Extra Tracks

Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files. Those originating on 78rpm discs are raw and no attempt to clean up the surface noise had been made although we have removed some loud cracks and bangs. Please note the previews are compressed files so the sound is not as good as that on the whole track.

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Dame Joan Hammond (1912-1996)

Joan Hammond's first sucesses were winning the women's golf championships in New South Wales in 1929, 1932, 1934 and 1935. In 1936 her golf friends raised money for her to study singing in Vienna. While striving to maintain her career during the early years of World War Two, she drove an ambulance in London during the Blitz. In 1941, she recorded the Puccini aria, Oh My Beloved Father, which sold more than a million records. She entertained troops and civilians during the war, even singing in underground air raid shelters and on battleships in northern Scotland. Returning to Australia in 1946, she resumed her career by singing all the major soprano roles in Europe, the United States and Australia. From 1975 she taught at the Victorian College of the Arts. She was the first artistic director of the Victoria State Opera and in 1974 she was created Dame of the British Empire.

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