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Thread #71003 Message #1213316
Posted By: Bob Bolton
23-Jun-04 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Song for Grace (Ted Egan)
Subject: RE: At the Going Down of the Sun - Who?
G'day again Franz,
... fair amount of orchestration ...
That sounds like the take of this song on Ted's The ANZACs, one of his "Faces of Australia" book / recording (variously LP, Cassette and then CD) series started for the Australian Bicentenary (1988). The ANZACs were the soldiers of the First World War Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (1914 - 1918) ... and, by extension, any Aussie and/or Kiwi troops in later wars. ANZAC Day (April 25) is one of the most reverently observed Public Holidays in Australasia.
Th addres the second point: Ted was a long-serving and popular officer with the Northern Territory's Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs (and a lot of his fellow officers were not ...). I'll agree that the real workers and peacemakers don't usually win gubernatorial honours ... but Ted is a great bloke - and he's a great Adminstrator!