Saturday, 19 January 2013

Going Walkabout

As we head into Australia Day long weekend, which sees Kaspar and I making tracks down to Melbourne, I thought a look at some discs from the past that made us aware where exactly in the world we stood and how we got here, and what awaited us when we arrived..
Staying with my father in the outskirts of Melbourne usually uncovers some treasure from the local ops, and am hoping that in the very least to expand Kaspar's ever increasing Hot Wheels box..
This collection also contains one of my favourite spins - Rod Roger's 'Island Songs of The Great Barrier Reef' - Hayman Island never sounded so good...


The Australian - Bob King Crawford - RCA Victor - date unknown

Souvenir of Australia - John Clements - HMV - date unkown

Beneath the Southern Cross - Wayne Senior et al - World Record Club - post 1964

Beneath the Southern Cross - Wayne Senior et al - HMV - post 1964

This Australia - Leonard Teale et al - CBS - date unknown

Songs and Sounds of Australia - Dennis Gibbons et al - W & G - 1973?

Corroboree - John Antill & Grand Canyon Suite - Ferde Grofe
World Record Club - date unknown

Wombat Track - Mary Sunders & Drew Daniell - W & G - date unknown

Walkabout - Lionel Long - Columbia - date unknown

Sign On with Captain Cook - Kenneth Neville - Music For Pleasure - date unknown

January the Twentysixth - Bob Young - Bank of NSW - post 1967

All Abound for SydneyTown - Captain Crabbe and the Garden Gnomes
Bunyip - date unknown

Bolters, Bushrangers & Duffers - Gary Shearston - CBS - date unknown

The Bold Bushrangers - Lionel Long - Columbia - date unknown

The Highwayman - Edmond Samuels - Columbia - date unknown

The Young Camp Stockman - Buster Noble - M7 Records - date unknown

Around The Boree Log Vol. 2 - Kevin Brennan - Festival - date unknown

Australian Folk Songs - Burl Ives - Summit - date unknown

Australia And All That Jazz - John Sangster - post 1970

Water Dwellers - John Robertson - RCA Victor - date unknown

Islands of The Great Barrier Reef - Rod Rogers with The Tropic Island Serenaders
W & G - date unknown

Paradise Volume One - John Sangster - Trinity - 1977

Let's finish with an occasional visitor to these shores on her first visit..

Royal Progress - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II & husband
Radiola Records - 1954








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