Cat. No. 2969: TEX MORTON ~ AUSTRALIA'S YODELLING BOUNDARY RIDER. LARRIKIN LRH 446.
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NEW ZEALAND BORN TEX MORTON (BORN ROBERT WILLIAM LANE ALSO KNOWN AS ROBERT TEX MORTON) IS CREDITED AS BEING THE "FATHER OF AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSIC" BEING THE FIRST ARTIST TO RECORD THIS STYLE OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. AS WELL AS BEING A SINGER AND SONGWRITER, TEX ALSO PERFORMED AS A VAUDEVILLIAN, ACTOR, TELEVISON HOST, TRAVELLING PERFORMER AND CIRCUS PERFORMER.
TEX RECORDED SOME "HILLBILLY SONGS" IN 1934 IN HIS NATIVE NEW ZEALAND IN WELLINGTON. THOSE, HOWEVER, WERE NOT COMMERCIALLY RELEASED. SOON AFTER, HE EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA APPARENTY INTENT ON A RECORDING CAREER. ON 25TH FEBRRUARY, 1936, TEX MADE HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL RECORDINGS CUTTING FOUR SONGS FOR COLUMBIA IN SYDNEY AND BEWTWEEN 1936 AND 1943, TEX RECORDED 93 SONGS WHICH WERE ISSUED FOR COLUMBIA'S REGAL GRAMOPHONE LABEL MAINLY ACCOMPANYING HIMSELF ON GUITAR. ON SOME LATER TRACKS, HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS BAND, THE ROUGH RIDERS AND A FEMALE SINGER "SISTER DORRIE" (DOROTHY CARROLL). THE PSEUDONYM WAS USED BECAUSE IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS TOTALLY FROWNED UPON FOR A FEMALE SINGER TO TRAVEL WITH A MALE BAND AND SO WITH THE USE OF THE PSEUDONYM IS WAS ASSUMED BY AN UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC THAT DOROTHY WAS TEX'S SISTER.
DURING THE LATE PART OF THE 1930s AND INTO THE 1940s, TEX GRADUALLY INCORPORATED AUSTRALIAN THEMES AND MOTIFS INTO SOME OF THE SONGS HE WROTE. THIS APPROACH WAS FOLLOWED BY OTHER AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY ARTISTS WHO FOLLOWED IN HIS FOOTSTEPS SUCH AS BUDDY WILLIAMS, SLIM DUSTY TIM McNAMARA AND MANY OTHERS LEADING TO A PARTICULAR GENRE OF COUNTRY MUSIC - THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH BALLAD. TEX DIED ON JULY 23, 1983.
TRACK LISTING: On The Range with "Covered Wagon": Covered Wagon Theme / My Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Wyoming Willie / Liebestraum (wtih Harry Thompson) / Wah Hoo / Closing Theme.
4BH Brisbane Radio Show: Introduction / Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (with Sisiter Dorrie).
Tex Morton Rodeo Broadcast: Introduction / When The Cactus Is In Bloom (with Sister Dorrie) / Rio Grande (monologue) / Conclusion.
"Covered Wagon": Opening Theme / South America Joe (with Harry Thompson) / Weeping Willow Tree / Texas In The Spring / Ragtime Cowboy Joe / closing Theme.
Tex Morton On The Air: Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Hobo Bill / Roll Along Covered Wagon.
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