Leonard Hubbard recorded I’m Going Back Again to Yarrawonga, a song written by Neil McBeath, a corporal in the AIF, in the war years and published in 1919.

A popular vocalist of the 1920s was baritone Leonard Hubbard, another singer about whom little is known.

The Franklyn B Paverty Bush Band has been a Canberra institution for many years and recorded Waltzing Matilda twice on one CD.

Is Canberra calling to you? And why is it hot in Brisbane but Coolangatta?

Waltzing Matilda became a popular song with foreign folk singers of various kinds in the 40s and 50s.

Famed Australian harmonica player Horrie Dargie and his Rocking Reeds (a band of harmonica players) recorded this instrumental version in the early 1940s.

Tex Morton's version of Waltzing Matilda from 1943 was recorded for a wartime radio broadcast and has a very different feel.

The years of the Second World War gave rise to numerous recordings of Waltzing Matilda.

It wasn’t until Peter Dawson’s version in 1938, based on the arrangement by British musical examiner Thomas Wood, that Waltzing Matilda became a hit.

Gearge Trevares was a trombonist and band leader during the 40s and this arrangement was recorded in Sydney in July 1945 as the B side to Back to Croajingolong.