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| Genre/Form: | History Interviews |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Alice Doran |
| Material Type: | Music |
| Document Type: | Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice Doran; Barry McDonald |
| OCLC Number: | 222129795 |
| Notes: | Music and conversation. |
| Event notes: | Recorded on May 18, 1984 in Armidale, N.S.W. |
| Description: | 1 audiotape reel (approximately 47 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track, mono ; 5 in. |
| Contents: | REEL (no. 15/6 in series) Music: -- Merry go round waltz (accordion -- fragment) -- Victor Cherry's schottische (accordion) -- Victor Cherry's schottische (another accordion) -- Merry go round waltz (accordion) -- I wonder who's kissing her now (accordion- parody learnt from grandmother) -- A black man a white man a chow --Dancing: Alice danced the heel and toe polka -- Music: Waltz of Vienna (accordion) -- ) --Granny Phyllis' Boston Two (fragment of set tune) -- Mockingbird Hill (accordion-together with yodellin' part) -- Tripping it lightly (accordion) -- Pearl Browning's waltz (accordion). |
| Series Title: | Barry McDonald folklore collection. |
| Responsibility: | recorded and interviewed by Barry McDonald. |
Abstract:
Alice Doran recalls her granny Phyllis playing Boston Two-Step tune; dances at Warrabah Station; working at Warrabah Station as a cook aged 19 years; Warrabah dance musicians include Stan Godley (played Ring the bell watchman); Roley Godley (played fiddle, learnt from Victor Cherry); Pearl Browning (played fiddle & accordion); Ray Doran (played accordion); how she learnt "Watson's Creek waltz" from a stockman, swimming horses across river to get to dances.
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