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Whaling Songs of Harry Robertson

This CD can be found at the National Library, Canberra. Harry Robertson was highly influential - among other songs he wrote the Wee Pot Stove, later popularised by Nic Jones in the UK.

Contact Rob Willis through the National Library, he is still collecting Australian songs and has a huge knowledge of Australian folk music history.

Reedy River is a musical play set in the period after the 1890s shearers' strike. The play was written by Dick Diamond and performed by the Melbourne New Theatre in 1953, featuring the band the Bushwhackers and Chris Kempster (1933-2004) who had set Henry Lawson's poem 'Reedy River ' (1896) to music in 1949. It was directed by Marie Armstrong.