Harmonica Riff Raff Blog
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Hello, there fellow riff raffers. Look out for feature articles, reviews of CDs, gigs, harmonicas, etc and links to audio which includes live performances, lessons, interviews & the world-renowned riff hits & bits.
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2h ago
Giddy Up I revisited my 1950’s Hohner Lone Star Rider and noticed two anomalies. Firstly, the six sided star is present (usually an indicator of pre WWII) and secondly, the label in the box suggests it was made in the 1930’s (4,500 men & 25,000,000 harmonicas per annum). One thing I’ve learnt on my harmonica ..read more
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1w ago
Fairlight Festivals 1971 Venue: 200 acre farm (Fairlight) four miles south of Mittagong on the way to Berrima NSW. Set in a gentle sloping clearing divided by a stream. One side set for camping the other music. Stage: An old Sydney tram elevated six feet off the ground with a twenty foot extension out the ..read more
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2w ago
Bring back the harmonica in schools. Teach them blues and country licks. Throw out the recorder, ukuleles and triangles! Just saying! Vine Vale School Tanunda (South Australia) Mouth Organ Band 1933 Bulimba (Queensland) State School Girls Mouth Organ Band 1939 Boys of the Buranda (Queensland) School Mouth Organ Band 1937 Orange Grove (New South Wales ..read more
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1M ago
Popping up in my research a few years back was evidence of the existence of a Jazz Master Chromatic. Victorian Laurie Smith evidently possessed one. A year after publishing this information, so did Canadian collector Doug Dawson. Where did he locate this Australian brand harmonica? Of all places in Sweden. Doug Dawson’s specimen. Recently I ..read more
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North wind rolling down my friends are leaving townI know they're waiting just for meOne more summer gone and one more winter songAnd one more time I tried to leave Wintersong (Quill/Tolhurst/Dubois) Country Radio’s follow up single to Gypsy Queen was the brilliant avant-garde Wintersong. Another co-write by Greg Quill and Kerryn Tolhurst, following on ..read more
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1M ago
Spectrum/Murtceps Daddy Cool The Dingoes Chain Country Radio Fraternity Mental As Anything John Farnham Band Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band Sid Rumpo Dynamic Hepnotics Western Flyer The Elks Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs Carson SCRA - Southern Contemporary Rock Assembly Galapagos Duck Langford Lever Stars Big Pig Snowdroppers Midnight Oil Mickey Finn Hoodoo Gurus Things Of ..read more
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2M ago
I’m sure most of you have heard of The Great Train Robbery of 1963 when the Roy Mail train from Glasgow to London was brought to a halt and robbed. Some of you may even be familiar with The Great Bookie Robbery of 1976 when six men stole between fourteen and sixteen million from bookmakers ..read more
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2M ago
Harmonikings of Melbourne - Noel Marshall (left), Frank Munro & Roy Cooper. Des Bettany Trio - Des Bettany (left) on chords, Des Grigg on melody, Hank Middendorp on Bass Bettany Trio - Dad & Boys (L to R: Des, Keith and Graham) The Harmonicaires - Byron and Murray Knipe and Kim van Dokkum Lionel Easton ..read more
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3M ago
1946 The Smilers Club 2BH began broadcasting in July of 1934. In 1936 The Barrier Miner newspaper acquired the proprietorship of the radio station and announced that, “they are now in the position to give the people of Broken Hill the most up-to-date and complete service in the form of news and entertainment.” (The Barrier ..read more
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3M ago
Victor de Lano. Left: Larry Adler with daughter Kate Lynn (2) in Oz. Right: Larry with two lads from the Melbourne Children’s Hospital. Guess who? Left: Don Chromatic Duo with John Don and 11 year old daughter Elaine (1949). Right: Master Walter (2years and 3 months) from Auburn, NSW. Brisbane unemployed (1938) Just three old ..read more