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Thread #172888   Message #4186913
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
18-Nov-23 - 11:43 PM
Thread Name: Sounds of Australia - National Archives
Subject: RE: Sounds of Australia - National Archives
1899 – Fanny Cochrane Smith’s Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs, Horace Watson - Horace's great-grandson Bruce Watson (known to Oz & UK folkies) wrote a song about the recording & has sung it with Ronnie Summers, a folk singer great-great-grandson of Fanny Cochrane Smith. The song was first published on his 3rd album, Out my window. At the 2014 National Folk Festival Bruce recorded the song on an Edison phonograph here

1955 – The Drover's Dream, Alan Scott and the Bushwhackers (the Bushwhackers founded the Bush Music Club the year before, it's Australia's oldest folk club)

1956 – The Man from Snowy River, Leonard Teale - he was a folk singer before he found fame as an actor.

1963 – He's My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy, Little Pattie and The Statesmen - this was my first record!!!