John Dengate interviewed by John Meredith in John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1844056
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dengate, John, 1938-2013, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1990 May 28
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 119 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Dengate recalls stories of the 1930's told to him by his father about his Uncle Sid and his mad mates and how they coped during the Depression in North Sydney, his father's sporting involvement in cricket and soccer, his childhood, his education at Armidale Teacher's College, his love of cricket.
- Full contents:
- Singing: - 1. Skin cancer blues. 2. Terry Metherill song (sung to the tune of: Goodbye, Mrs Durkin, I'm sick and tired of workin'). 3. S.W.O.S. (original tune). 4. The Hangover song (tune: At last I'm going to cease my wandering). 5. The Queensland policeman (tune: The New England cockie). 6. If I were a fellow with a bit more sense. (tune: If you know you are homeward bound). 7. Recitation and singing: The dead of Cleveland Street. 8. Sporting suicide (tune: Go to sea no more). 9. My tongue goes bumbling through Georgia (incomplete) (tune: March to Georgia). 10. My tongue goes bumbling through Georgia (complete). 11. Alan Bond song (tune: The crack was ninety in the Isle of Man). 12. Eric Dengate's song (tune: The patriot game). 12. When the A.L.P.'s in conference (tune: The Big Rock Candy Mountain). 13. The golden rose (tune: The parting glass). 14. The New South Wales Government and the internal combustion engine (incomplete) (tune: Biddy Mulligan). 15. The New South Wales Government and the internal combustion engine (complete). 16. The Railway song (tune: The wreck of the Old '97). 17. Recitation: Poem for Shauna. 18. The peach pickers song.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Glebe, New South Wales on 28 May 1990.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Meredith, John, 1920-2001, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the John Meredith folklore collection.
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- Until 2060 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1990
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