Ebb Wren interviewed by John Meredith for the John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2174040
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wren, Ebb, 1914-1992, performer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
-
- 1985 Mar. 30
- 3 tape reels (ca. 39 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
-
Folkloric recording. Ebb Wren plays aural piano, sings and recites. Wren speaks of playing from memory; his father and grandfather's musical abilities; performances; his experiences piano tuning; pianos; restoring instruments; learning the Australian anthem.
- Partial contents:
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- REEL 73. Singing: Batchelors farewell
- Piano: Shepherd's dance (ex father), repeated
- Barn dance medley
- REEL 74. Singing: Australian anthem (ex father)
- Recitation: Australian anthem
- Piano: Irish jig, Irish washerwoman (ex father)
- Stepdance tune, My Love is but a lassie yet (ex father)
- Stepdance tune, Finnegans wake (ex father)
- Stepdance tune, Girl I left behind me (ex father)
- Hornpipe, The westend (ex father)
- Waltz anon (ex father)
- Singing: My old fiddle and I
- Piano: Mazurka incomplete
- Varsoviana
- Singing: Untitled song
- Piano: Varsoviana var.
- Singing: Christmas eve in London
- Won't you buy me pretty flowers?
- The Mississippi flood.
- REEL 75. Recitation: When he's dead, untitled poem
- Singing: Mississippi flood (he ususally sings Darling River flood)
- Paddy Waddy Whack
- Mary had a little lamb, parody
- Piano: Waltz, My Polly
- Singing: Beneath the willow
- Piano: Waltz, The Wedding
- Oh what a wicked young man (ex aunt)
- Riding down from Bangor.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Forbes, New South Wales on 30 March 1985.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221517299
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Meredith, John, 1920-2001
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the John Meredith folklore collection.
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- Until 2055 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1985
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