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The Goldrush
1 The Old Palmer Song
Vocals Peter Ellis, Stan Symes, David Vize, John Williams, backing Emu Creek Bush Band (This tune is well know as a Goldrush theme, adapted by Dreyfus for the ABC TV series Rush)
2 Take Me Back To Bendigo
Vocals Peter Ellis, Stan Symes, David Vize, John Williams, backing Emu Creek Bush Band
3 Lookout Below (Charles Thatcher)
Vocals & guitar Adrian Verrinder, Peter Ellis mouth organ
4 Picnic At Bullock Creek (Charles Thatcher)
Vocals Jim Evans, pianist Kenn Taylor
5 Home Sweet Home
On an Harmonium that was played on the Whroo Goldfields 1850’s Performer Philomena Cheong of Goornong. Home Sweet Home Waltz. Peter Ellis (piano, button accordion, anglo concertina, mouth organ, tin whistle), Kevin Harvey (banjo ukulele), Nicola Hayes (violin), Anton Marrone (mandolin), Julie Manypeney (banjo)
6 23rd Psalm
Bendigo & District Caledonian Society Singers (Caley Singers). Religion was a fundamental priority on the goldfields with various sects establishing their own churches expediently
7 Lola Montes Polka
Composed by Albert Denning, conducted by Richard Divall and performed by the State Orchestra of Victoria (from ABC Classics 461 826-2 ‘Australia Unite’) Lola Montes was a famed entertainer on the goldfields and her reputation preceded her. Her risqué performance of the Spider Dance called for a critical rebuke by the editor of a Ballarat newspaper. He in turn was stockwhipped down the main street by the fiery Lola Montes. This composition dedicated to Lola has the stockwhip highlighted in the presentation
8 Billy of Tea
Vocals Bert Gibson, Wayne Blandford, Phil Johnson, backing Peter Ellis anglo concertina, Des Skinner mouth organ
9 My Old Black Billy
Vocals Bert Gibson, Wayne Blandford, Phil Johnson, backing Peter Ellis anglo concertina, Des Skinner mouth organ
10 Jolly Puddlers (Charles Thatcher)
Vocals Jim Evans, piano Kenn Taylor
11 Australian Humbugs (Mr Mulholand)
Performer Geoffrey Graham. Narrators often stood on stumps to deliver political messages during the goldrush era. The sentiments expressed here are not much different today.
12 The Bendigo Creek (words by the late Chris E Howe)
Vocals & guitar by son Baden Howe, violin Nicola Hayes, recorder Margaret Hogan
13 The Miner
Alan Russ vocals and anglo concertina
14 Where’s Your Licence? (Charles Thatcher)
Tune The Spanish Cavalier, Vocals Peter Ellis, Stan Symes, David Vize, John Williams, backing Peter Ellis (button accordion, anglo concertina, tin whistle, mouth organ)
15 Bullocky O! (Bullock Team Archival track© 1979 Rrecorded by Phil Ashton Dunnolly. Bullock Driver Joe Morgan & Bert of Welshpool Gippsland)
This was one of the last of the Bullock teams in Gippsland and at the time of recording the bullocks were dragging logs from the forest to Port Welshpool to build the pier. Bullock driven wagons brought many adventurers to the goldfields. Pioneers travelled beyond Bendigo by Bullock team to settle the northern plains around the Terrick Terricks
Dave de Hugard, vocals, piano accordion, mouth organ,
Cultural Groups on the Goldfields
The Chinese
16 Archival track Chinese music and drumming
Clan McLeod Pipe Band & Chinese drumming and 1,000 crackers, awakening of the dragon ceremony, courtesy Golden Dragon Museum of Bendigo Sun Loong The Chinese Dragon (tune Puff The Magic Dragon) Specimen Hill Primary School Children preps & grade 1 1982, music teacher Ann Evans, courtesy Golden Dragon Museum
The Cornish
17 Hail To The Homeland (finale in Cornish)
Bendigo Cornish Choir
The Germans
18 Archival track Hatton Vale (Qld) Apostolic German Brass Band © 1970 untitled waltz & Qld German cross rowing style button accordion by Mark Schuster. Fritz Shick’s Waltz & Du Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen
19 Eurofest Choir Bendigo Inc singing Du Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen (You Lie In My Heart), Auf Der Schwabsche Eisebahne (On The Swabian Railway), Weisst Du, Wieviel Sternlein Stehen (Do You Know How Many Stars Are In The Blue Sky?, children’), Ein Jager Aus Kurpfalz ( A Hunter From The Rhineland Palatinate, a pop song of 1838). All songs are of the goldrush era or earlier
The Irish
20 Collected Irish Australian Jigs; Dublin Streets, Nora Creina, Bill O’Rourke, Connaughtman’s Rambles, Rollicking Irishman, Humours of Donnybrook, Irish Washerwoman. Graeme Balaam (violin), Peter Ellis (button accordion, anglo concertina, mouth organ), Anton Marrone (mandolin)
21 The Harp That Once Thro’ Tara’s Halls. vocals Glenda Verrinder, piano Olive Dobbyn
22 O’Grady’s Goat (popular song in Australia, 1890’s) vocals Jim Evans, piano Kenn Taylor
The Italians
23 Archival track Eleanora Bella, Andy Rodoni of Franklinford vocals & mouth organ. 1860’s Yandoit Italian Waltzes from Carlo Gervasoni. Maurie Gervasoni (Mezon button accordion), Nicola Hayes (violin), Margaret Hogan (recorder), Anton Marrone (mandolin)
24 Si Si Travagia and Terra Terra, Terra Come Lassi vocals & Mezon button accordion Maurie Gervasoni, Nicola Hayes (violin), Margaret Hogan (recorder), Anton Marrone (mandolin)
CD 2
The Kooris
1 Bunjil’s Jara People vocals & guitar Anne Conway and Olive Bice, Bill Whitbread sticks
2 No More Boomerang (Kath Walker) spoken by Nola Kerr (Aunty Nola), elder Dja Dja Wrung
3 Jacki Jacki vocals & guitar Herb Patten
4 Australian bird call mimics on gum leaf. Aboriginal tradition performed by Herb Patten
5 Archival track from the 1935 film ‘The Squatter’s Daughter’ featuring an Aboriginal Gum Leaf Band (tune untitled). Courtesy Cinemasound Movie Tone (CMP) and ScreenSound Australia. Probably learnt from the Europeans, Aboriginal gum leaf bands playing in harmony was a popular pastime encouraged on the missions and reserves. Message relays and bird call mimics were an earlier Aboriginal tradition.
6 The Legend of the Eagle (Warlick) and the Crow (Wardung), performed by John Lilford of Perth
The Scots
7 The Gael, bagpipe solo Ashley Richards
8 Farewell To Fiunary vocals Glenda Verrinder, anglo concertina Peter Ellis (Will Ye No Come Back Again) This version of the song brought out to Australia about 1860 by Barbara McDougall’s great grandfather John McDougall
9 Scot’s Wha Hae Wi Wallace Bled, performed by the Bendigo & District Caledonian Society Singers (Caley Singers)
10 J K Cairns, Bendigo Highland Pipe Band
The Welsh
11 Ar Hyd Y Nos (All Through The Night) performed by the Victoria All Male Welsh Choir
12 Prince Owen Kyveiliog’s Delight performed on harp by Meryl Wilkinson. This arrangement adapted from Wright & Round’s St David’s Day Lancers, figure 5
13 Pretty White Lilies an Australian song from the 1890’s performed by the Victoria All Male Welsh Choir
14 Archival track, Pretty White Lilies played in the aural tradition on button accordion by the late Harry McQueen of Castlemaine. Recording courtesy Phil Ashton of Dunolly
The Dances & Dance Music
15 The Sultan’s Grand March performed by the Rushworth Drum & Fife Band. Recreated and performed on fifes by Bob Ballantine, Marree Murrell, Roger O’Hara and Cynthia Scott. Mark Lees (side drum) & Don Manypeney (bass drum) The original band played for dances at Rushworth in the 1860’s to raise money for the Bendigo Hospital.
16 Sir Roger de Coverley, an old English Country Dance of the period performed by the Rushworth Drum & Fife Band. Often the concluding dance at a ball.
17 The Sandhurst March (1880’s) performed by the City of Bendigo Brass Band. Brass Bands were used for special functions including balls.
18 The Sandhurst Waltz (1860’s, composed in Bendigo by Miss Rockie Hasker) performed by Butler’s Band of the 1880’s. This band and instrumentation has been recreated and performed by members & friends of the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra, Bradley Barker (cornet), Colin Bubb (flute), Jo Johnson (violin), Daniel Herbst (violin), Sally Pell (flute) Chris Wilson (piano) Sheet music courtesy the late Frank Cusack
19 Sedgwick Quadrilles arranged by Herr Geisler for student W. Bull to play on violin at a Tennis Dance at Sedgwick in the early 20th century. Performed with harmonies by Greg O’Leary (violin). Fig 1 Finnigan’s Wake & Oft In The Stilly Night, Fig 2 Come Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl, Herr Giesler’s 1st tune, All The Birdies Sing, Herr Giesler’s 1st tune, Fig 3 MacGregor’s March & So Early In The Morning, Fig 4 Yankee Doodle & Herr Geisler’s 2nd tune, The Rakes of Mallow & Herr Geisler’s 2nd tune, Fig 5 Kelvin Grove & The Wearing o’ the Green, finale, The British Grenadiers
20 Daisy’s Varsoviana performed by the Original Wedderburn Oldtimers’ Orchestra 1975. The band presents an accurate representation of the style of dance music in the country from the 1890’s to the early 1920’s. The Varsoviana was one of the most popular dances in the bush.
21 Alf John’s Barn Dance (collected tune from Inglewood) the Sutton Grange Barn Dance transcribed in the 1950’s from earlier aural performance by Mrs McMahon of Castlemaine. Performed by the celebrated Emu Creek Bush Band
22 Kathy McCaughey’s Varsoviana No 2 (Little River) and Ma Seal’s Waltz Mazurka performed on anglo concertina by Dave de Hugard. The concertina was one of the principal solo dance instruments around the turn of the century. Kathy McCaughey was from Glen Innis NSW and Ma Seal from Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula SA
23 The Keel Row & Manchester Hornpipe on tin whistles, by Bob Ballantine, Peter Ellis & Marree Murrell for the Highland Schottische. Tin whistles were prime instruments along with button accordion, fiddle and concertina in the bush Tin whistle bands were common in cities such as Bendigo in the 19th century, often as a precursor to the fife
24 Frank McNiece’s Varsoviana, Home Flowers Polka Mazurka, Paddy Will You Now, Daisy Sutton’s Irish Lilt. The fiddle was another of the most important of dance instruments and this medley played in Australian fiddle style by Greg O’Leary. Frank McNiece (Harcourt) tune handed on by Alan Semmens of Sedgwick, Home Flowers from Elma Ross and sheet music, Paddy Will You Now from the 5th figure of the Royal Irish of 1849 and the Irish Lilt taught to Daisy Sutton (Wedderburn Oldtimers) by and Irish violin teacher.
25 The Waratah Polka Mazurka by de Gillio’s String Band. This band from 1900 to 1920 in Melbourne was formed by Italian street musicians at the request of Mr and Mrs Harry Leggett (Leggett’s Assembly Prahan). The instrumentation was described by Phil Leggett and performed here by members & friends of the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra. Graeme Balaam (double bass), Rodney Balaam (triangle), Colin Bubb (flute), Daniel Herbst (violin), Monique Herbst (violin), Anton Marrone (banjo), Sally Pell (flute), Travis Perera (cello), Meryl Wilkinson (harp), Chris Wilson (piano & cello).
26 The Original Schottische, Home Sweet Home and Ring the Bell Watchman. A harmonica duo by Peter Ellis & Des Skinner. The Schottische and Home Sweet Home are played separately and then as a counter melody and swapping over. The mouth organ was one of the most popular portable instruments in the bush and prominent at concerts and for dances. The Spring Gully dance was run to the music of one mouth organ until the Tone Kings were established in the 1960’s.
CD 3
1 Archival track Light Cavalry Galop (extract from a 78 record) by a Military Band. This type of band of woodwind and brass combination was very popular for special occasions. Nat Hallas Band of Sandhurst played for functions like the opening of the Deniliquin Railways with a ball in the goods sheds, 1876. The Galop was a vigorous dance popular from the 1830’s to about 1900. It and/or Sir Roger de Coverley were often the concluding dance.
2 Soldier’s Joy (Riddle Pan) played on piano by Elma Ross of the Wedderburn Oldtimers (NLA). Solo piano was the mainstay of dance music in the cities, towns and country schools and pubs. Elma’s playing was noted by dance authority Shirley Andrews to be in the real old style. Soldier’s Joy mentioned in the words of the Drover’s Dream was a 19th century Country Dance in it’s own right, probably the Scottish version in Australia, but the tune was frequently used as a set tune for quadrilles like the Lancers and First Set.
3 Archival track of Craig Barker singing The Emu Creek Progress Association Dance composed by Carolyn Marrone. Craig now 21, was a 14 year junior member of Emu Creek Bush Band. Guitar Craig Barker, mouth organ Peter Ellis
4 Bill Cooper’s Polka, The Berrimal Polka, Alan Semmens Polka and Harry Cotter’s (Binalong NSW) See Saw Polka played on Mezon button accordion by Peter Ellis. The Mezon was the Rolls Royce of the old button accordions with a very distinctive sound They were the most popular dance instruments in the bush from about 1900 until the Second World War. The Polka, like the Varsoviana, Polka Mazurka and Highland Schottische was one of the most popular of the couples dances in the bush. Some musicians specialised in these whilst others would swap over for the waltzes and Schottisches or the sets.
5 Turn of the Century Waltzes, Pretty White Lilies, Write Me A Letter From Home, My Home Girl, My Polly These beautiful Australian waltzes worked into the aural tradition of the bush from original sheet music performances in the towns. Peter Ellis (button accordion, anglo concertina, mouth organ), Nicola Hayes (violin), Julie Manypeney (banjo), Anton Marrone (mandolin)
Bush Concerts and Novelty Items
6 A Life On The Ocean Wave, Yankee Doodle & My Love She’s But A Lassie Yet variation, Ta Ra Ra Ra Boom De Ay, There Is A Tavern In The Town, The Rakes of Mallow Graeme Balaam (violin) Peter Ellis (button accordion, anglo concertina, mouth organ, bones, spoons), Anton Marrone (mandolin), John Williams beer bottles with teaspoons in the neck. Bones and spoons were popular rhythm instruments in the bush before drums became readily available and also popular novelties at concerts. In this recording bullock’s rib bones are played during the initial two tunes, then soup spoons in the 3rd and 5th tune. John Williams on the 4th and 5th tune plays an interesting novelty learnt from the late Frank Williams of Lockington. Here two beer bottles have two teaspoons in each neck and the bottles are struck and the spoons spun by striking with a further spoon in each hand.
7 Londonderry Air is played here on gum leaf by Aboriginal performer Herb Patten. Items on the gum leaf were once a common feature at bush concerts by Europeans as well as Aborigines. Even dances have been held in a barn to a solo gum leaf player.
8 When You And I Were Young Maggie, beautifully played on mandolin by Anton Marrone. Mandolins were a popular instrument at the turn of the century, popular at concerts but also at small dances in the kitchen or barn.
9 The Spring Gully Hop, this parody to the tune of Euabalong Ball could well represent a play on dances long ago. In fact it is a send up on Emu Creek Bush Band and the dancers from the Bush Dance & Music Club of Bendigo. Parodied & sung by Wayne Blandford and Phil Johnson. Backing Peter Ellis (button accordion), Les Giri (banjo mandolin) and Phyllis Swann (violin). Towards the finale Margaret Hogan joins in on recorder then the whole Emu Creek Bush Band.
10 Barcarolle played on One String Fiddle by Chris Wilson. The One String Fiddle was a popular buskers instrument in the depression years and often featured for Masonic Lodge entertainment and concerts. There are no known One String Fiddle players surviving and Chris Wilson made a special effort to learn the Stroviol brand instrument for this recording
11 The Song About Rhubarb. This hilarious song was once a popular concert item by the late Nimrod Matthews, noted local musical saw player. Fortunately it was recorded by John Meredith and Rob Willis for the National Library of Australia archives and so able to be included on this recording. Piano accompaniment by Elizabeth McConnell
12 Little Sir Echo played on a hand saw (joiner’s saw) by Gordon Ellis of Boree Creek NSW. Using a cello bow and inflections by hand on the tip of the saw blade to sustain the ‘echoes’ this is a most amazing recording. Hand saws and the especially manufactured ‘musical saw’ were once a very common concert piece, they are now very rare
13 The Spanish Waltz, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Soldier’s Joy performed on Jew’s Harp by Gary Clancey and backed on mouth organ by Peter Ellis. The Jew’s Harp was as common as mouth organs from mid nineteenth century until early twentieth century. This remarkable rendition by Gary concludes with a solo, the harmonicist can’t keep up.
14 Amazing Grace whistled by Clarrie Mansefield. Whistling once so popular is seldom heard now. Gifted performers like Clarrie were much sought after at concerts.
The 1890’s
15 Billycan Letters, Katy Cottril (English concertina), Harry Gardner (violin), Brian Venten (vocals, button accordion). The words for this song have been adapted from the handwritten notes of Con Klippel 2 of Nariel about the mining disaster at Eldorado near Beechworth in the 1890’s. The entombed men scratched messages to their loved ones on their billycans. The tune was collected by noted folklorist Ron Edwards. This performance is included with permission and all rights remain with the Victorian Folk Music Club Inc (VFMC)
16 Oh Give Me A Hut In My Own Native Land, Dave de Hugard (button accordion, anglo concertina, harmonium) HANS, please check track details re instruments named) This song was collected by folklorist John Manifold and is set about the opening up of land after the ‘breaking’ of the hold by the squatters. Slightly different words and tune have since been located Ron Edwards in an 1890’s written version in the Hurd collection) Dave de Hugard admirably performs his own interpretation of this song.
17 Waltzing Matilda (original Christina MacPherson & Banjo Patterson version of 1895) The popular version now sung originated from an arrangement in 1903 by Marie Cowan as best she could make from the earlier version that was circulating aurally. Christina MacPherson’s handwritten transcription for autoharp or ‘zither’ has only come to light in the last decade. vocals Peter Ellis, Stan Symes, David Vize, John Williams. Instrumentation Bradley Barker (guitar mandolin banjo or ‘zither’) Peter Ellis (anglo concertina, tin whistle, mouth organ, mandolin), Anton Marrone (mandolin) HANS, can you check if violin by either Nicola Hayes or Graeme Balaam is on this, don’t think so.)
18 Battlers Of The Bush (Eucy Workers’ Song), Steve Bullock (vocals, recorder), Katy Cottril (acoustic bass), Harry Gardner (violin), Brian Venten (vocals, button accordion) This song composed by Brian Venten is about the battler of the bush, the eucalyptus oil distiller. Many songs have been collected about whalers, sealer, drovers, shearers and so on. But none about the eucy cutter. In the great depression the last resort to scrape a living was to take on eucalyptus leaf harvesting for oil distillation, few owned up to it and so it nearly passed our notice as part of an important heritage. This song is included with permission, all rights being held by the Victorian Folk Music Club.
19 The Eucy Cutter’s Spree, Alan Russ (vocals and anglo concertina), Peter Ellis (mouth organ). This song penned by the late Jack Carr of Eaglehawk has been adapted by Alan Russ. It is a light tale of the weekly bicycle ride into Eaglehawk to cash the Eucy Cutter’s pay cheque, and the subsequent pub crawl.
20 Shearing In The Bar, Geoffrey Graham, has adapted this verse from the late Jack Carr of Eaglehawk and performs it superbly. It is a humorous spool of ‘bull’ and has nothing to do with the well known Shearing In Bar by Duke Tritton
The Wars
21 Dolly Gray (Boer War) archival track by Frank Lilford of Cranbrook WA, formerly form Ky Valley Vic, recorded in 1974 when 87 years old. Tells the story of Dolly Gray and the parody about the soldier coming home instead of being killed. Original song, vocals Peter Ellis, Stan Symes, David Vize, John Williams. Instrumentation Graeme Balaam (violin), Peter Ellis (button accordion, anglo concertina, wooden whistle, mouth organ)
22 Dinki Di, Adrian Verrinder (vocals & guitar), Instrumentation Peter Ellis (mouth organ), Nicola Hayes (violin), Margaret Hogan (recorder), Anton Marrone (mandolin) This collected World War 1 song reflects the Australian spirit and the rebuff of a pommie officer. HANS please check I have credits to instruments right)
23 Shining On The Cookhouse Door NLA, the late Bill Case of Mt Gambier (vocals), Maureen Heazlewood and Prop Heazlewood (support vocals), Rob Willis (support vocals), Don McBain (support vocals) Maureen Aston (Bill’s daughter on piano) A wonderful ditty about the stars shining on the cookhouse door (really the door of the outhouse) and the distinction between the class of food for the officers and that of the soldier
24 Take Me Back To Bendigo performed by the Bendigo & District Cornish Choir. The Song also played by Emu Creek on track 2 of CD 1, is a 1917 tune probably in the ilk of Going Back To Yarrawonga towards the close of world war 1. It reflects from afar on the golden home town of Bendigo. In this rendition for which the choir is noted, the sound of the picks and shovels are rung by a large cast triangle.
25 We Are Australian (Dobe Newton, Bruce Woodley) by Black Berry Jam. Jennie Simpson (vocals & guitar), Chris Lazzaro (vocals & banjo), Ray Simpson (didgeridoo & sticks), Declan Simpson (violin)
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