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Record Id:9281735 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Title:Primary school children at Ballarat North State School recite rhymes and tell riddles and stories for the Australian Children's folklore collection [sound recording].
Published:1973.
Description:1 tape reel (ca. 7 min. 30 sec.) : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.
Playing Time:000730
Series:Australian Children's folklore collection
Summary:Recording recording. The Collection consists of traditional songs, music, rhymes and stories in several languages for young children selected by Gwenda Davey from original field recordings located at Museum Victoria.
Contents:Rhymes: Over the garden wall -- Cinderella dressed in Yella. Song: Cowboy Billy (not in English). Rhymes: Ta ra ra boomdeay. Riddle: Three tomatoes -- Pink pyjamas -- Black, white and red. Stories: An Italian and an Australian -- Aborigine and white man had a race -- Black man and white man in street -- Kid who can't speak English. Rhymes: Do you like coffee? -- All in together, girls -- Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue -- I'm a little Dutch girl -- Cinderella dressed in yella -- Down the Mississippi -- Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees -- What's the softest tissue (parody of Sorbent ad) -- Mary had a little lamb.
Notes:Recorded by Anne McGrath, a student at the Melbourne Kindergarten Teacher's College.
Recording begins approx. 16 min. 25 sec. into reel.
Recorded at Ballarat, Victoria on 27 March 1973.
Subjects:Children's poetry, Australian.
Children's songs -- Australia.
Children's stories, Australian.
Riddles, Juvenile.
Wit and humor, Juvenile.
Other Authors:McGrath, Anne.
Davey, Gwenda, 1932-
Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers' College.
Access Conditions:Access open for research, personal copies and public use. Acknowledgement to be made to Gwenda Davey.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (2216950) ORAL TRC 2632/16

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