https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-02/Colour%20TV%20Mega%20Menu%203%20TVs_1000x745%20px.jpg
Big Red by Russell Morris
Title:
Big Red by Russell Morris
NFSA ID
1147595
Year
2012
Courtesy
Ambition Music Group
Russell Morris's blues song 'Big Red' comes from his 2012 album Sharkmouth. A homage to Phar Lap, the lyrics include 'Big Red, more than a racehorse. Big Red, you carried all our dreams'.
The video features footage from The Mighty Conqueror (Paulette McDonagh, Australia, 1932).
Russell Morris's song 'The Real Thing' was added to the NFSA's Sounds of Australia list in 2013.
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.