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"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. The song describes war as futile and gruesome, and criticises its glorification. This is exemplified in the song by the account of a young Australian who is maimed during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. The ...
The Family Car Songbook (1983) presents a "translation" of the song into an "American" version, using the same tune. [142] Tom Waits' 1976 song "Tom Traubert's Blues" incorporates elements of "Waltzing Matilda". [143] Australian composer Harry Sdraulig's "Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda" (2020) was composed for Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott. [144]
Eric Bogle (born 23 September 1944) is an Australian folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25 to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of topics and have been performed by many artists.
Bogle wrote the song 'And the band played Waltzing Matilda' in 1971 as an oblique comment on the Vietnam war but instead referencing Australian involvement in Gallipoli. The song became a hit overseas in the mid 70s and has since won awards, been covered many times and been voted as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.
The evocation of family is the song's most important ingredient. Kelly's own large family gathers each Christmas Eve to sing carols. Bella O'Grady, a 27-year-old woman who moved to New York and attended a Kelly concert in New York this fall for a taste of home, said “How to Make Gravy” always evokes warm feelings of holiday celebrations.
Her song So Long was played by the Australian Light Horse as the first wave embarked on the Gallipoli campaign. [8] [9] The song was also selected by Australian entertainers despatched to entertain troops. [10] She married Herbert Glasson in 1893 [4] and wrote 'Love is a fadeless flower' while heavily pregnant with his child.
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during World War I .
At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula ...