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Record Id:20108783 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:Milliner, Carrie, 1926-
Title:Caroline "Carrie" Milliner sings, recites and gives melodramatic monologues [sound recording] / interviewed by John Meredith; recorded by Rob Willis.
Published:1993.
Description:2 digital audio tape (ca. 110 min.)
Playing Time:015000
Series:John Meredith folklore collection
Summary:Folkloric recording.
Contents:DAT 62 Conversation: her childhood in the bush; snigging and cutting sleepers at age 8-9 with sister Phoebe; 8 miles walk to a dance then up the next morning at 5am to snig sleepers; life on the poverty line at Nethercote. Recitation: Maria Martin - Murder at the red barn (melodramatic monologue). Singing: Christmas Day in the workhouse (learnt from father); My buddy (learnt from father); A little watering can (learnt from mother); I'm going a milking sir, she said (learnt from father's brother, Uncle Jack); Bonnie moon (learnt from grandfather, an English migrant)
DAT 63 Singing: Barabaree Ellen (learnt from Max Walker's mother); repeated; Bonnie Moon (2nd attempt); Our school (by J.M. Lynch at the Nulligo State Forest School); The fox shoot (by father); Service to builders (by Claude Bobbin); Buff's fight (by Claude Bobbin). Conversation: the Nulliga bushfire. Singing: unidentified song about the Nulliga bushfire; Seven years with the wrong man; The drunkard's child (learnt from her father); I will never marry; Two soldiers; The Prisoner's song; You'll never miss your mother till she's gone; Amber tresses tied with blue; Don't do your dough at the races (learnt from her father); I don't work for a living; Rags. Conversation: story of the whip. Singing: Green grow the laurels (learnt from Uncle Dave Bobbin); Mush mush mush.
Notes:Recorded on May 30, 1993 at Nethercote, N.S.W.
User access copy made.
Part of:John Meredith folklore collection (AuCNL)2687559
Subjects:Milliner, Carrie, 1926- -- Interviews.
Milliner, Carrie, 1926- -- Childhood and youth.
Recitations.
Folk singers -- New South Wales -- Nethercote -- Interviews.
Children's songs -- Australia.
Singing.
Other Authors:Meredith, John, 1920-2001.
Willis, Rob, 1944-
Access Conditions:Open access.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (2873760) ORAL TRC 2590/62-63

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