Alice Doran interviewed by Barry McDonald in the Barry McDonald folklore collection, 1970-1989 [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 224025
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Doran, Alice, performer
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for both research and public use during the lifetime of the interviewer.
- Description:
-
- 1984
- 6 sound tape reels (ca. 212 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, half track, mono. ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Barry McDonald folklore collection, 1970-1989.
- Summary:
-
Folkloric recording: Alice Doran plays the accordion, piano, sings, dances and discusses local history in the Armidale District, N.S.W.; her biographical details; Victor Cherry; talks of the dances at her father's house in the bush; her granny Phyllis playing Boston two step tune; wouldn't leave home to study with a music teacher; Alice's daughter Beryl remembers dancing the mazurka; Alice Doran speaks about polka; mentions Kingstown was a musical place; Victor Cherry sang: Wrap me up in my stockings; she sang Peggy O'Neill, Mother Machree and Little old grey home in the west as a duet at dances; remembers Victor Cherry and also Ray Doran used to sing The old bark hut; recites fragments of Road to Gundagai; mentions Ray Doran came from Uralla; Alan and Charlie Doran brothers of Ray; none of the younger members of the family play music; discusses dances at Warrabah Station; working at Warrabah Station as a cook aged 19 years; Warrabah dance musicians include Stan Godley played Ring the bell watchman; fiddle player Roley Godley, learnt from Victor Cherry; fiddle and accordion player Pearl Browning played; accordion player Ray Doran; how she learnt Watson's Creek waltz from a stockman, swimming horses across river to get to dances; parody on the dance tune The Prince of Wales Schottische learned from Bill Cherry; the parody of Cock your leg up Sal Brown; Vic Snell and Alice blue gown; playing in the key of G on the accordion; recites The jolly miller parody; and talks of Ray Doran who played The boys of the Dardanelles.
- Partial contents:
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- REEL 1, Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Merry-go-round
- Ring the bell night watchman
- Alice Doran, accordion and Barry McDonald, violin music:
- Ring the bell (duet)
- Alice Doran, accordion music: Schottische by Victor Cherry
- Mockingbird Hill
- Barry McDonald, violin music:
- Tripping it lightly
- Alice Doran, accordion music: Tripping it lightly
- Mockingbird Hill
- Barry McDonald, violin music: Redwing (fragment)
- Alice Doran, accordion and Barry McDonald, violin music:
- Redwing (duet)
- Alice Doran, accordion music: Spanish Waltz
- REEL 2, Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Ring the bell watchman (fragment)
- Tripping it lightly (fragment)
- Starry night for a rumble
- Alice Doran, accordion and Barry McDonald, violin music:
- Starry night
- Starry night (repeat)
- Tripping it lightly
- Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Over the waves (fragment)
- Pearl Browning's waltz
- Watson's Creek waltz
- Beryl, Alice Doran's daughter, whistling and singing: Consolation.
- REEL 3,
- Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Schottische, Up like Lou
- Merry-go-round waltz
- Boston two step
- Barry McDonald, violin music:
- Jig (unidentified)
- Jig (unidentified)
- (unidentified)
- Alice Doran, singing:
- Listen to the mockingbird (fragment)
- Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Listen to the mockingbird
- Waltz of Vienna
- Alice Doran, piano music:
- Prince of Wales schottische
- Under the double eagle march
- Grand old Duke of York
- Pearl Browning's waltz
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Clementine
- Waltz of Vienna
- Babes of the wood.
- REEL 4, Alice Doran, piano music:
- Varsoviana (unidentified)
- Tripping it lightly/Up like Lou
- Camptown races (fragment)
- Redwings
- Starry night for a rumble
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Waltz of Vienna
- Alice Doran, accordion and Barry McDonald, fiddle music:
- Waltz of Vienna (duo)
- Barry McDonald, fiddle music:
- Waltz of Vienna
- Harvest home hornpipe
- Waltz (unidentified)
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Polka (unidentified)
- Square dance tunes (unidentified)
- Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Watson's Creek waltz
- Alice Doran, accordion and Barry McDonald, fiddle music:
- Mockingbird Hill
- Barry McDonald:
- Redwing (violin)
- The lad came from Erin's Isle.
- REEL 6,
- Alice Doran, accordion music:
- Merry-go-round waltz (fragment)
- Schottische by Victor Cherry
- Schottische by Victor Cherry
- Merry-go-round waltz
- I wonder who's kissing her now (parody learnt from her grandmother)
- A black man a white man a chow
- Waltz of Vienna
- Granny Phyllis' Boston two step (fragment)
- Mockingbird Hill (accordion together with yodellin' part)
- Tripping it lightly
- Pearl Browning's waltz.
- REEL 7, Alice Doran, accordion music:
- The Prince of Wales Schottische
- The Prince of Wales Schottische (repeat)
- Schottische by Victor Cherry
- Schottische by Victor Cherry (repeat)
- Home sweet home (4/4 version)
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Clementine
- The jolly miller/And a-hunting we will go
- The jolly miller
- Schottische by Victor Cherry
- Schottische by Victor Cherry (repeat)
- Pearl Browning's waltz
- Merry-go-round waltz
- Ring the bell watchman
- The road to Gundagai
- And a-hunting we will go
- Mazurka (unidentified).
- Notes:
-
- REEL 5 not in collection.
- Condition: REEL 2, Preserved analogue only, due to variable speed issue - pitch of voice and accordion rises after the first 5 minutes.
- Recorded on 20 January and 18 May 1984, at Armidale, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Detailed summary (9 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Folk musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- McDonald, Barry, 1955-, interviewer
- Related Records:
-
This belongs to the Barry McDonald folklore collection, 1970-1989.
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- Until 2054 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1984
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