Jack Guthridge
Jack Guthridge (1916-), Horsham, Vic provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive, collected by Alan Musgrove.
There is a recording of Jack Guthridge interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the National Library of Australia in Canberra, from Dec 1996. In it, "Jack Gutheridge, born 1916, in Horsham, Vic., talks about his family background; Army service, including his time in Malaya, on the Burma railway; farming; marriage; working as a shearer; his mother buying a second-hand Mession accordion; learning to play aged 14; father's death; father playing various instruments and brothers also playing; playing style on accordion; the dance halls being packed for dances; the effect of TV and demise of the dance halls; instruments played in the band; guitarists in the band, back before 1940s."
