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| Sounds of Australia | |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | National Film and Sound Archive |
| First awarded | 2007 |
| Website | nfsa.gov.au/sounds-australia |
The Sounds of Australia, formerly the National Registry of Recorded Sound, is the National Film and Sound Archive's selection of sound recordings which are deemed to have cultural, historical and aesthetic significance and relevance for Australia. It was founded in 2007.
History
The National Registry of Recorded Sound was established in 2007[1] by the National Film and Sound Archive, to encourage appreciation of the diversity of sounds recorded in Australia, ever since the first phonographs made by the US Edison Manufacturing Company were available in Australia in the mid-1890s.[2]
The earliest recording in the archive is "The Hen Convention", a song recorded some time before 15 January 1897, by an amateur sound recordist called Thomas Rome, of Warrnambool, Victoria, who imported the most modern equipment available from the US. The song features the voice of John James Villiers, also of Warrnambool. It is a novelty song, featuring imitations of sounds made by chickens.[3][4]
Other early sound recordings include Aboriginal Tasmanian women's songs (1899),[5] Spencer and Gillen's 1901 recordings on wax cylinder of Arrernte, Anmatyerr, Kaytetye, Warumungu, Luritja and Arabana peoples of central Australia[6] (added in 2019[7]), and Ernest Shackleton talking about his polar expedition in 1910.[5]
Description
As part of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), it is part of a "living archive", to share in many ways and to keep for future generations.[8]
Each year, the Australian public nominates new sounds to be added with final selections determined by a panel of industry experts and NFSA curators. There are usually about ten recordings added each year. The recordings represent significant achievements in the way we have recorded the sounds of our history and memory.[2]
The criteria for nomination are wide: "they can be popular songs, advertising jingles, famous speeches, radio broadcasts, or any other sound recordings" – but they must be Australian, and they must be more than 10 years old.[5][9]
Recordings
In this table, "2007a" refers to the 2007 Foundation List (entries chosen before official voting began), while "2007b" refers to the first of the annual registry additions, also in 2007.
| Recording or collection | Performer or agent | Release year | Addition year | NFSA Title No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Hen Convention" Earliest extant Australian sound recording |
John James Villiers | c. 1896 | 2007a | 452097 |
| "Chant Vénitien" | Dame Nellie Melba | 1904 | 2007a | 301462 |
| ”The Landing of the Australian Troops in Egypt”[A] | 1915 | 2007a | 229758 | |
| "Along the Road to Gundagai" | Peter Dawson | 1931 | 2007a | 332353 |
| "Give a Little Credit To Your Dad"/"Lonesome For You Mother Dear" | Buddy Williams | 1939 | 2007a | 190438 |
| "Swanston St Shamble"/"Two Day Jag" | Graeme Bell's Dixieland Band | 1944 | 2007a | 232811 |
| Tribal Music of Australia | Indigenous Australians from the Yirrkala district in Arnhem Land; recorded by A. P. Elkin | 1953 | 2007a | 242999 |
| "She's My Baby" | Johnny O'Keefe | 1960 | 2007a | 291386 |
| 'Kerr's cur' speech | Gough Whitlam | 1975, Nov. 11 | 2007a | 156392 |
| "Down Under" | Men At Work | 1981 | 2007a | 337398 |
| Fanny Cochrane Smith's Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs | Fanny Cochrane Smith, recorded by Horace Watson | 1899, 1903 | 2007b | 500445 |
| "My South Polar Expedition" | Sir Ernest Shackleton | 1910 | 2007b | 562537 |
| Dad and Dave from Snake Gully First episode |
George Edwards, and others | 1937, May 31 | 2007b | 737158 |
| "The Majestic Fanfare" ABC radio news theme |
Queen's Hall Light Orchestra; Charles Williams, conductor | 1943 | 2007b | 737182 |
| "Maranoa Lullaby" | Harold Blair | 1950 | 2007b | 245797 |
| Corroboree | Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Sir Eugene Goossens, conductor; John Antill, composer | 1950 | 2007b | 297286 |
| Jack Luscombe oral history | Jack Luscombe; recorded by John Meredith | 1953 | 2007b | 737269 |
| "Friday on My Mind" | The Easybeats | 1966 | 2007b | 258900 |
| "(I'm) Stranded" | The Saints | 1976 | 2007b | 322350 |
| "Jailanguru Pakarnu" | Warumpi Band | 1983 | 2007b | 244115 |
| "Country Gardens" | Percy Grainger | 1919 | 2008 | 510950 |
| "Waltzing Matilda" | John Collinson, tenor; Russell Callow, piano | 1926 | 2008 | 283469 |
| The 1930 Australian XI: Winners of the Ashes | Don Bradman, Bill Woodfull, Clarrie Grimmett, Alan Kippax, Stan McCabe, Tim Wall | 1930 | 2008 | 266765 |
| "The Aeroplane Jelly Song" | Joy King | 1938 | 2008 | 402848, 281850 |
| Theme from Blue Hills ("Pastorale") | New Century Orchestra; Sidney Torch, conductor; Ronald Hanmer, composer | 1949 | 2008 | 503205 |
| "A Pub with No Beer" | Slim Dusty | 1957 | 2008 | 190647 |
| Irkanda IV | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; John Hopkins, conductor; Peter Sculthorpe, composer | 1967 | 2008 | 332275 |
| Bird and Animal Calls of Australia | Recorded by Harold J Pollock | 1968 | 2008 | 255276 |
| "Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)" | Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs | 1972 | 2008 | 291714 |
| "We Have Survived" | No Fixed Address | 1981 | 2008 | 210397 |
| London recordings | Newcastle Steelworks Band; Albert Baile, conductor | 1924 | 2009 | 560469 |
| "Happy Little Vegemites" | Betty Parker, Stephen Parker, Julia Parker and Linda Marcy | 1959 | 2009 | 537271 |
| Smoky Dawson and the Adventure of The Singing Bullet | Smoky Dawson | 1955 | 2009 | 281755 |
| "My Country" | Read by Dorothea Mackellar | 1958 | 2009 | 328116 |
| Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under | Georgia Lee | 1962 | 2009 | 511557 |
| In the Head the Fire | South Australian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Singers, and other soloists and vocalists; John Hopkins, conductor; Nigel Butterley, composer | 1966 | 2009 | 323123 |
| Lionel Rose wins the World Title | Ron Casey | 1968 | 2009 | 283495 |
| "I Am Woman" | Helen Reddy | 1972 | 2009 | 619633 |
| The Loner | Vic Simms | 1973 | 2009 | 757646 |
| "Treaty" | Yothu Yindi | 1991 | 2009 | 226648 |
| "Hinkler's Message to Australia"/"Incidents of My Flight" | Bert Hinkler | 1928 | 2010 | 267488 |
| "Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip and Blanket" | Tex Morton | 1936 | 2010 | 365991 |
| Announcement of the declaration of World War II | Robert Menzies | 1939, Sep. 3 | 2010 | 188388 |
| Announcement of war with Japan | John Curtin | 1941, Dec. 8 | 2010 | 677049 |
| "Bye Bye Baby" | Col Joye | 1959 | 2010 | 271642 |
| Pick a Box | Bob and Dolly Dyer | 1963, Aug. 20 | 2010 | 569 |
| Just the Beginning | Don Burrows Quartet | 1971 | 2010 | 263853 |
| "Eagle Rock" | Daddy Cool | 1971 | 2010 | 300956 |
| Opening concert of the Sydney Opera House | Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor; Birgit Nilsson, soprano | 1973, Sep. 29 | 2010 | 766280 |
| Commentary of the 4 x 100 men's medley relay final at the Moscow Olympics | Norman May | 1980, Jul. 24 | 2010 | 750967 |
| "We Are Going" | Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) | 1986 | 2010 | 699094 |
| Rebetika Songs | Apodimi Compania | 1987 | 2010 | 138939 |
| "From Little Things Big Things Grow" | Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody | 1993 | 2010 | 244410 |
| Redfern Park speech | Paul Keating | 1992, Dec. 10 | 2010 | |
| Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits | Alfred Cort Haddon and others | 1898 | 2011 | 8879 |
| "The Sailors" | Stiffy and Mo | 1927 | 2011 | 253375 |
| Ken Howard calls the Melbourne Cup | Ken Howard | 1941, 1952[B] | 2011 | 338699 |
| The maiden parliamentary speeches of Dame Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney | Dame Enid Lyons, Dame Dorothy Tangney | 1943–1944 | 2011 | 483285, 483102 |
| The Art of the Prima Donna | Dame Joan Sutherland | 1960 | 2011 | 321750 |
| "I'll Never Find Another You" | The Seekers | 1964 | 2011 | 82220 |
| Living in the 70's | Skyhooks | 1974 | 2011 | 263933 |
| Report on Cyclone Tracy, Darwin | Mike Hayes and Bruce Grundy | 1974 | 2011 | |
| "I Should Be So Lucky" | Kylie Minogue | 1987 | 2011 | 376096 |
| Voss | Australian Opera Chorus, Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Stuart Challender, conductor; Geoffrey Chard, Marilyn Richardson and other soloists; Richard Meale, composer; David Malouf, libretto | 1987 | 2011 | 230032 |
| "The Black Watch" | Percy Herford | c. 1907 | 2012 | 778653 |
| Sydney recordings | Queenie and David Kaili | 1927—1932 | 2012 | |
| Grace Gibson Productions radio serials | Various artists, produced by Grace Gibson | 1944—c.1982 | 2012 | |
| The Luise Hercus Collection, AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive | Dr Luise A Hercus | 1962—1997 | 2012 | |
| "Royal Telephone" | Jimmy Little | 1963 | 2012 | 319442 |
| Patrol from Da Nang | Tim Bowden | 1966 | 2012 | |
| A Track Winding Back | Barry Humphries and Dick Bentley | 1972 | 2012 | 1063868 |
| "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" | AC/DC | 1975 | 2012 | 291607 |
| Tender Prey | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | 1988 | 2012 | 425260 |
| Aether | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Sounds_of_Australia