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Tagged: 2000s
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‘How to Make Gravy’ has a cultish following these days; with five million downloads, a legion of Kelly’s fans have claimed 21 December as the official how-to-make-gravy day.
Kelly rolls out his...
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'Silent Night' was first performed 200 years ago this Christmas Eve in Salzburg, Austria. Schoolteacher and composer Franz Xaver Gruber wrote the popular carol with lyrics by Catholic priest Joseph...
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Written in 1960 ‘Six White Boomers’ is another Christmas song with a local theme; Santa unhooks his reindeers and delivers Christmas presents to Australian children with the aid of six large white...
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‘Deck the Halls’ is from the album This Christmas by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, released 9 November 2012 - just in time to be the perfect stocking-filler. The album came about when Newton-...
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Gurrumul was the debut solo album for singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (1971–2017), referred to as Dr G Yunupingu since his death. It is the best-selling...
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A series of highlight excerpts from The Oceania Project collection, selected by NFSA Sound curator, Tessa Elieff.
"My parents are PhD marine scientists and we’ve been carrying out research since 1988...
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A series of highlight excerpts from the Vicki Powys Wildlife Sounds Database, selected by NFSA Sound curator, Tessa Elieff.
These recordings are a compilation of bird-call and atmospheres gathered by...
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A series of highlight excerpts from the Brendan John Casey, Bioacoustic Monitoring, Growling Grass Frogs collection, selected by NFSA Sound curator, Tessa Elieff.
"The Growling Grass Frog choruses...
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‘Not Pretty Enough’ was the third single from Kasey Chambers’ second album Barricades & Brickwalls.
According to Macquarie University academic Brifget Griffen-Foley, Chambers wrote the song as a...
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Roger Cowland, former head of the optical department at Atlab (1974-1998) Interviewed by Sara Bennett in association with ScreenSound Australia's Oral History Project. Roger worked on approx. 400...