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Black Fella White Fella

Black Fella White Fella

by Neil Murray
Publication Date: 01/07/2012

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'This song came to me when I was living in Papunya in 1982. Here I was-in the minority as a whitefella working in a majority blackfella community-but I was having a great time. I was mixing in and getting on well with everyone. Especially the young fellas my own age. We played footy and music together. So with that and the truth of the experiences I was having in Papunya the song just came to me. It was like a simple but powerful message. I still wasn't sure though, so I showed it to Sammy Butcher. He said we (the Warumpi Band) should do it. We're all living together now-black and white, we gotta get along. Before we recorded it, our lead singer, George, suggested we include yellafella as well. Which we did, which was right because the song went further than just blackfellas and whitefellas, it had to include all peoples from all places and it didn't matter what colour they were.'
ISBN:
9780980794892
9780980794892
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Publication Date:
01-07-2012
Publisher:
One Day Hill Pty, Limited
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
230x230mm
Neil Murray

Maverick songman Neil Murray originally sprang from Victoria's western district, but in the late 1970s he set course for the Northern Territory, emerging at Papunya in 1980 as a founding member of the pioneering Warumpi Band, which over three albums (Big Name No Blankets, Go Bush and Too much Humbug) and twenty years of performing, thrust contemporary indigenous music into mainstream Australia, yielding such classic songs as My Island Home, Blackfella Whitefella, and Waru.

In 1995, Neil Murray was awarded the APRA song of the year for 'My Island Home' originally written for the Warumpi Band and rerecorded by Christine Anu. He lives in Melbourne.

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