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Folk songs by Bob Willis and the M'Futu Ceilidh Band recorded by Peter Hanigan [sound recording]
Bib ID 3773594
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Willis, Bob, Performer
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1997 
1 sound disk (CD-R)(ca. 80 min.) 
Summary

Folkloric recording. Includes "Songs of Frustration and Nastiness" by Bob Willis, and Pat Somers' M'Futu Ceilidh Band. Originally recorded on tape, the music was transferred to CD in 1997 by Peter Hanigan. The music consists of guitar songs, bush verse, bush ballads and Irish band music, and comes from Australians in Madang and parts of Papua in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Many of those involved continued their careers in Papua New Guinea after its independence. The Bob Willis songs are a satirical look at this period, and many are based on songs and tunes popular at the time. The M'Futu Ceilidh Band was a bush band formed by Pat Somers and others posted to Papua.

Full contents
  • Songs of frustration and Nastiness. Songs: We only thought of them
  • Talkin' Jackbook blues
  • That weekend in the pub
  • The DC's lament
  • When will they ever learn?
  • Botany Bay
  • The deadly patrol
  • When Johnny got in to Parliament
  • The times they are a'changin'
  • The man from Wabag
 
Notes

Lyrics and commentaries have been compiled by Peter Hanigan for 'Songs of frustration and Nastiness'.

Recorded during the late 1960's and early 1970's in Papua New Guinea.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Summary (4 p.) 
Subjects Australians - Papua - Music.  |  Australians - Papua New Guinea - Music.  |  Australians - Papua - Social life and customs.  |  Australians - Papua New Guinea - Social life and customs.  |  Folk songs, English - Papua New Guinea.  |  Folk music - Ireland.  |  Papua - History  |  Papua New Guinea - History
Other authors/contributors Hanigan, Peter, Interviewer  |  M'Futu Ceilidh Band

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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 5695 (summary)
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