Jack Wright interviewed by Alan Scott for the Alan Scott folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2920982
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wright, Jack, 1912-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access to be determined.
- Description:
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- 1987
- 5 tape reels (ca. 142 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Alan Scott folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Wright speaks about life during the Depression; jumping the rattler; The Battler's Ballad and other songs; police during the Depression including Sergeant Small; World War Two; politics in the 1930's. Recording of Mr Bell on Norfolk Island. Mayne Wright speaks about Mrs Gray on a radio programme in the Depression.
- Partial contents:
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- The battler's ballad
- The sailor's grave
- Our flag was halfmast high
- Milne Bay
- What a bore
- Cat boats
- Poor little Angeline
- The Chinese fossickers
- The new rush
- Petticoat Lane
- Tallawang
- Beautiful, beautiful Queensland
- It's a good time to get acquainted
- It's the bridge we've all been waiting for
- Hullo Sydney I love you
- Phar Lap; Woolloomooloo
- The Mississipi flood
- Yip Neddy.
- Notes:
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- Mayne Wright present at interview.
- Recorded at East Gosfor New South Wales on 16 May 1987, 15 June 1987.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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This belongs to the Alan Scott folklore collection.
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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