All Folk Songs
on Australia Side 1
Click Go The Shears
Waltzing Matilda
The Overlander
On the Banks of the Condamine
The Old Bark Hut
Bold Jck Donahue
Botany Bay Side 2 The Lime Juice Tub
Moreton Bay
The Wild Colonial Boy
My Old Black Billy
Wild Rover No More
The Dying Stockman
BOLD TOMMY PAYNE
Australian Folk Song
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I've read that Rolf Harris' version of Waltzing
Matilda is the best there is, and I'll agree it's pretty good,
and would have surpassed my old No. 1 favorite by Burl Ives, but
ever since I've had this album, William Clauson rates as my
all-time favorite Waltzing Matilda. Unfortunately, we played
it so much it skips, but we probably would have chosen Bold Tommy
Payne to represent this album online anyway, since there are few
versions of it online. There is one where the location is
Smithfield -- but that is not the name William Clauson is saying
in this song. If anyone can figure that out, please email
us and we will fill in the blank. ~ Reely
WILLIAM CLAUSON began studying
music at the age of four. The youngest student at the conservatory,
he studied violin, voice and composition. Upon completion of his formal
education he gave up violin to study the guitar which provided him with a
greater interest. He made several movies, including "The Wistful
Widow of Wagon Gap," with Marjorie Main and Abbot and Costello, but then
decided that ballad singing, and not acting was to his career. A true
troubador, William Clauson's widespread engagements have taken him to Mexico
(where he was on the faculty of Jurarez Academy of Music), Span, Great Britain,
North America, the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Italy, France, the West
Indies, Malay, Indonesia, Hon Kong, Manila, Honolulu, and of course, Australia
and New Zealand. ~ from album cover of Australia: William Clauson sings Waltzing Matilda and
other Australian Songs