My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

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My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:44 am

Found this on Youtube and thought oh Goody this should be beaut - well it is but it turned out to be not quite what I expected. Obviously a sense of humour was invoked here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86TKK81EwJ4


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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Vic Jefferies » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:45 pm

G'day Maureen,

Great to hear Dorothea read (recite?) her wonderful poem. Strange though to note the difference between this version and the generally accepted printed version of My Country. Apparently she was never altogether happy with the poem and wrote many versions. Similarly I have collected at least four "genuine accounts" of how she came to write the poem.

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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Neville Briggs » Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:17 pm

I thought that was wonderful Maureen. A touch of the old Scottish brrrogue there ;)

Wouldn't it be fascinating to hear Henry Lawson reciting The Faces in The Street or Banjo Paterson doing The Man from Ironbark. I wonder if they ever did recite their pieces ?
Is there a recording of C.J.Dennis reciting C.J.Dennis ? I would be extremely interested in those.



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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Peely » Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:58 pm

G'day Neville

Back in the 1930s, Paterson had his own radio program on the ABC in Sydney (there are details of some of his talks in the Song of the Pen collection). I remember either reading or hearing that the ABC had copies of these talks recorded in their archives and it is believed that some of these also included recordings of him reading/reciting his own poetry. The story goes that these have either been stolen or misplaced and have not seen the light of day since that time. It is sad that the people of Australia are no longer able to hear the voice of the Banjo for this reason. Hopefully, some time in the future, these may resurface again if they do actually exist.

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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Neville Briggs » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:33 pm

They would be gold now Peely.
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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Frank Daniel » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:09 pm

I have a cassette of Dorothea Mackellar reading her poem My Country.
I believe she was seventy four years of age at the time of recording.
It was the only poem she ever recorded.
The words and voice was that of the U-tube link from Maureen.
I'll see if I can find the tape, I think it had further information on it as well.
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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:24 pm

Here are 3 of my favourites Neville

C J Dennis and Henry Lawson both done by Poetry animations who do some wonderful video clips but don’t know if this the poets actual voice. And the third one is a favourite of mine “ The Women of the West Hope you like them

CJ Dennis ' The Play'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqZAlodOms

Henry Lawson 'One hundred and three" a particular stirring read - really good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-HdjKT ... re=related


The Women of the West - have no idea who is reading this but I like it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0MTudt- ... re=related

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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Neville Briggs » Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:03 pm

They are very interesting Maureen. The Women of the West, I thought was very well read ( even though I'm not a qualified judge :roll: ) and the photos were wonderful. It's because of women like that, that many of us are here today. My two grandmothers were in that lot.


Thanks for that Maureen.


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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Zondrae » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:16 pm

Heard on Macca today,

a new(?) recording someone has made of a song with the old recording of Dorothea Mackellar reciting her poem as the intro and sprinkled through here and there.
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Re: My Country - read by Dorothea McKellor

Post by Heather » Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:41 pm

I heard Dorothea on the ABC last week. Recognised her voice straight away because I'd seen the clip Maureen posted. Must be popular at the moment. Loved the way she rolled her rrrrrrs.

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