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The entire history of Australian recorded music can be traced through versions of Waltzing Matilda.
Just about every craze, fad and fashion in popular music has generated a recording of the song....
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Investigating the background of the man who first recorded Waltzing Matilda.
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Just about every craze, fad and fashion in popular music has generated a recording of Waltzing Matilda.
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This is the first recording of 'Waltzing Matilda’, recorded by Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, tenor John Collinson in London in 1926.
Summary by Graham McDonald
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It’s interesting to hear Waltzing Matilda sung with an American accent. The group sings a harmonised version of the chorus.
This version of Waltzing Matilda by The Merry Singers is the b-side on...
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The 1956 Melbourne Olympics generated several recordings of Waltzing Matilda, including this one from the Massed Bands of the Australian Regular Army, conducted by Maj. RA Newman.
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Waltzing Matilda has inspired numerous other songs. Perhaps the most famous, and most poignant is Eric Bogle’s And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, which he wrote as a newly arrived immigrant to...
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The Franklyn B Paverty Bush Band has been a Canberra institution for many years and recorded Waltzing Matilda twice on one CD. Alongside the more common version arranged by Marie Cowen in 1903, they...
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Waltzing Matilda became a popular song with foreign folk singers of various kinds in the 40s and 50s. Singers like Burl Ives, William Clausen, Harry Belafonte and the South African duo of Marias...
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Famed Australian harmonica player Horrie Dargie and his Rocking Reeds (a band of harmonica players) recorded this instrumental version in the early 1940s. It was re-released as part of a collection...
