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| Record Id: | 25688925 (Australian Library Collections) permalink |
| Author: | Boyd, Stan.
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| Title: | Folkloric recording, Stan Boyd recites poetry, sings folk songs and recalls his days as a drover and stockman [sound recording] / recorded by Wendy Lowenstein.
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| Published: | 1971.
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| Description: | 1 digital audio tape (ca. 45 min.)
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| Playing Time: | 004500
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| Series: | Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection
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| Summary: | Side 1: Stan Boyd recalls stories about his time as a drover and stockman. He recalls: the barmaid who fiddled the till, Flossie Few Clothes; Paddy Fox; Jardine's cattle; damper and beef diet; bangtailing; packhorses to Coen; the story about the Chinamen playing the pennies; no Chinese stockmen, cooks, etc., wages; Coen races, step dancer; Coen identities; Louisa Boyd, first woman to ride overland to Cape Yorke. Side 2: mickeys; throwing and marking cattle and horses; prices; brewery; popular tobacco brands, prices, papers, Chinaman's cigarettes; Aborigines admired , fish lore, colonial ovens; pearling; Aboriginal food, etc.; musical instruments; Chinese funerals, etc.; Sunday visiting at hospital; horse bells, etc.; melon hole and funnel ant country; Aldine Reciter; Lone Hand and Bully; the "good old days"; bullock and horse bells named, theft of bells.
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| Contents: | SIDE 1 Recitation (Stan Boyd's poetry unless indicated otherwise): A jackeroo's experience in Australia (poem) -- The Councillor's rocks (poem by Dan Sheahan) -- Take me back to dear old Cooktown (poem) -- The Joker (poem) -- I've courted girls by tropic seas (poem by "Dalcassian" in Register) -- Big shot (poem by Max Welch) -- poem in reply (unidentified title) -- The barmaid who lambed me down (poem). SIDE 2 Singing: Nancy, Nancy (song). Games: Mumble-the-Peg.
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| Biography: | Stan Boyd, (dec.), ex- drover, timber cutter, bush poet and folk musician from Cooktown, Nth Qld during the first half of the 20th century.
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| Notes: | A continuation of the Stan Boyd recording for the Wendy Lowenstein collection held at ORAL TRC 2915/9-11. Recorded on Aug. 1, 1971 at Cooktown, Nt. Qld.
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| Subjects: | Droving -- Queensland -- Anecdotes. Folk musicians -- Queensland -- Cooktown -- Interviews. Poets, Australian -- Queensland -- Cooktown -- Interviews. Games -- Australia. Folk songs, English -- Australia.
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| Other Authors: | Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-
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| Access Conditions: | Written permission required from Wendy Lowenstein for research use and public use.
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| Libraries that have this item: | National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (3109315) ORAL TRC 2915/12
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