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[1] [2] "Spirit of the Anzacs" is the first taste of an album that has brought soldiers' letters to life in song. The project was inspired by Kernaghan's 2014 visit to the Australian War Memorial when he was shown archives of soldiers letters to family from the front lines. [ 3 ] "
Spirit of the Anzacs is the thirteenth studio album by Australian country singer Lee Kernaghan. It was released digitally and physically in Australia on March 13, 2015, through ABC Music . [ 1 ] A limited deluxe edition features four additional tracks plus a 64-page booklet that includes many of the letters, stories and images behind the songs.
This special 3-disc set has been specially compiled to take you on a musical journey through the hits and musical highlights of my career. Disc 1 features the very best of the 90s – from The Outback Club all the way through to the Hat Town album. Everything we recorded back then was on two-inch multitrack tape that gave the songs a special ...
The song "Waltzing Matilda", by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, is the almost national anthem [3] [4] to which the young Australian volunteers of Bogle's song march to war and return from war and which is played when the war is remembered. At the conclusion of Bogle's song, its melody and a few of its lyrics, with modifications, are incorporated.
Musician John Fogerty was surprised one day to find a song of his had ended up on what he described as "some schlocky cassette called Cruisin' Classics.This was surprising to him as he recounted in his book Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, he thought that they, meaning Creedence Clearwater Revival members, had the right to approve what went on to compilation albums. [11]
The song was given airplay in cinema advertisements in Australia by Ampol, an Australian Petrol Company, [3] with a 45rpm record sold by the company. "God Bless Australia" was broadcast in honour of Australia Day (26 January) in 1968 via various television channels. [ 4 ]
[3] The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In 1917 he published Songs of a Campaign which won the University of Adelaide's Bundey prize for poetry and established Gellert as the soldier-poet of the day. In eloquent poems such as 'Through a Porthole', 'Patience', 'The Burial', 'The Diggers' and 'Attack at Dawn', Gellert recorded ...
[1] [2] The British Secretary of State for War, Horatio Kitchener, appointed General William Birdwood, an officer of the British Indian Army, to the command of the corps and he furnished most of the corps staff from the Indian Army as well. Birdwood arrived in Cairo on 21 December 1914 to assume command of the corps. [3]