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Thread #51723   Message #2422780
Posted By: Art Thieme
26-Aug-08 - 05:16 PM
Thread Name: William Clauson - where is he now?
Subject: RE: william clauson
I heard William Clauson at Chicago's GATE OF HORN folk nightclub----possibly 1959. His voice was better than Dyer Bennett's I thought--not as high pitched. For me, that meant 'more accessible.'

He did the absolutely best rendition of the Australian song, MORETON BAY that I ever heard. What a marvelous tune that song was given by someone!? And the sad tale made it a definitive favorite of mine. Why I never learned it I do not know. Maybe I do know why. I simply couldn't do it justice.

Somewhere along the road from then to here I lost my recording of Mr. Clauson doing it.
Art