Joe Hilder interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the Alan Musgrove collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3726430
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hilder, Joe, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1996 Jul. 28
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 77 min.)
- Series:
- Alan Musgrove collection.
- Summary:
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Joe Hilder talks about his first dance band approx. 35 years ago; learning the button accordion; playing, piano/violin/button accordion on the back of a truck up and down the main street of Gembrook 40 years ago; vamping on the mouth organ; 25 shillings paid for a band; playing 50/50 with board up to show dances; playing only Alberts; the band being named 'The Door Knobs'; his occupation as a truck driver; microphones being used, primitive; making up poems as he drove; the local paper requesting his poems; his mother teaching them poetry and reciting; his mother singing and reciting poetry; wanting to buy an accordion; the type of reeds used on an accordion he had; dot and dash system; his poem 'Hume' being written in truckies language; a truckies/drivers job; his father being German; Amarki accordion (?)
- Partial contents:
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- Poems: The lonely shearers
- Our Lizzy. Songs: I'm dancing with tears in my eyes. Poems: The agile sailor man
- Mum's treasure
- Shopping trolleys
- Hume. Tunes: Oh them golden slippers
- Marching through Georgia
- Auntie Mary lost her way in the bush
- The snow waltz
- The pixie dance
- The snow waltz (repeat) talk about this tune and its origins. A German tale. Tunes: The pixie dance
- Give me your word
- Haven't got a clue
- Haven't got a clue (repeat) - unidentified tune
- La Spaniola
- Little brown jug
- Follow the van
- Bells of St Mary's
- Silver bells
- Erin on the Rhine (German tune)
- Beautiful Ohio
- The ranger's waltz
- The ranger's waltz (repeat)
- Only a leaf
- Tying the leaves so they won't come down
- Beer barrel polka
- Pack up your troubles
- Tipperary
- unidentified tune
- unidentified tune.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on July 28, 1996 at Gembrook, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Musgrove, Alan, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Alan Musgrove collection.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1996
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