Time for proper music

Music - - Posted on August, 22 at 3:24 pm by Ken L

Enough with all the electronic nonsense and whiny singer songwriters and faggy psychadelic bands. Our age is crying out for solid old-fashioned values and it’s past time for a Peter Dawson revival.

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I couldn’t find ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ or ‘Old Father Thames’ but here are two other great songs to stir the soul.

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Aaahh they bring back memories of having breakfast before going to school, listening to the Hospital Hour on 2BL. That’s what Our ABC should be doing more of now … bringing quality music like Peter Dawson to the old folk grin

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7 Responses to “Time for proper music”

  1. bilko Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    us old folk have plenty of quality music to listen to my Old blue eyes LP’s still get a spin plus Glen Miller and Dave Brubeck, by the way who is Peter Dawson, the one I know was a school teacher cheers

  2. philip travers Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    As a young in the fifties,I have heard pf Dawson,but reading through a Pensioner Newspaper a older group of women called The Sex Pistols is on tour.Dawson’s quality of voice and range reminds me of Riders on a Storm.Still a very pleasant sound,although the words begin to mean less than pleasantries.No doubt the technically proficient could interchange the sounds of Dawson with the pleasantries of Riders.Singing Dawson and Riders is the joy of sound and lungs.

  3. Ken L Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    “Who is Peter Dawson?” Aaahh, I’m reminded of the bloke who walks in front of newly elected popes, burning a bit of rope or something. Sic transit gloria mundi.

    Peter Dawson (31 January 1882 - 27 September 1961) was an Australian bass-baritone who gained worldwide renown and popularity through his recitals and recordings of concert song, in a career spanning nearly 60 years.

    Although his repertoire included a great deal of popular and light music, Dawson possessed a remarkable and impeccable vocal technique combined with an attractive dark timbre, an ideal balance of diction and vocal placing, a strong but integrated ‘attack’ without resort to intrusive aspirates, and a near-perfect ability to manage ornaments and roulades. These qualities probably derived from his studies with Sir Charles Santley, the great English baritone of the Victorian era. If Dawson’s interpretations were not profoundly penetrating, they were not shallow either, and in his chosen field of English concert repertoire of the vigorous, manly, outdoors’ kind, he remains unequalled. The tremendously high technical quality of his Handel singing sets an unmatched standard, too.

    In 1984, Dawson was chosen by the Guinness Book of Recorded Sound as one of the top 10 singers on disc of all time, alongside such luminaries as Elvis Presley and Enrico Caruso.

  4. Lang Mack Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    also luminaries such as John McCormack and Garry Glitter.

  5. jane Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Ah, The Floral Dance. How well I remember Peter Dawson belting it out on ABC radio when I was a kid. I reckon he gave Old Man River a run for his money, too.

  6. clarencegirl Says:
    August 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Aaahh they bring back memories of having breakfast before going to school, listening to the Hospital Hour on 2BL. That’s what Our ABC should be doing more of now … bringing quality music like Peter Dawson to the old folk

    Couldn’t agree more, Ken L.
    Folk in nursing homes around Australia would probably love an hour a day to stroll down memory lane.

  7. bilko Says:
    August 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 am

    Thank you ken l I feel a little humble now

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