Bob Payne interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 345834
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Payne, Bob, 1929-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1998 May 20
- 2 digital audio tapes (106 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. 1. Payne, whipmaker and retired jackeroo, speaks of his early years in Adelaide finishing school at age 14, how he went cowboying at Broken Hill, working at a station west of Port Augusta, continued dairying and working horses back in Adelaide, more station work at Oodnadatta, how to break in horses as shown to him by Aboriginal Frank O'Neil whom he discusses, different styles of breaking in horses, how he played an old squeeze box but not seriously, how some of the station hands listened to Slim Dusty and Tex Morton, building huts for the construction crew of the Rocket Range at Woomera, droving through the Northern Territory in 1948/49, seasonal work as a station hand, his impressions of Pommy (British) jackeroos, Aborigines as jackeroos, how real to life was Ted Egan's film Drover's Boy, the interesting characters encountered on the track, his experience with good and bad cooks, describes a typical day droving, singing and whistling to the cattle, diseases encountered on the track like Barcoo rot (scurvy) and Barcoo spews (diarrhoea), lack of singing around the fire; playing the fife at school.
2. Song: Getting too old for it now (concertina). 3. Song: A drovin' (concertina). 4. Song: Bush homestead (concertina). 5. Song: Shearers' lament (fragment). 6. Music: One of the Has Beens (concertina; practice only). 7. Song: One of the Has Beens. 8. Song: A Drovin' (concertina). 9. Music: Home boys home (concertina). 10. Recalls the words to a song about Rendlesham, explains the history of the musical band the Dusty Peat Flat Band he joined. 11. Song: Dusty Peat Band song. 12. Song: Pidgin Matilda. 13. Differences in language between Aboriginal tribes, describes his parents, how he became a whipmaker, how to crack a whip, playing the fife at school.
- Notes:
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- Recorded by Olya Willis.
- Recorded on May 20, 1998 at Rendelsham, S. Aust.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-222792028
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available (4 p.).
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Jackeroos
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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- Creation date:
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