Jack Lumsdaine wrote and recorded Canberra’s Calling to You in 1938, the sesquicentenary of European settlement.

Hawaiian music had a burst of popularity in Australia with a string of recordings made between 1926 and 1955.

This is one of the Sydney recordings by touring Hawaiian artists David and Queenie Kaili, also known as The Hawaiian Entertainers.

Men at Work sing about travelling the world and what it means to come 'from a land down under’.

Summary by Martin Ford

Singer John Paul Young talks about re-recording his hit song 'Love is in the Air' for the soundtrack of Strictly Ballroom (1992) and his reaction to seeing footage from the film for t

Performed by Robert Nicholson & Reginald A.A. Stoneham

Mildura seemed a popular subject for songwriters, with Mrs G H Ball’s, My Old Home Town (Mildura) recorded on the B side of John Collinson’s first recording of Waltzing Matilda in

Australia's 'Tin Pan Alley' was born in 1942 with a burst of patriotic wartime songwriting.

Evelyn Grieg wrote Queanbeyan in 1938, the sesquicentenary of European settlement.

Popular music from the Second World War.