Waltzing Matilda by John Collinson

Title:
Waltzing Matilda by John Collinson
NFSA ID
283469
Year
1926
Courtesy
Broadcast (Deluxe Series) W573
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The first recorded version of Waltzing Matilda, recorded in London in 1926, by John Collinson, a born near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.  For no obvious reason they changed the melody a little for the chorus. It didn’t sell many copies, a fate shared by the next recorded version, by Colin Crane in 1930.