Songs and sea shanties of Queensland collected by Bob Michell in Queensland Folk Federation collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3104713
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Michell, Bob, 1912-1977, interviewer
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research use; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the performer. Written permission also required for public use from the Queensland Folk Federation.
- Description:
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- 1967
- 1 sound tape reel (ca. 40 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips.
- Series:
- Queensland Folk Federation collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording
Compilation of excerpts from field recordings made by Bob Michell. Narrated by Bob Michell, with singing and conversation by Jim Creed, Albert Newitt, Enos Newitt, Cyril Duncan, Fred Davis, Captain Watson, and Captain Caddy. Poor sound quality.
- Full contents:
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- Singing: Out on the wallaby (sung by Enos Newitt, written by Henry Lawson 1891 and published in "The men who made Australia")
- Conversation: Enos Newitt discusses picking up 'Out on the wallaby' in a shearing camp around 1892
- Recitation: There's a whisper from the regions, out beyond the Barwon's banks (Jim Creed)
- You talk about your sheep dogs (Jim Creed)
- Singing: Tall gum (Albert Newitt)
- Tree shadows (Albert Newitt)
- The stockman's last bed (Albert Newitt)
- The wild boy (Cyril Duncan)
- Wild Rover (Cyril Duncan)
- Conversation: Fred Davis speaks of sailing and working on a steamer on the Murray
- Fred Davis sings: We're bound for the Royal Grande
- Strike the bell second mate
- Rolling home across the ocean
- The plains of Mexico
- No more a-roving
- Reuben Ranzo (a hauling song)
- Bet my money on Sally Brown
- Oh blow the man down
- Blow my bully boys, blow
- Oh whiskey is the life of man
- Rio Grande
- Oh poor old horse
- Conversation: anectodes (inaudible)
- Captain Watson sings: Capstan shanty, Heave away Santiano
- Captain Caddy sings: Fire down below
- Recitation: A shearer came to a black-leg shed (words of a song collected from Enos Newitt)
- Bob Michell talks about interviewing the Newitts at Bundaberg.
- Performer:
- Enos Newitt, Jim Creed, Albert Newitt, Cyril Duncan, Fred Davis.
- Notes:
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- Recordings of folk festivals, workshops, concerts, performances and recitations by various artists collected by the Queensland Folk Federation throughout the mid 1960s to the late 1980s. Included in this collection are select radio folk programmes.
- Recorded c1967 at Brisbane, Queensland.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Folklore -- Fieldwork -- Australia
- Other authors/contributors:
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This belongs to the Queensland Folk Federation collection.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2037 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1967
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