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Thread #15656   Message #2508102
Posted By: GUEST,Alistair Banfield
04-Dec-08 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Drover's Dream
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drovers Dream
Just to add to things that were mentioned years ago. The recordings made by Lloyd in Australia were original Wattle recordings. Topic themselves licensed the recordings from Wattle rather than the other way around. Warren Fahey was able to use some of the recordings on Larrikin records. There is a wonderful book just coming out written by the (deservedly) highly-respected musician and author Dave Arthur, being the biography of A.L.Lloyd or Bert Lloyd to his friends.

Goanna was queried a few years back as a word in a song and many of you will know this is a type of Lizard common in the outback. So common it is, that an Australian group took the name and produced (at least) one record which involved the production talents and musical talents of one Trevor Lucas, erstwhile friend of Bert Lloyd. Indeed the version Trevor sang on his first English solo LP of the song Waltzing Matilda owes much to Bert Lloyd. Another point of interest relating to Bert Lloyd is that his version is sung on the 1990s version of Encarta - Microsoft's multimedia encyclopaedia.