush Music Club. The Bush Music Club in Sydney now issues a newsletter also. (contd. page 20) INDEX
3. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE LOST SAILOR, sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. and collected in 1957 by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
4. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Songs of Simon McDonald of Creswick. Simon McDonald is a woodcutter and gold prospector. His family were among the earliest settlers in the district, his great-grandfather J. Gannon coming out from Ireland about 1850 ... Some six or seven of his songs will be included in a disc being brought out by Wattle Records, in conjunction with the Folk Lore Society of Victoria, of traditional singers from Victoria.
5. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - Simon McDonald (cont) Ad for NORTH AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY. Ad for Melodia and HOHNER Bush Accordions. TUESDAY NIGHT IS WORKSHOP NIGHT at the BUSH MUSIC CLUB.
6. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE OLD MAN KANGAROO, sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. and collected by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria in 1957.
7. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE ROUSEABOUT. Sent to us by the Folk Lore Society of Victoria, with this note "From Mrs Alma Burge, 100 Jubilee St, Dubbo, NSW. An old shearer passed it on to her husband some years ago. By courtesy of Bill Wannan who printed two verses in Australasian Post." ON A LONELY WESTERN STATION. Irene Cameron of West Wallsend is looking for the rest of this ballad. Can any reader help?
8. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEW DISCS - Queensland Centenary Record (Wattle C9) ...13 items all collected in Queensland, and played and sung by the BANDICOOTS CONCERT PARTY and the MORTON BAY BUSHWHACKERS ... (A.S.) Songs of Early Victoria. This is a 7" 45-rpm from OPAL in Melbourne and features the BILLABONG BAND in what will probably be regarded in the future as a landmark in the performance of Australian folk songs ... (A.S.) Canada's Story in Song by Edith Fowke and Alan Mills ... Published by W.J. Gage Ltd, Toronto. (book) Let me say at the onset this is a beauty.
9. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEW BOOKS - Canada's Story in Song cont (A.S.) The Colonial Minstrel by Hugh Anderson (Cheshire, Melbourne, 30/-) ... biography of Charles Thatcher ... The Thatcher songs, many of which are quoted in full ... (J.M.)
10. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - WHEN JONES'S ALE WAS NEW As sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. and collected by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria in 1960.
11. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - WHEN JONES'S ALE WAS NEW (cont)
12. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE GOLDEN VANITY Sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. 1957-1960. Collected by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
13. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE GOLDEN VANITY (cont)
14. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK The Hat Ned Kelly Wore. Alan Scott collected this interesting fragment ... from the singing of Mr A. Argus of Gumly Gumly, NSW. The Pub with no Dike. We print this song by public demand! To our knowledge it was first published in the N.A.P.S.A. Song Book which was compiled by Peter Hickey and Kevin Power.
15. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Pub with no Dike. (cont) The Big Fish in Brisbane Waters. "Ironbark" of Ettalong, who gave us this ballad of his own writing, said that if he'd caught the famous bream of Anson's Bay he'd have thrown it back as undersized! This will fit to quite a few bush ballad tunes if you want to sing it. You try!
16. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - RECITER'S CORNER. The Bristol Rat. Matt O'Connor, from out at Border Fence, has sent us some good ones from time to time, but we think this is about his best so far.
17. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Bristol Rat. (cont)
18. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - What Bill Lewis Told his Grandson from John Manifold in his forthcoming book, Nightmares and Sunhorses (Overland, 15/-)
19. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Maid and the Magpie as sung by the late "Hoopiron" Jack Lee of Auburn, NSW.
20. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEWS AND VIEWS (cont from page 2) University Song Books. These items are always keenly sought after by singers ... University of New South Wales Song Book & National Association of Pharmaceutical Students of Australia Song Book is wisely known as NAPSA, compiled by Peter Hickey and Kevin Power. VIVE LA CANADIENNE (TOPIC record) by Perry Friedman, available from Wattle Records. SINGABOUT Edited and produced by John Meredith, Alan Scott and Brian Loughlin.
ABC TV 1966 - Simmy (Simon McDonald) and the Lumsden Family Simon McDonald (Simmy) was a traditional singer and storyteller from near Creswick, Victoria, and this short footage is from a 1966 ABC TV program which documented folk singers of the time. The second half of the program features David Lumsden, his parents and grandmother. (posted Feb 2023 by Neil Adams who received the video from David Lumsden)
1. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - artist not named
2. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEWS AND VIEWS. Editorial - The Victorian Bush Music Club and the Folk Lore Society of Victoria have always been co-operative in contributing material to SINGABOUT. In this issue we make a special feature of some of their work ... Simon McDonald ... field work being done by F.L.S.V ... Gippsland, Shepparton, Omeo and Dargo ...
GUMSUCKERS' GAZETTE - It's nice to se the two Victorian organisations working together so well (something we couldn't manage in to do in Sydney).Their latest combined effort in an 8 page monthly journal ... available from Victorian Bush Music Club. The Bush Music Club in Sydney now issues a newsletter also. (contd. page 20) INDEX
3. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE LOST SAILOR, sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. and collected in 1957 by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
4. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Songs of Simon McDonald of Creswick. Simon McDonald is a woodcutter and gold prospector. His family were among the earliest settlers in the district, his great-grandfather J. Gannon coming out from Ireland about 1850 ... Some six or seven of his songs will be included in a disc being brought out by Wattle Records, in conjunction with the Folk Lore Society of Victoria, of traditional singers from Victoria.
5. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - Simon McDonald (cont) Ad for NORTH AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY. Ad for Melodia and HOHNER Bush Accordions. TUESDAY NIGHT IS WORKSHOP NIGHT at the BUSH MUSIC CLUB.
6. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE OLD MAN KANGAROO, sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. and collected by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria in 1957.
7. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE ROUSEABOUT. Sent to us by the Folk Lore Society of Victoria, with this note "From Mrs Alma Burge, 100 Jubilee St, Dubbo, NSW. An old shearer passed it on to her husband some years ago. By courtesy of Bill Wannan who printed two verses in Australasian Post." ON A LONELY WESTERN STATION. Irene Cameron of West Wallsend is looking for the rest of this ballad. Can any reader help?
8. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEW DISCS - Queensland Centenary Record (Wattle C9) ...13 items all collected in Queensland, and played and sung by the BANDICOOTS CONCERT PARTY and the MORTON BAY BUSHWHACKERS ... (A.S.) Songs of Early Victoria. This is a 7" 45-rpm from OPAL in Melbourne and features the BILLABONG BAND in what will probably be regarded in the future as a landmark in the performance of Australian folk songs ... (A.S.) Canada's Story in Song by Edith Fowke and Alan Mills ... Published by W.J. Gage Ltd, Toronto. (book) Let me say at the onset this is a beauty.
9. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEW BOOKS - Canada's Story in Song cont (A.S.) The Colonial Minstrel by Hugh Anderson (Cheshire, Melbourne, 30/-) ... biography of Charles Thatcher ... The Thatcher songs, many of which are quoted in full ... (J.M.)
10. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - WHEN JONES'S ALE WAS NEW As sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. and collected by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria in 1960.
11. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - WHEN JONES'S ALE WAS NEW (cont)
12. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE GOLDEN VANITY Sung by Simon McDonald of Creswick, Vic. 1957-1960. Collected by N. O'Connor & H. Pearce of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
13. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - THE GOLDEN VANITY (cont)
14. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK The Hat Ned Kelly Wore. Alan Scott collected this interesting fragment ... from the singing of Mr A. Argus of Gumly Gumly, NSW. The Pub with no Dike. We print this song by public demand! To our knowledge it was first published in the N.A.P.S.A. Song Book which was compiled by Peter Hickey and Kevin Power.
15. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Pub with no Dike. (cont) The Big Fish in Brisbane Waters. "Ironbark" of Ettalong, who gave us this ballad of his own writing, said that if he'd caught the famous bream of Anson's Bay he'd have thrown it back as undersized! This will fit to quite a few bush ballad tunes if you want to sing it. You try!
16. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - RECITER'S CORNER. The Bristol Rat. Matt O'Connor, from out at Border Fence, has sent us some good ones from time to time, but we think this is about his best so far.
17. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Bristol Rat. (cont)
18. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - What Bill Lewis Told his Grandson from John Manifold in his forthcoming book, Nightmares and Sunhorses (Overland, 15/-)
19. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - The Maid and the Magpie as sung by the late "Hoopiron" Jack Lee of Auburn, NSW.
20. Singabout, Volume 4(2), May 1961 - NEWS AND VIEWS (cont from page 2) University Song Books. These items are always keenly sought after by singers ... University of New South Wales Song Book & National Association of Pharmaceutical Students of Australia Song Book is wisely known as NAPSA, compiled by Peter Hickey and Kevin Power. VIVE LA CANADIENNE (TOPIC record) by Perry Friedman, available from Wattle Records. SINGABOUT Edited and produced by John Meredith, Alan Scott and Brian Loughlin.
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Singabout - Journal of Australian Folksong, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959/60)
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1. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - Melbourne's Billabong Band, founders of the Victorian Bush Music Club.
2. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - NEWS & VIEWS. EDITORIAL - An Australian Arts enquiry: A movement for an Australian Arts Enquiry, similar to the Massey Royal Commission in Canada ... One of the terms of reference asks if there is adequate research being done in Australian folk music and folk lore ... there is a great and urgent need for sponsored full-time collectors ... as is done in other countries ... If such a project does not evolve from the Australian Arts Enquiry, then the responsibility rests with the great Public Libraries in our capital cities. CORROBOREE RECORDINGS The objective of this new label ... popularise songs, music, literature, folk lore ...
3. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER. Recorded at Gulgong, NSW by John Meredith from the singing of "Cat" McCann. "Cat" learned the song from the late "Killer" (Alan) Riley, a truck-driver, who picked it up from a tent-mate when trapping rabbits in the Bourke district.
4. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - MAKING & PLAYING PAN PIPES, by John Manifold (Qld)
5. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - RIDING ON GUMMIN. Composed by Duke Tritton, when he was working on Gummin Station (it rhymes with "hummin") many years ago. Gummin is on the slopes of the Warrumbungle Mountains in Central NSW.
6. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE BREAM OF ANSON'S BAY. Words Clarence Strochnetter, music Stan Wakefield. ...we welcome a new songwriter ... from Pyengana, Tasmania ... our first contributor from the Southern State.
7. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE BREAM OF ANSON'S BAY. (cont)
8. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - NEW RECORDINGS. KIWI SONGS . During recent years many recordings and publications of Maori songs have reached us ... an enthusiastic revival in the tradition of collecting and singing old traditional songs, and the making of new sones in the traditional forms ...A.H.& A.W. Red have issued a number of these songs on their KIWI label. THE ASHLEY CLINTON SHEEP'S CHOIR ... In the village of Ashley Clinton one Donald Squire, working with a couple of tape-recorders, recorded a mob of sheep. After painstakingly editing and marking the positions of "baas" ... Mr Squire was able to dub off selected baas in the right sequences to re-produce simple songs ... (Kiwi record SB-1-45-PRM, 7") video - The Ashley Clinton Sheep's Choir - Side 1
9. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEAPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU. (cont) (Kiwi Records EA 25 XP, 45RPM)
SONGS OF THE WHALERS, SONGS OF THE GOLD DIGGERS and SING AROUND THE WORLD ... 3 discs recorded by The Song Spinners. Kiwi record M31-1XP, 45 RPM, Kiwi record M31-2XP, 45 RPM, Kiwi record M31-3 LP, 33 RPM. Kiwi records are issued by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ
10. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d.(1959-60) - THE DYING SHEARER as sung by Mr. Tom Newbound of Rutherglen, Vic, who is about 80 years old and sings dozens of songs and generally remembers where he first heard of them ... (from BMC Victoria)
11. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE DYING SHEARER (cont)
12. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - RECITER'S CORNER - BATTLERS BALLAD from Jack Wright, Coogee, NSW
13. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - BOLLON - Stan Wakefield, Panania, NSW. SHEARING DITTY - Air Marching through Georgia. MORE RHYMING TALK -various correspondents,
14. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - FREE FOR ALL AT WYNNUM. What was meant to be a simple playback of Ballad Night tape-recordings at Wynnum on 12 Sept, developed into a festival of free-for-all playing. Those present included elements of the Bandicoots, Callywags, Eatons (alias Gravatteers), Greenhide-&-Stringybark, Krontjongs, Rosettes, University, Wrights, local unfederated talent, friends, neighbours, and non-playing members of the Federation of Bush Music Clubs ... Hans Zupfgeige, Qld.
15. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - OLD POLEY COW (air - Blue tail fly) contributed by Jamie Carlin of Sydney who received this version from Mr Alf A Ryall of Kojonup, WA. Mr Ryall writes "This song was seen in print many years ago in an Australian magazine"
16. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - BILLABONG BAND ... has enjoyed reading in SINGABOUT of the doings of other groups ... Twelve months ago or so we began to organise monthly "Singabout Evenings" with the aim of eventually building an independent Bush Music Club. The evenings proved very successful, and a couple of months ago the Victorian Bush Music Club was set up ... the band became involved in the latest New Theatre production of REEDY RIVER ... Frank Nickels, Victoria.
17. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - PELICAN JOE - A new song, words & music by Stan Wakefield.
18. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE STOCK ROUTE AGAIN - A new song, words & music by Stan Wakefield.
19. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - CORROBOREE RECORDINGS (cont).
A FAN FOR STAN - We are pleased that we have learned to sing ... The Kookaburra Laughed ... Grade 3 Box Hill South State School, Melbourne.
THE FOLK MUSIC RECORD CLUB is making available to members folk music from overseas ... The Club is associated with Wattle Records. Catalogues on application ...
MORE SHEARER MAN AND RHYMING TALK from Dennis Ryan. INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC COUNCIL The objects are to assist in the preservation, dissemination and practice of folk music of all countries ... an agency of UNESCO ... details from Wattle records. A TOAST collected by Stan Wakefield. TIME MEANS TUCKER - "THE DUKE" LOOKS BACK
20. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - NEWS AND VIEWS (cont from p.19)
TIME MEANS TUCKER - "THE DUKE" LOOKS BACK (cont) Time Means Tucker is the story of Duke's life ... available from The Bulletin, Sydney 10/-. THE QUEENSLAND CENTENARY POCKET SONGBOOK ... it is by far the most ambitious and best printed collection that has yet appeared in this country ... collected and arranged by the Brisbane Federation of Bush Music groups ... (Available from Edwards & Shaw, Sydney 10/-) SONGS FROM THE SHEARING SHEDS - The Bush Music Club's new recording on Festival ... 12 numbers ... sung by Jamie Carlin, Peter Francis, Alan Scott, Jack Barrie, John Meredith and Brian Loughlin. The striking cover design by Carolyn Kershaw shows five shearers all going hell-for-leather.
SINGABOUT Edited and produced by John Meredith and Alan Scot.
1. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - Melbourne's Billabong Band, founders of the Victorian Bush Music Club.
2. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - NEWS & VIEWS. EDITORIAL - An Australian Arts enquiry: A movement for an Australian Arts Enquiry, similar to the Massey Royal Commission in Canada ... One of the terms of reference asks if there is adequate research being done in Australian folk music and folk lore ... there is a great and urgent need for sponsored full-time collectors ... as is done in other countries ... If such a project does not evolve from the Australian Arts Enquiry, then the responsibility rests with the great Public Libraries in our capital cities. CORROBOREE RECORDINGS The objective of this new label ... popularise songs, music, literature, folk lore ...
3. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER. Recorded at Gulgong, NSW by John Meredith from the singing of "Cat" McCann. "Cat" learned the song from the late "Killer" (Alan) Riley, a truck-driver, who picked it up from a tent-mate when trapping rabbits in the Bourke district.
4. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - MAKING & PLAYING PAN PIPES, by John Manifold (Qld)
5. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - RIDING ON GUMMIN. Composed by Duke Tritton, when he was working on Gummin Station (it rhymes with "hummin") many years ago. Gummin is on the slopes of the Warrumbungle Mountains in Central NSW.
6. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE BREAM OF ANSON'S BAY. Words Clarence Strochnetter, music Stan Wakefield. ...we welcome a new songwriter ... from Pyengana, Tasmania ... our first contributor from the Southern State.
7. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE BREAM OF ANSON'S BAY. (cont)
8. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - NEW RECORDINGS. KIWI SONGS . During recent years many recordings and publications of Maori songs have reached us ... an enthusiastic revival in the tradition of collecting and singing old traditional songs, and the making of new sones in the traditional forms ...A.H.& A.W. Red have issued a number of these songs on their KIWI label. THE ASHLEY CLINTON SHEEP'S CHOIR ... In the village of Ashley Clinton one Donald Squire, working with a couple of tape-recorders, recorded a mob of sheep. After painstakingly editing and marking the positions of "baas" ... Mr Squire was able to dub off selected baas in the right sequences to re-produce simple songs ... (Kiwi record SB-1-45-PRM, 7") video - The Ashley Clinton Sheep's Choir - Side 1
TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEAPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU. Peter Cape's disc of the same name contains some fascinating numbers, but one can think of nothing more embarrassing than having to walk into a store and ask for it by it's name ... a village at Hawkes bay ... a Maori legend written in the vernacular ... Peter Cape singing the title song
9. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEAPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU. (cont) (Kiwi Records EA 25 XP, 45RPM)
SONGS OF THE WHALERS, SONGS OF THE GOLD DIGGERS and SING AROUND THE WORLD ... 3 discs recorded by The Song Spinners. Kiwi record M31-1XP, 45 RPM, Kiwi record M31-2XP, 45 RPM, Kiwi record M31-3 LP, 33 RPM. Kiwi records are issued by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ
10. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d.(1959-60) - THE DYING SHEARER as sung by Mr. Tom Newbound of Rutherglen, Vic, who is about 80 years old and sings dozens of songs and generally remembers where he first heard of them ... (from BMC Victoria)
11. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE DYING SHEARER (cont)
12. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - RECITER'S CORNER - BATTLERS BALLAD from Jack Wright, Coogee, NSW
13. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - BOLLON - Stan Wakefield, Panania, NSW. SHEARING DITTY - Air Marching through Georgia. MORE RHYMING TALK -various correspondents,
14. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - FREE FOR ALL AT WYNNUM. What was meant to be a simple playback of Ballad Night tape-recordings at Wynnum on 12 Sept, developed into a festival of free-for-all playing. Those present included elements of the Bandicoots, Callywags, Eatons (alias Gravatteers), Greenhide-&-Stringybark, Krontjongs, Rosettes, University, Wrights, local unfederated talent, friends, neighbours, and non-playing members of the Federation of Bush Music Clubs ... Hans Zupfgeige, Qld.
15. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - OLD POLEY COW (air - Blue tail fly) contributed by Jamie Carlin of Sydney who received this version from Mr Alf A Ryall of Kojonup, WA. Mr Ryall writes "This song was seen in print many years ago in an Australian magazine"
16. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - BILLABONG BAND ... has enjoyed reading in SINGABOUT of the doings of other groups ... Twelve months ago or so we began to organise monthly "Singabout Evenings" with the aim of eventually building an independent Bush Music Club. The evenings proved very successful, and a couple of months ago the Victorian Bush Music Club was set up ... the band became involved in the latest New Theatre production of REEDY RIVER ... Frank Nickels, Victoria.
17. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - PELICAN JOE - A new song, words & music by Stan Wakefield.
18. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - THE STOCK ROUTE AGAIN - A new song, words & music by Stan Wakefield.
19. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - CORROBOREE RECORDINGS (cont).
A FAN FOR STAN - We are pleased that we have learned to sing ... The Kookaburra Laughed ... Grade 3 Box Hill South State School, Melbourne.
THE FOLK MUSIC RECORD CLUB is making available to members folk music from overseas ... The Club is associated with Wattle Records. Catalogues on application ...
MORE SHEARER MAN AND RHYMING TALK from Dennis Ryan. INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC COUNCIL The objects are to assist in the preservation, dissemination and practice of folk music of all countries ... an agency of UNESCO ... details from Wattle records. A TOAST collected by Stan Wakefield. TIME MEANS TUCKER - "THE DUKE" LOOKS BACK
20. Singabout, Volume 3(4), n.d. (1959-60) - NEWS AND VIEWS (cont from p.19)
TIME MEANS TUCKER - "THE DUKE" LOOKS BACK (cont) Time Means Tucker is the story of Duke's life ... available from The Bulletin, Sydney 10/-. THE QUEENSLAND CENTENARY POCKET SONGBOOK ... it is by far the most ambitious and best printed collection that has yet appeared in this country ... collected and arranged by the Brisbane Federation of Bush Music groups ... (Available from Edwards & Shaw, Sydney 10/-) SONGS FROM THE SHEARING SHEDS - The Bush Music Club's new recording on Festival ... 12 numbers ... sung by Jamie Carlin, Peter Francis, Alan Scott, Jack Barrie, John Meredith and Brian Loughlin. The striking cover design by Carolyn Kershaw shows five shearers all going hell-for-leather.
SINGABOUT Edited and produced by John Meredith and Alan Scot.
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