Max Dyer interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the Alan Musgrove collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3762979
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dyer, Max, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1997 Aug. 9
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 114 min.)
- Series:
- Alan Musgrove collection.
- Summary:
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Max Dyer (Alfred Maxwell Dyer), born 1929, died 2011 talks about his early childhood; schooling; shearing and wool shed work at weekends; working in a foundry during the week; managing a 500 acre property at Jondaryan; being a singing shearer for bus tours; Slim Dusty; talking to tourists about the history of area, the bullock teams, wool shed, shearers; the difference in shearing with hand shears to that of machine; English shearers; Australian tools being prohibited from export; the Folk lore society (1960); Long Bill Hollands, Barbara Allen, Backblock Shearer (Billi Day) ballads etc; Jack Power the bushranger; Peter Salt who played the concertina/fiddle/tin whistle; the tape made by his sister on which she sings and recites; an article in Folk lore society mentions 'Black block shearer'; his style of playing the guitar; the Carter family; old John Raffetty, a shearer; Tom Toke; his books.
- Partial contents:
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- Songs and poems: unidentified song
- The old hymn
- unidentified song
- Black block shearer (fragment)
- Harry Torani
- unidentified song (original, about Jondaryn at wool shed)
- Cunnamalla Jim
- Jack Power (fragment)
- Barabra Allen (fragment)
- Barbara Allen
- Jack Power
- Another fall of rain
- Black block shearer
- Shearers jamboree
- Life gets tedious
- Paddy O'Leary (dubbed from cassette)
- Pickled onions
- Bird (poem (Aileen Lazarus))
- Come o'er the meadows (sung (Jean Rundell))
- What will his mother say (poem (Aileen Lazarus))
- I want to be a soldier (sung by Jean Rundell)
- The Crab fish (sung by Jean Rundell)
- Bed time for Dolly (sung by Jean Rundell)
- You are just a man (sung by Jean Rundell)
- unidentified song (sung by Jean Rundell)
- Mother west to Bairnsdale (sung by Jean Rundell and Aileen Lazarus)
- Who will dance as good as me (sung by Jean Rundell and Aileen Lazarus)
- Just like my dear old Dad (sung by Jean Rundell and Aileen Lazarus)
- Paddle your own canoe (sung by Jean Rundell and Aileen Lazarus)
- Yankee Doodle (parody (sung by Jean Rundell and Aileen Lazarus))
- KKKKatie (sung by Jean Rundell and Aileen Lazarus)
- unidentified poem (Aileen Lazarus)
- The donkey (sung by Jean Rundell)
- The flying doctor, Those footsteps (Max Dyer).
- Notes:
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- Recorded August 09, 1997 at Bairnsdale, 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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- Until 2067 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1997
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