
The years of the Second World War gave rise to numerous recordings of Waltzing Matilda. Jack White was an English band leader who led the band at the Astoria Dance Salon in London from 1936 until 1957 who recorded the song as a slow Foxtrot for Regal Zonophone around 1940-41.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.