A popular entertainment in Australia during the 1950s was Square Dancing, and just about any song could be turned into a square dance call.

Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Tour in 1954 was the occasion for this recording of the Thomas Wood arrangement performed by the South Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Singers for a Royal Gal

The 116th Rhythm Ensemble was an Australian military entertainment unit during the Second World War. They recorded this swing version for a radio broadcast.

From 1942 is a song about Wagga Wagga, a ‘Riverina paradise’, written by Frank Ottenson and recorded by Tom Davidson and his Orchestra.

The 1920s were the most popular time for songs about particular places.

Another song about Sydney was written and recorded around the same time by Maurice Chenoweth, a well known ‘silvery tenor’.

The NFSA has five separate versions of the song, O! Sydney I Love You, including two by Len Maurice, perhaps recorded at the same session.

The opening of the Columbia pressing plant in 1926 with its brand new technology of electrical (as distinct from purely acoustic) recording opened the doors to Australian performers to record their

Back to Croajingolong was published as Croa-jingo-long and recorded under that name by Harold Williams (as Geoffrey Spencer) for Regal in 1923.

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