Lola Wright interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 825946
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wright, Lola, 1926-2018, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Open access for research use; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2001 November 26
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 47 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Lola Wright, retired publician, sings songs from her days at Armidale Teachers College, old parlour songs, political songs, bush songs & parodies.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Singing: Bible stories
- I ain't a gonna grieve
- The housekeeper's daughter
- Shares in the very best companies
- The old maid's calamity
- I'll help you home again Kathleen
- College Anthem (Armidale Teacher's College 1943)
- A student's life is quite a happy one
- The banner song
- The College on the Hill
- The gym song (reference made to the Soviet Union anthem)
- We're all College students (reference to singing the Soviet Union anthem)
- Conversation: Introduction to songbook Rebel songs (ASLF Songbook Australian Student Labour Federation 1953)
- The internationale
- parody Praise him (confirmed as original)
- Bump me into Parliament
- Conversation: explanation of Freedom on the Wallaby
- Joe Hill
- Banks of Marble
- fragment of unidentified song.
- Tape continued Singing: Union maid
- It all sounds like bullshit to me
- Side by side parody
- Please release me (parody)
- Putting on the style (parody)
- Here's to the trails and the mountain top (parody)
- I ain't gonna be treated this a way (parody)
- Round bottom bognors (parody)
- Glory glory what a hell of a way to die (parody)
- Conversation: reference to tune Bible stories
- Singing: The old maid sat by the fire (parody)
- No balls at all.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Bruce Cameron.
- Recorded on Nov. 26, 2001 at Morundah, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Related Material:
- Related video recording with Lola Wright : located at; National Library of Australia Oral History & Indigenous Programs collection at ORAL TRC 6936/50.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
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- Until 2071 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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