Audio; The Ode; Finest Hour, Tokyo Rose, marches & music

Military related songs & tunes	Type	Size

Lt-Col Patrick Pickett presents the 70 piece composite Army band. Photo by David Grant AUSTRALIAN Army Bands (AAB) have been the principal international performing guests at the 50th anniversary of the Japan Self Defence Force Marching Festival and Tattoo, in Tokyo, 2004. For six minutes and 10 seconds, the 70 piece composite band drawn from AAB Melbourne and AAB Kapooka, became the centerpiece of one of the world’s largest and most popular military band and marching festivals. The highly innovative music, marching and singing spectacular by the AAB was presented three times a day during the two-day event in the grounds of the Imperial Palace. Each performance featured a specially written fanfare and choreographed version of Waltzing Matilda and I still Call Australia Home.
I was only 19	.wav	173kb
Willie McBride short version	.wav	42kb
Willie McBride full version	.wav	229kb
Bless 'Em All, Siegfreid Line, Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major, (medley)	.wav	160kb
Lili Marlene	.wav	115kb
And the Band played Waltzing Matilda	.wav	296kb
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Tune only, no words	.mid	23kb
Pack up your troubles 1918 version and a bit scratchy	.wav	287kb
There'll be Blue Birds over the White Cliffs of Dover	.wav	121kb
It's just a brown slouch hat	.mp3	321kb
21 Guns. A tribute to the Light Horse	.mp3	461kb
Advance Australia Fair. Original version with British references.	.mp3	364kb
Chicken Man. A Vietnam era Super Hero ( of sorts)	.mp3	320kb
Vietnam War Correspondent Eric Bogle	.mp3	3,668kb

To protect the intellectual property (if and/or where it exists) of any Copyright holder of any audio file here they are deliberately of a lower quality than is required for reproduction and they have deliberately inserted small glitches in them. They have been chosen as they are the songs that the Diggers sang or that represent a grateful nation's thanks. They are unsuitable for sharing, enjoy them where they are.

'Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching?' is a national memorial song and a tribute to the ANZAC spirit of mateship, courage and sacrifice. The song is timeless and honours all Australians who have died in the service and defence of their country in war. It is by Peter Barnes. "Congratulations on your very professionally presented song, 'Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching?' It is most patriotic, stirring and respectfully thought provoking." Major General Peter Phillips AO MC (Retd) National President of the RSL. Click here to download a CD quality mp3 audio file of this stirring song. 2.7 megabytes in size.

The Tattoo and the other Regimental marches on this site in sample size come from the CD that contains them all in full and is available from the RAR Foundation. Note that the quality of the samples is well below that of the CD because I have compressed them to make them fast loading. They are .wav files in mono at 11megahertz so quality is affected. They are demonstration samples only. The RAR Foundation is the Copyright owner.