Alan Carey interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the Alan Musgrove collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3736879
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Carey, Alan, 1923-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1996 Dec. 27
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 126 min.)
- Series:
- Alan Musgrove collection.
- Summary:
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Alan Carey speaks about his family background; his mother's confectionery shop; the Depression; his various jobs with the Railways, working in Melbourne, Ballart and Swan Hill, Vic.; learning the mouth organ; Smith Street music shops; the cable trams in Melbourne; 'Butty Gang', explanation of duties; how Swan Hill was affected by aircraft and WWII; Swan Hill during that period of time; Sir Harold Clap; leaving the railways; the 'Manpower Act', reserve occupations; tip truck job; Taffy Thomas; White Swan Reservoir; bulldozer job at Eldorado; Tronah dredge, gold mining; meeting his future wife, Leila; how fishing brought them up to Cooma; playing the mouth organ only at parties, Christmas time or to help his magician friend; Jack Larvis; Bill Brink; Fred Reid; Ian Simpson who played a musical saw; having no interest in Old Time Dancing; a mouth organ contest, in Ballarat (1925); being 16 before he started to play the organ; mouth organ techniques.
- Partial contents:
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- Carey plays the mouth organ: The magic tune (The dove)
- Bill brink (song). Tells a story about a train from Swan Hill to Bendigo. Merry go round broke down (tune)
- My Daddy's a lavatory man (song). Stories about: Oscar and the horse under the train
- 1946 Kerang Shire. Road truck into rail vehicle. Poem 'Piddling Pete'. Suzanna (song)
- The black cat piddled (tune) Story. Home sweet home (tune)
- French tune
- Tickets please (tune)
- The Repaze march (tune)
- Old Black Joe (tune)
- The Irish washer woman (tune) Carey on Mouth organ and Alan Musgrove on guitar: Suzanna (sing)
- On the ocean wave (song)
- Joe the railway porter (song)
- Rakes of mellow (tune)
- Golden slippers (tune)
- Bill Brink the shearer (song)
- Mudgee waltz (tune)
- Mudgee waltz in A (tune)
- Tickets please (tune)
- Hop Scotch polka (tune)
- Hop Scotch polka (repeat)
- The chestnut tree (Palais glide (song))
- Stay in your own backyard (tune)
- The doors swing out (tune)
- Wheels (tune)
- The cuckoo waltz, The loveliest night of the year, My bonny lies over the ocean (tunes)
- Irish medley, When Irish eyes are smiling, Endearing young charms (tunes)
- Suzanne (song)
- Spanish eyes (tune)
- The carnival of Venice (tune)
- Red wing, Marching through Georgia, Red river valley (tunes)
- La Paloma (tune)
- Ah ya, yaya chi Roma (tune)
- Dear Bonnie more (tune).
- Notes:
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- Recorded on December 27, 1996 at Cooma, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Folk musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- Musgrove, Alan, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Alan Musgrove collection.
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- Until 2076 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2006
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