Basil Cosgrove interviewed by Wendy Lowenstein for the Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection
- Bib ID:
- 6343830
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cosgrove, Basil, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
-
- 1971 Aug
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 233 min.) : analog ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection.
- Summary:
-
Folkloric recording.
- Full contents:
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- Tape 68, Side 1: Twas Christmas time in the harem (poem)
- Hitler has only one brass ball (song)
- I'm not going to get married (joke)
- Starry night for a ramble (song).
- Side 2: Wallaby track (song)
- Two step tune, Varsovienna tune
- The minstrel boy (tune)
- The soldier's joy (step dance)
- Keel row (tune, with Dave de Hugard)
- Jingle bells (tune)
- Ring the bell watchman (tune)
- Rakes of Mallow (tune)
- Come all ye Australians, forget not the brave (song, fragment)
- The wearing of the green (song, fragment)
- unidentified tune (fragment)
- When I was young and gallant (parody of Little old log cabin)
- An old woman sat down by the fire (song)
- Wrap me up in my stockwhip and blanket (song, repeated)
- The hob-nailed boots that my father wore (song)
- It looks like I'll never cease my wanderings (song)
- Mr. and Mississippi (song, fragment)
- Ring the bell watchman (song, fragment (obscene parody)
- Tape 69, Side 1: Green light upon the green (song)
- He had a fine fol-der-ol-older-ol (song, fragment)
- Daisy, Daisy (song)
- Waltzing Matilda (song)
- Soldier's joy (tune), schottische (tune, Old Hackett's Schottische))
- Prince of Wales schottische (tune)
- Aupres de ma blonde (tune)
- Waltzing Matilda (song, Queensland version)
- A dirty old harlot lay dying (song)
- The ship that never returned (song)
- Oh, once I was appointed for to yard some kangaroos (song, The Goondiwindi line?)
- Oh, listen to all you maidens (song)
- Get away old man (song)
- Me knees are trembling (joke)
- Down at Ebor Hotel (song)
- There was a priest, a dirty priest (song)
- Hi Jimmy Johnson (song, fragment)
- I'm 80 in the morning (song)
- Stop your tickling, Jock (song)
- The preacher and the grizzly bear (song)
- White wings (song)
- Wi' a hundred pipers an a' (tune)
- Oh I had a donkey and he wouldn't go (tune and song fragment).
- Tape 70, Side 1: She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes (tune)
- Rakes of Kildare (jig tune)
- Goodbye brother Seamus (Mrs. Durkin) (tune and song fragment)
- Manchester Galop (tune)
- Lancers tune, Wi' a hundred pipers (tune)
- Coming through the rye (tune, song fragment)
- Goodnight Irene (song)
- All by yourself in the moonlight (tune)
- The hobnailed boots that my father wore (song)
- When my father painted the parlour (song)
- The shearers' jamberoo (song)
- Killarney (song, fragment)
- Mountains of Mourne (song, fragment).
- Side 2: A starry night for a ramble (song and waltz tune)
- I'll not go out with Reilly anymore (sung)
- Hallelujah I'm a bum (song)
- The bums rush (joke)
- The girls came miles to kiss me (song)
- The wallaby brigade (song)
- Goodbyee don't cryee (song)
- Cut yourself a piece of cake (song)
- The Goondiwindi line (song)
- Never man an old man (song)
- Oh I once was chased by kangaroo dog (poem, fragment)
- Wallaby track (song, repeated).
- Tape 71, Side 1: Memories (song parody)
- Pop goes the weasel (tune)
- Ching-a-ring (nonsense song)
- The preacher and the grizzly bear (song)
- Get away from my window (song)
- Fare the well, my Linda (song, fragment)
- So early in the morning (tune)
- The rabbit trapper's song
- My blue heaven (song, fragment)
- Mairsey dotes (song, fragment)
- The shearers' jamboree
- The Ebor boys are happy (song)
- Black Alice (song, fragment)
- On to the rushing bore boys (song, fragment).
- Side 2: The old red flannel drawers that Mary wore (song, fragment)
- Katie Farrell, the blind Irish girl (song)
- You're going to leave the old home, Jim (song)
- Redwing (song, parodies)
- unidentified schottische (tune)
- unidentified schottische (tune).
- Notes:
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- Recorded during August 1971 at Armidale, New South Wales.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-619904992
- Related Material:
- Additional recordings with Basil Cosgrove are available in the National Library of Australia's Oral History and Folklore Collection at ORAL TRC 2915/100
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary not yet available.
- Subject:
- Cosgrove, Basil -- Interviews
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006, interviewer
- Related Records:
-
This belongs to the Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection.
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- Until 2041 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1971
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