Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974. It is the most compact hurricane or equivalent strength tropical cyclone on record in the Australian basin, with gale-force winds extending only 48 kilometres. Tracy killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage and destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of houses. Tracy left homeless more than 20,000 out of the 49,000 inhabitants of the city. A benefit concert at the Sydney Opera House in January 1975 raises $75,000 for victims of the Cyclone Tracy disaster. Under the musical direction of Tommy Tycho and performances by Brian Cadd & The Bootleg Family, Don Lane, William Shakespeare, Rolf Harris, Mary Jane Boyd, Colleen Hewitt, Barry Crocker, Paul Hogan and Winifred Atwell to name a few. Released by RCA M7 and Festival Records and produced by Roger Woodward, Robert Gunn. Here to download is the 1975 double album "Concert For Darwin" (SMX-44978) live at the Sydney Opera House.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Post 169 - Concert For Darwin LP
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974. It is the most compact hurricane or equivalent strength tropical cyclone on record in the Australian basin, with gale-force winds extending only 48 kilometres. Tracy killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage and destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of houses. Tracy left homeless more than 20,000 out of the 49,000 inhabitants of the city. A benefit concert at the Sydney Opera House in January 1975 raises $75,000 for victims of the Cyclone Tracy disaster. Under the musical direction of Tommy Tycho and performances by Brian Cadd & The Bootleg Family, Don Lane, William Shakespeare, Rolf Harris, Mary Jane Boyd, Colleen Hewitt, Barry Crocker, Paul Hogan and Winifred Atwell to name a few. Released by RCA M7 and Festival Records and produced by Roger Woodward, Robert Gunn. Here to download is the 1975 double album "Concert For Darwin" (SMX-44978) live at the Sydney Opera House.
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I seem to recall seeing this on TV at the time and you're right about it being a mish-mash of artists, but what a great cause and a true time capsule of the period, especially David Frost's jibes at Gough Whitlam and his globe trotting, which is somewhat deja vu with the Current PM :-)
Many thanks OZZIE : -) (see I remembered this time)
Here is the track list
THIS IS A VERY RARE VINYL SET /GATE-FOLD / NEAR MINT
CONCERT FOR DARWIN - LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
A VERY COLLECTABLE ALBUM SET.
RECORD1-SIDE1
STRIKE UP THE BAND-TOMMY TYCHO
FROST THEME-ORCH.
MONOLOGUE-DAVID FROST
BLACK AND WHITE RAG-WINIFRED ATWELL
MEDLEY:-WINIFRED ATWELL
DAY BY DAY - COLLEEN HEWITT
LISZT'S HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO.2- ISADORE GOODMAN
SIDE2:
LET GO-BRIAN CADD AND THE BOOTLEG FAMILY
VESTALAJUBA-DON SMITH
VILIA-JUNE BRONHILL
ONLY MAKE BELIEVE-DON SMITH&JUNE BRONHILL
TIJUANA BRASS MEDLEY:-TOMMY TYCHO
I CAN'T STOP MYSELF FROM LOVING YOU-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
RECORD2,SIDE1
CORNER OF THE SKY-BARRY CROCKER
NESSUN DORMA-BARRY CROCKER
MONOLOUGE-DAME JOAN HAMMOND
POLONAISE IN F SHARP MINOR-ROGER WOODWARD
IF HE WALKED INTO MY LIFE-TONI LAMOND
MONOLOGUE-I AM A MAN-DON LANE
RECORD2,SIDE2:
RHYTHM OF LIFE-CLARIE POOL SINGERS
MAN I LOVE-MARY JANE BOYD
MONOLOGUE-PAUL HOGAN
MONOLOGUE-McADAM-ROLF HARRIS
EULOGY-DAVID FROST
SONG FOR DARWIN-ROLF HARRIS.
I gratefully downloaded this album solely in order to hear again Mary Jane Boyd's "Man I Love". It has been many years since I have been able to enjoy Miss Boyd's exquisite voice. Her hauntingly beautiful version of this song has lived in my heart since I first heard it when this concert was originally telecast. What a talent! What a loss! She is missed!Thank you, Ozzie, for preserving an important slice of Australia's history and musical prestige.
I was the producer of the Opera House Concert for Darwin.
The LP was a limited edition and the masters were destroyed as was the video tape of the concert so that no-one could exploit the cause.
Yes Mary Jane was wonderful and performed at many concerts around the country that I produced.
It was devastating to lose her such a wondeful person and enormous talent.
It's gone 37 years since the Concert for Darwin but I remember watching it on TV as clear as if I watched it only last evening. That concert boosted our spirits after such a tragedy. I bought the album and still have it. It's in mint condition and I often play it. As a side track to this, can anyone please help me to find Rona Coleman who was "Eliza" in the JCW 1968-69 revival of "My Fair Lady?" I've lost contact with her. Thanks.
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