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"The Drover's Boy" is a song by Ted Egan.
Songs on the album (all composed by Ted Egan):
Song title | Performer(s) |
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1. The Drover's Boy | Ted Egan |
2. A Bunch of Damned Whores | Nerys Evans, Margret Roadknight, Geraldine Doyle, Margot Moir |
3. Mary Broad | Nerys Evans |
4. God's Police | Ted Egan |
5. Truganini | Nerys Evans |
6. Kitty Buchanan | Nerys Evans |
7. Alyandabu | Ted Egan |
8. A Song for Grace | Nerys Evans |
9. Bush Woman | Ted Egan |
10. The Shearer's Wife | Nerys Evans |
11. She's Australian | Ted Egan |
12. The Rouseabout | Nerys Evans |
13. Granny | Ted Egan |
14. Survivors | Ted Egan |
Egan wrote a book based on the story of the song; The Drover's Boy. [1] The jacket description reads:
The Drover's Boy has been collected in:
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Bob Marchant was winner of Sir John Sulman Prize in 1988 and joint winner in 1987.Egan saw a potential movie in the story of The Drover's Boy and commissioned Cinevest Limited to find potential backers. A prospectus was issued in 1995 [3] The funds raised by Cinevest and Egan personally, after pre-production costs were sufficient to capture extensive footage of outback cattle movements on high quality film, but insufficient to guarantee completion of the full-length movie, so the project was abandoned.
In 2015 a hybrid-documentary based on The Drover's Boy song was released. The short-film, with a run time of 11 minutes, was directed by Margaret McHugh and produced by Lyn Norfor and has been screened at numerous film festivals. [4] [5]
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