Lola Wright interviewed by Rob Willis in Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2114034
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wright, Lola, 1926-2018, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 2002 Feb. 12
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 81 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording.
Lola Wright was born in Childers, Queensland. She recalls her childhood years frequently moving around the country because of her father's work as a sleeper cutter & bushman; graduating from Armidale Teacher's College, N.S.W, rising to the position of School Principal for Oaks Flats.; settling in the Illawarra, N.S.W. & becoming involved with the Communist and Union movement; the local communist party branch's involvement in local folklore; working conditions for women in the 1950s; her actions as a feminist fighting for equal pay in the education system. She recalls forming & running the South Coast Bush Band in the mid-1950s after a visist from the original Bushwhackers to Wollongong; life during mining strikes.
- Partial contents:
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- Tape 1 Singing: Tiki Cafe Brothel
- Hungry miner
- Unidentified chant from school days
- Sheep sheep come home (chant)
- Recitation: unidentified poem
- Singing games: Mary mack
- Teddy bear
- Three Jews
- Singing: unidentified song from her grandmother
- Unidentified song from her grandmother
- Conversation: stories about her grandmother
- Story about a sundowner
- Singing: Tardy scholar (song learnt from grandmother)
- Rickety Jig (a school singing game)
- Mickey mouse
- Against the wind (theme song)
- A little farm like ours
- Are my ears on straight
- Conversation: talks about girls doing Eurythmics at school
- Singing: Amy Johnson
- Our Eleven
- Misery farm
- Horsey, horsey
- Horsey keep your tail up.
- Tape 2 Singing: I don't work for a living
- Jimmy Riddle
- Oh little cuddly native bear medley
- Twenty froggies went to school
- Ultimo
- Recitation: Captain Cockburn (original piece)
- Wharfie nicknames
- Conversation: reads about Saturday night dances
- Music (piano): Valeta waltz
- Schottische
- Schottishe
- Singing: Ultimo
- Tiki
- Jimmy Riddle.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with John Harpley.
- Recorded on Feb. 12, 2002 at Morundah, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2002
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