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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2016, 08:45:23 PM »

Susan Colley's Waltz

https://youtu.be/zPjN4IaMJYs

All the best

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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2016, 04:33:23 AM »

https://soundcloud.com/the-sheep-teacher/wattle-flat-races
I wanted to post this brief track to get Joe Yates into the mix. To drive from home to Sofala we pass by the Wattle Flat Racetrack, venue for the Bronze Thong. Joe did not necessarily have names for all his tunes, but this one seems obvious enough.
BTW when Nick visits Tasmania he will no doubt hear of some siblings names Dawson. Edie especially would name her tunes as though there were lyrics for the first lines - an aid to memory perhaps - such as 'Take Your Boots Off and Go To Bed, John'.
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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2016, 07:49:41 AM »

I'll certainly look it for Dawson , thanks for that Busbox.
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Has anyone heard of the song. “ Broken Alarm-clock Blues” ? It starts   “I woke up this Afternoon”

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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2016, 07:12:45 AM »

Are you going to Tazzie Nick? It's a fab place.

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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2016, 09:15:53 AM »

Sure am Rog. I've pm'd you.
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Has anyone heard of the song. “ Broken Alarm-clock Blues” ? It starts   “I woke up this Afternoon”

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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2016, 10:29:26 PM »

Correction and apology.
Sorry to mislead everyone. I told Nick that for his Tasmanian journey he might look up a tune 'Take Your Boots Off and Go To Bed John' but misattributed this. It comes from the playing of 'apple isle fiddler' Eileen McCoy.
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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2016, 11:30:39 AM »

And anothery from me - Lachlan Tigers
   https://youtu.be/2JOAs8v9asg

The conventional wisdom* says that the tune is "related to the Scottish song 'Musselburgh Fair.'"  Is anyone familiar with that tune or song?
   * http://folkstream.com/082.html

 I've searched around and found a small pile of similar songs with great lyrics.
« Last Edit: September 26, 2016, 11:32:24 AM by Lonnie »
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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2016, 02:12:28 AM »

Just sneaking another one in before the "Tunes from Australia" theme expires. Here we have my 11 year old son Hunter showing up his poor old Dad in a brisk version of "Whiskey before Breakfast". To be fair on the old fellow, he's clumping away on a Hohner HA114, while the young chap is zipping along on a Castagnari MAX. Not fair really

https://youtu.be/_tEFUBKuQPc
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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #28 on: September 29, 2016, 10:02:31 AM »

I was rather hoping that someone would come up with "The Banks of the Condamine". This pops up as occasional music (on a concertina, I think) in the 1956 film "A Town Like Alice", but, try as I may, I can't get it quite right. I need inspiration!
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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #29 on: September 29, 2016, 04:40:17 PM »

I was rather hoping that someone would come up with "The Banks of the Condamine"...

I don't know if this is quite what you're looking for, but see:

http://www.davidjohnson.id.au/music/obs/abcweb/htm/Banks_of_the_Condamine_The_17.htm

for .mid and ABC versions.

Roger
« Last Edit: September 29, 2016, 04:42:18 PM by lachenal74693 »
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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #30 on: October 01, 2016, 09:21:09 AM »

Thanks again folks - end of the month and onto a new theme! Late entries welcome as ever - just stick 'em on the end.

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Re: Theme of the Month for September 2016: Tunes from Australia
« Reply #31 on: May 14, 2018, 12:37:26 PM »

A very late addition but I finally got around to recording one of my favourite Sally Sloane tunes.

Annie Shaw's tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JTl-jCW1_A

While growing up in Parkes NSW around 1910, Sally said she would hear a next door neighbour (Annie) playing this tune on piano with her violin-playing suitor.  Sally's mother used to ask Sally to play "Annie Shaw's tune" and the name stuck.

Its one of the most commonly played Sally Sloane tunes at Australian local tune sessions, usually in D but sometimes in G - or whatever key your one-row box is in ;)
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