Graham Bell interviewed by Alex Hood and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4978547
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Bell, A. Graham, 1940-, 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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- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 57 min.)
- Series:
- Alex Hood folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Alexander Graham Bell speaks about his early life in Timsvale, N.S.W.; dance music, local musicians; his family background; schooling; timber milling, hoop pine and cedar cutting; religion, his church life; the family move to Coffs Harbour; growth of the area; family, band formation (1952); local dances and balls; his apprenticeship; moving to Sydney; his participation in music and a new band; Tony Ansell; his marriage; working as a part time musician; travelling around Australia; returning to Coffs Harbour, raising a family; his work as a welder; prawn trawling, boat building; becoming a courier for TNT, working for them until 1975, collapse of business; his involvement in Country Music; working in radio; entrepreneur, Country Music shows; his radio programmes, Coffs Harbour, Kempsey, Tamworth; collecting oral histories from Coffs Harbour area, his collection of tapes; more about his ABC work in Country Music, 'Best Of Country', Radio Australia; setting up of Community Radio, '2 Air', at the Jetty, Coffs Harbour; his interest in video, making videos about the history of the area.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 11 August 2010 in Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Broadcasters
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2010
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