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Record Id:25688925 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:Boyd, Stan.
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.
Published:1971.
Description:1 digital audio tape (ca. 45 min.)
Playing Time:004500
Series:Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection
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.
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.
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.
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.
Subjects:Droving -- Queensland -- Anecdotes.
Folk musicians -- Queensland -- Cooktown -- Interviews.
Poets, Australian -- Queensland -- Cooktown -- Interviews.
Games -- Australia.
Folk songs, English -- Australia.
Other Authors:Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-
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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