As an avid lover of older style music I am constantly reminded of obscure tunes and songs that I and very few others know. It happened this week when Elise Archer was elected to State Palrliament.
The song, ‘I’ve Got A Bimbo Down In the Bamboo Isles’, suddenly,and I mean,suddenly,came in to my mind.
Now the mind, and music, are strange things.The subconscious is lurked in,by all kinds of mysterious creations,one of them being music.If you want proof of this,go to an aged care home where elderly people have memory difficulties and watch the reaction to performance of music over one hundred years old.The response can be amazing.
Anyway, I have this reaction where events trigger songs.When the Burnie fox was knocked down by a truck outside of Burnie, much to the gratitude of the Fox Task Force and its funding, I tried to get Tim Cox, he of pub music fame, to play the tune ‘Just In Time’ for the then minister of the FTF,Brian Green.
I’ve got a problem with the ABC and music.I’ve got a nasty suspicious mind the that the ABC is trying to paddock us in to a particular musical mind set.For years I have been asking,’why can’t we have just one program a week,dedicated to quality vintage music,for quality vintage people,with a quality vintage presenter’.I have never received an answere to this question.
There is a chap called Bill Rhyner who resides in Brisbane who compiles a play list for the ABC local radio stations all over the country.
If that isn’t mono culturism then I don’t know what is. He doesn’t reply to letters either.
Perhaps TT readers would like to put songs to news events.Perhaps somebody on radio would like to do something similar.Quality outrageous,or don’t things run to that sort of thing in Australia thesedays.
Philip Lowe
