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| − | A gentleman musician from Gracemere, Queensland. Ray wrote many tunes. | + | Ray Rose (1936-2010). A gentleman musician from Gracemere, Queensland. Ray wrote many tunes. Highlights included having his songs recorded by Slim Dusty, Tom Maxwell, Brian Letton, Reg Poole, Dean Perrett, Nell Carter, Keith Jamieson and others. One of his tunes was used in an RM Williams advertisement. He won the Golden Gumleaf Bush Laureate Award for his book Bulldust and Ballads; for Book of the Year in 1996, and received five nomination for the 2011 Gold Guitar awards for Bush Ballad of The Year. He passed away in 2010. |
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| + | Ray Rose was a singer/guitarist and wrote quite a few songs, which were recorded by Slim Dusty and a couple of other country singers. | ||
| + | He ran a country style dance band in central Qld. When he wrote the two waltzes, he could not find a fiddle player in his area so came down to Brisbane and we went into the recording studio. He had them released on a 45 single which got a fair bit of air play in country radio stations until the CDs came out. | ||
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| + | "Meeking Rose Waltz". Roy Meeking was a train driver in central Queensland. A Bit of an identity but I Never found out anything about him as to why. | ||
| + | He ran coal trains past my in-laws farm. One of my neighbours heard the tune being played on our local station 4KQ in Brisbane and came over to tell me he also ran on the same train line before going to jail. The both of them later landed up in hospital next to each other with cancer. He survived and Meeking did not. | ||
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| + | "Waltz Of Memories", I don't think had any story to it. | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:29, 13 February 2025
Ray Rose (1936-2010). A gentleman musician from Gracemere, Queensland. Ray wrote many tunes. Highlights included having his songs recorded by Slim Dusty, Tom Maxwell, Brian Letton, Reg Poole, Dean Perrett, Nell Carter, Keith Jamieson and others. One of his tunes was used in an RM Williams advertisement. He won the Golden Gumleaf Bush Laureate Award for his book Bulldust and Ballads; for Book of the Year in 1996, and received five nomination for the 2011 Gold Guitar awards for Bush Ballad of The Year. He passed away in 2010.
The following from Bill Montgomery:
Ray Rose was a singer/guitarist and wrote quite a few songs, which were recorded by Slim Dusty and a couple of other country singers. He ran a country style dance band in central Qld. When he wrote the two waltzes, he could not find a fiddle player in his area so came down to Brisbane and we went into the recording studio. He had them released on a 45 single which got a fair bit of air play in country radio stations until the CDs came out.
"Meeking Rose Waltz". Roy Meeking was a train driver in central Queensland. A Bit of an identity but I Never found out anything about him as to why. He ran coal trains past my in-laws farm. One of my neighbours heard the tune being played on our local station 4KQ in Brisbane and came over to tell me he also ran on the same train line before going to jail. The both of them later landed up in hospital next to each other with cancer. He survived and Meeking did not.
"Waltz Of Memories", I don't think had any story to it.
Bill Montgomery
Related Tunes
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