Neville Drysdale and Pat Nightingale interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2678957
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Drysdale, Neville, 1930-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1996 Jun. 28
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 109 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Neville Drysdale and Pat Nightingale talk about life in outback Australia, sing and play guitar.
- Partial contents:
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- TAPE 1 Conversation: Drysdale speaks of his early life at Lake Cargelligo, rabbit trapping, shearing
- Conversation: Nightingale speaks of his early life, how he learnt to play the guitar, buying the first Richenbacher steel guitar in Australia; playing guitar around Sydney
- Singing: Death of a shed rep (Nightingale)
- Shearing boots on (Drysdale)
- Flash Sydney shearers (Nightingale)
- The banks of the Murray (Drysdale)
- Conversation: Drysdale discusses the Euabalong Ball
- Singing: Unidentified song (Nightingale; variant of Leave the old home Jim)
- Drysdale continues the abovementioned tune
- Conversation: Drysdale speaks of learning songs
- Recitation: A day on Boiling Downs (Nightingale)
- Unidentified poem (Nightingale; poem about a shearing cook)
- Singing: Unidentified short song (Nightingale)
- Charlotte the Harlot (Nightingale)
- Conversation: Drysdale speaks of the dances at Euabalong.
- TAPE 2 Nightingale playing Richenbacher electric steel guitar with daughter playing accompaniment on acoustic guitar. Singing and Music: Flash Sydney shearers (Nightingale)
- Death of the shed rep (Nightingale)
- Shearing boots on (Drysdale)
- Storytelling: Doc & flood story (Nightingale)
- Ghost story (Nightingale)
- Conversation: Nightingale speaks of cooking for shearers
- Storytelling: The shearers' cook
- Conversation: Nightingale speaks of opal fossicking and sleeping in a cemetery
- Storytelling: Digging for sapphires (Nightingale)
- Fossicking (Nightingale)
- Fox with head stuck in a can (Nightingale) Singing and Music: Streets of Laredo (Drysdale)
- Conversation: Nightingale speaks of Tex Moreton and busking in Sydney
- Singing and Music: Death of Willie (Drysdale). 30
- When he comes (Lorraine)
- Conversation: family music
- Singing and Music: I just need to hold his hand (Lorraine)
- Drover's dream (Nightingale)
- Back-track back to Bourke (Nightingale)
- Notes:
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- Recorded with John Harpley.
- Recorded on June 28, 1996 at Keppel Sands, Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-634068735
- Related Material:
- Related video recording with Neville Drysdale and Pat Nightingale; located at; National Library of Australia Oral History & Indigenous Programs collection at ORAL TRC 6936/33.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.)
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- Until 2066 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1996
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