Alan Marshall interviewed by Norm O'Connor in the Norm O'Connor folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1115912
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Marshall, Alan, 1902-1984, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1963 Nov. 29
- 2 tape reels (ca. 97 min.) : analog, ips, half track mono ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Norm O'Connor folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording.
Marshall discusses the origin and manufacture of the Condamine bell (sounds bell); the bullfrog bell; Wennicke, the Wagga blacksmith, and the purchase of his Wennicke Bells by Jack Adams of Jindabyne; bells of Mongan, the Albury blacksmith (sounds bell); imported English bells (sounds bell); importance of weight in bells; Mennicke correct name for Wennicke; reads from Mary Gilmore's 'The Tilted Cart' 1925? about his bells; early Australian storytellers; photographs of bullock drivers; bullock drivers often the sources of folk tales; the value and place of pocket knives; Joseph Rogers knives; Lance Skuthorpe who ran buck-jump shows and collected stories while travelling eg. 'The Champion Bullock-Driver'; Kinnear's saddle shop and how Skuthorpe drew pictures on his walls; Skuthorpe and the 'champion bucking bull of the world'; Skuthorpe's booklet 'A key to horse language by Professor Skuthorpe'; mythical place, 'The Speewa' (or 'Big Burrawong' (in NSW) where everything is bigger and better and in which camp fire yarns are set; some Speewa stories.
- Full contents:
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- Marshall spins yarns: 1. Crooked Mick and Gentle Annie at the Bullockies' Ball
- 2. Crooked Mick strangled himself on beard
- 3. Speewa pumpkins
- 4. Gentle Annie's wooden leg
- 5. How Crooked Mick sharpened his axe
- 6. Man said he married Gentle Annie
- 7. Old time cures
- 8. Perry's Pain Killer
- 9. Brandy & salt as cure
- 10. Skin disease Barcoo Rot
- 11. The strong wind willy willy
- 12. Tall story competition in a bar
- 13. Load of tin whistles 'played a symphony'
- 14. shearer's cook who never cleaned the pot - 'blue stew'
- 15. Cook who always broke ovens -'The Busted Oven'
- 16. 'The Black Dog Cook'
- 17. Cook who was a good fighter
- 18. Jam roll
- 19. Cook called 'Durban' because the only dish he made was named 'Durban'
- 20. Cook was elected and had to be able to fight, sometimes was Chinese
- Interview: 21. Eating Aboriginal foods
- 22. Horses, donkeys and ponies
- 23. While on the Cobourg Peninsula, N.T.
- 24. Buffaloes in Arnhem Land
- 25. His visitors, for example, the zoologist Dr. Ely, sings folk songs including some from Georgia, Antarctica.
- Notes:
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- Part of a collection of recordings and related material collected during the 1950s and 1960s by Norm O'Connor and others for the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
- Recorded at Melbourne (?) on November 29, 1963.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript unavailable.
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- Until 2033 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1963
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