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A collection of soundtracks to Aboriginal movies.
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Album formats
- 10": 10 inch vinyl records were played at 45 or 33 1/3 rounds per minute (rpm). The former could hold 9, the latter 12 minutes of music per side.
- 7": 7 inch records (often referred to as 45s) were played at 45 rpm or 33 1/3 rpm, with about 4:30 or 6 minutes of music per side.
- LP: Long play, is a vinyl record played at 33 1⁄3 rpm with a 12 or 10-inch diameter.
- EP: Extended play, are vinyl records that allowed two or even three songs on each side.
Shadow Of The Boomerang
- Released
- 1960
- Tracks
- Shadow Of The Boomerang
Walkabout
- Released
- 1971
- Tracks
CD/side 1
- Walkabout (Main Title)
- The Children
- Stranded
- Survival Test
- The Journey
- The Three Of Us
CD/side 2
- Together At Sunset
- Back To Nature
- Cliffhanger
- Walkabout (End Title)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
- Released
- 1978
- Tracks
- The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith (side A)
- Gilda (side B)
Wrong Side of the Road
- Released
- 14 June 1981
- Tracks
CD/side 1
- We Have Survived (No Fixed Address)
- Get a Grip (No Fixed Address)
- The Vision (No Fixed Address)
- Black Mans Rights (No Fixed Address)
- Greenhouse Holiday (No Fixed Address)
- The Vision (alt version; No Fixed Address)
- Genocide (Us Mob)
- Wrong Side of the Road (Us Mob)
- Suicidal Contemplation (Us Mob)
- Sunshine (Us Mob)
- Tough Living (Us Mob)
- Survive (Us Mob)
CD/side 2
- Genocide
- Wrong side of the road
- Suicidal contemplation
- Sunshine
- Tough living
- Survive
- Notes
Side 1 is by No Fixed Address, side 2 by Us Mob.
Quigley Down Under
- Released
- 1990
- Tracks
- Main Title
- The Fight
- The Redcoats Move On
- The Arrival
- Quigley Gets Beat Up
- The Stabbing
- Desert Trek
- Native Montage
- Cora's Story
- Marston's Attack
- Royus Interrupts
- The Baby
- Dingo Attack
- The Fire
- Under the Boat
- Quigley & Cora
- The Gift
- The Attack
- The Capture
- After the Gunfight / Freedom
- The Aborigines Return
- Matthew Quigley / End Credits
Bedevil
- Released
- 1993
- Tracks
- Mr Chuck
- Title Sequence
- The Swamp
- Young Danny Robs The Shop
- Harmless Island Travelogue
- Dangerous Island Travelogue
- Young Danny Goes To The Cinema
- Young Danny Wrecks The Cinema
- The G.I. Revealed
- Choo Choo Choo Choo
- 'The Spirits'
- Ghost Train
- Haunted Kangaroo Hunt
- Haunting Spirits
- Train Of Terror
- Lovin' The Spin I'm In
- Imelda & Minnie's Stories
- Spiro's Story
- Minnie & Beba Appear
- Imelda's Nightmare
- Frieda's Story
- Minnie & Beba Dance
- The Nightmare Ends
- End Titles
Blackfellas
- Released
- 1993
- Tracks
- Blackfellas Theme - Opening Titles (David Milroy)
- Camp Theme - Opening Titles (David Milroy)
- Is The Man Guilty? (Mark Bin Bakar)
- Waru (Fire) (Warumpi Band)
- Dancing In The Moonlight (Coloured Stone)
- From The Bush (Warumpi Band)
- Aching In My Body (Lorrae Coffin)
- Last Kiss (Donna Atkins)
- Breadline (Neil Murray)
- When A Man Loves A Woman (Mark Bin Bakar)
- Lonely Life (Coloured Stone)
- Our Love Will Never Die (Donna Atkins)
- My Island Home (Warumpi Band)
- No Fear (Warumpi Band)
- Gotta Be Strong (Warumpi Band)
- Blackfellas Theme - Closing Titles (David Milroy)
Buried Country
- Released
- 2000
- Tracks
CD/side 1
- Jimmy Little - Royal Telephone - (1963)
- Olive & Eva - Old Rugged Hills - (1955)
- Black Allan Barker - Take Me Back - (1983)
- Brown Bros - Black & White Cat - (1976)
- Georgia Lee - Downunder Blues - (1962)
- Assang Bros - Just A Closer Walk With Thee - (1965)
- Jimmy Little - Shadow Of The Boomerang - (1960)
- Dougie Young - Cut A Rug - (1965)
- George Bracken - Blue Jean Rock - (1959)
- Candy Williams - Oh, Lonesome Me - (1979)
- Wilma Reading - That’s How I Go For You - (1961)
- Lionel Rose - Jackson’s Track - (1972)
- Auriel Andrew - Truck Driving Woman - (1970)
- Col Hardy - Blacktracker - (1978)
- Lionel Rose - I Thank You - (1969)
- Vic Simms - Stranger In My Country - (1973)
- Vic Simms - Get Back Into The Shadows - (1973)
- Country Outcasts - Streets Of Old Fitzroy - (1981)
- Country Outcasts - Jackie-jackie - (1981)
- Maisie Kelly - My Home In The Valley - (1999)
- Country Outcasts - Blue Gums Calling Me Back Home - (1981)
- Bobby McLeod - Wayward Dreams - (1988)
- Black Allan Barker - Run, Dingo, Run - (1983)
- Bobby McLeod - The Resurrection - (1988)
CD/side 2
- Herb Laughton - Ghan To The Alice - (1984)
- Galarrwuy Yunupingu - Gurindji Blues - (1971)
- Wilga Williams - Arnhem Land Lullaby - (1979)
- Bob Randall - Brown Skin Baby - (1984)
- Gus Williams - Old Aboriginal Stockman - (1994)
- Ernie Bridge - Helicopter Ringer - (1980)
- Jim Ridgeway - Ticket To Nowhere - (1980)
- Roger Knox & Euraba - Streets Of Tamworth - (1984)
- Roger Knox & Euraba - Koori Rose - (1984)
- Country Shades - Home-made Didjeridoo - (1986)
- Roger Knox & Euraba - Goulburn Jail - (1988)
- Mac Silver - Malabar Mansion - (1988)
- Mop & The Drop-outs - Brisbane Blacks - (1982)
- Bill Wellington - The Night Owl - (1985)
- Warumpi Band - Jailanguru Pakarnu - (1984)
- Mills Sisters - Arafura Pearl - (1987)
- Kevin Gunn - Down By Banjo Bore - (1991)
- Archie Roach - Took The Children Away - (1990)
- Tiddas - Inside My Kitchen - (1992)
- Troy Cassar-daley - Proud Young Man - (1990)
- Jimmy Little - Yorta Yorta Man - (1995)
One Night The Moon
- Released
- 2001
- Tracks
- Opening Theme
- Flinders Theme
- One Night The Moon
- Moon Child
- The Gathering
- Now Listen Here
- This Land Is Mine
- The March Goes On/The Gathering 2
- Spirit Of The Ancients
- What Do You Know
- Carcass/The Gathering 3
- Night Shadows
- Black And White
- Moment Of Death
- Hunger
- Unfinished Business
- Spirit Of The Ancients
- Moody Broody
- Little Bones
- Oh Breathe On Me
- Moonstruck
Serenades
- Released
- 2001
- Tracks
- Peydayesh Encounter
- Conception
- Mother
- Jila's Baptism
- Kooch Journey
- Rainman's Death
- Shir Lion
- Eid-E-Fetr Feast of Fetr
- A Lover in Sin
- To Whatever Measure
- Henna
- Raaz Mystery
- Attan Dance
- Matrimony to Mourn
- Matrimony to Escape
- Jila's Escape
- To Dream
- Water Soil and Fire
- Serenades
- Neeyayesh Prayer
Yolngu Boy
- Released
- 2001
- Tracks
CD/side 1
- Treaty (Yothu Yindi)
- Neva Mend (NoKTuRNL)
- Gapu (Yothu Yindi)
- Surrender (Kelli Howell)
- Ghost Spirits (Yothu Yindi)
CD/side 2
- Walking
- Kakadu Part 4
- Botj's spirit in water & Botj's spirit flies
- Opening sequence
- Botj on the gangway
- Turtle Hunt
- Botj and the community
- Kakadu Part 1 & 2
- Goanna Hunt
- The Canoe
- Baru
- Closer
Walkabout
- Released
- 2001
- Tracks
- Walkabout
- The Children
- Stranded
- Night in the Outback
- Survival Test/The Journey
- The Three of Us
- Together at Sunrise
- The Deserted Settlement/The Final Dance
- Back to Nature
- They Might Be Giants (Main Title/The Game's Afoot)
- Moviola
- The Chase
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Curioser and Curioser/You've ...
- The Betsy (Main Title/Love Theme
- The Corn Is Green
- Until September
- Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Main Title/The Kidnap/The Ransom/End Title)
Black And White
- Released
- 2002
- Tracks
- Ceduna Beach
- The Day at the Office
- The Defender
- The Verdict
- Max Stuart's Story
- La Belle Francoise I, III, V, VI, VII, XII (Mozart)
- Walk to the Gallows
- Young Rupert
- Prosecutor's Story Part 1
- Prosecutor's Story Part 2
- The Courtroom
- Girl on the Beach
- Justice Don't Come Quick
Rabbit Proof Fence
- Released
- 2002
- Tracks
- Jigalong
- Stealing The Children
- Unlocking The Door
- The Tracker
- Running To The Rain
- On The Map
- A Sense Of Home
- Go Away Mr. Evans
- Moodoo's Secret
- Gracie's Recapture
- Crossing The Salt Pan
- The Return. Parts 1, 2 and 3
- Ngankarrparni (Sky Blue - reprise)
- The Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Cloudless
The Tracker
- Released
- 1 August 2002
- Tracks
- The Wide Open Spaces [instrumental]
- Far Away Home
- Trouble Coming
- Approaching [instrumental]
- My People
- After the Valley of Sorrow [instrumental]
- All Men Choose the Path They Walk
- Walk to Destiny [instrumental]
- The Chain
- A Spear [instrumental]
- The Contradiction
- Life Matters
- Friction [instrumental]
- Gungalaira
- The Hanging Tree [instrumental]
- My History
- The Drowning [instrumental]
- Hope Always [instrumental]
- Notes
Soundtrack to the movie The Tracker. Songs performed by Archie Roach, composed by Graham Tardif, lyrics written by Rolf de Heer.
"The moment Archie sang the first line during a studio rehearsal, Rolf and I just looked at each other. We knew we had it." —Graham Tardif
Where can I get 'The Tracker' soundtrack CD?
Unfortunately the CD "has been deleted in 2005" according to Warner/Mushroom, the last distributors. This means that it is no longer produced. Your only chance to get a copy is the second hand market. Or get the digital album from iTunes (see link below cover image).
Australian Rules
- Released
- 14 July 2003
- Tracks
- Opening Credits
- Training
- Pickles Rides Out
- Clarence and Blacky
- On the Boat
- Darcy's Gents
- Fantasy Line-Up
- Ruck Training
- In Pickles' Bedroom
- Grand Final First Half
- Mum's Tactics
- Dumby At Half Time
- Grand Final Second Half
- What I Done To Her - Tex, Don & Charlie
- Under the Pier
- Best On Ground Announcement
- Pickles Torches Darcy's Gents
- The Shooting
- Mourning Outside the Pub
- Stones At House
- Walking To Dumby
- The Funeral
- End Titles
Jindabyne
- Released
- 2006
- Tracks
- The rocks
- Jindabyne fair
- Body drop
- Claire on the road
- Mirror
- Morning fishing
- Stuart and Claire
- Power lines
- Nukkanya
- Night river
- So Soft
- Going to Susan's
- Welcome dance
- The way that I love you
- The humming way
- Troitsa bratya
- Everything's turning to white (Bonus track)
Aboriginal Rules
- Released
- 2007
- Tracks
- M.A.G.P.I.E. (Football is like a ceremony)
- Purlja vs Football - Crocodile Johnson, Delwyn Granites, Elf Tranzporter and DJ Wasabi
- Tanami Road
- Wati Kura - Red Sand Band
- Down the Road - Big Bear and Caleb Hargraves
- M.A.G.P.I.E. (Papunya Sports)
- Nguru Warlalja (live) - Gordon Robertson
- No Building
- M.A.G.P.I.E. (Mt Theo)
- Warlukurlangu
- I watch them leave - Courtney Singleton and Luke Sullivan
- 1234
- Nyarrpara-kurra na Yani? - Gordon Robertson
- Nyurru-wiyi Japu Japu - Ned Hargraves
- Notes
If not noted otherwise, tracks by Thomas 'Big Bear' Saylor.
Bran Nue Dae
- Released
- 24 December 2009
- Tracks
- Bran Nue Dae (Dan Sultan)
- All The Way Jesus (Jessica Mauboy)
- Seeds That You Might Sow (Dan Sultan)
- Feel Like Going Back Home (Ernie Dingo)
- Light A Light (Jessica Mauboy & Brendon Boney)
- Nothing I Would Rather Be (Bran Nue Dae Cast)
- Nyul Nyul Girl (Dan Sultan)
- Broome Love Theme
- Long Way Away From My Country (Ernie Dingo)
- Is You Mah Baby (Ernie Dingo)
- Six White Boomers (Rolf Harris)
- Zorba's Dance
- Afterglow
- Listen To The News (Ernie Dingo)
- Black Girl (Dan Sultan)
- Stand By Your Man (Jessica Mauboy)
- Nothing I Would Rather Be (Brendon Boney & Geoffrey Rush)
- Road Movie Medley
- Child Of Glory (Bob Faggetter)
- Going Back Home (Stephen Pigram)
- Bran Nue Dae - Millya Rumarra Recording (Jimmy Chi)
Mad Bastards
- Released
- 15 April 2011
- Tracks
- Nothing Really Matters - The Pigram Brothers with Alex Lloyd
- Villaret - The Pigram Brothers with Kerryn Tolhurst
- Slow Train - Alex Lloyd with The Pigram Brothers
- Won't Look Back - Alex Lloyd with The Pigram Brothers
- Interlude 1- Alex Lloyd
- Maysong - The Pigram Brothers
- Moonlight - The Pigram Brothers
- Catfish Rain - Alex Lloyd with The Pigram Brothers
- Interlude 2 - The Pigram Brothers
- Sleeping Cold - Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
- Johnny Walker's Shoes - The Pigram Brothers
- In Your Arms - Alex Lloyd
- Hearts and Minds - The Pigram Brothers with Alex Lloyd
The Sapphires
- Released
- 27 July 2012
- Tracks
- Land Of A Thousand Dancers - Jessica Mauboy
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Jessica Mauboy
- What A Man - Jessica Mauboy
- I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Jessica Mauboy
- Who's Loving You - Jessica Mauboy
- I'll Take You There - Jessica Mauboy
- Gotcha - Jessica Mauboy
- Soul Man - Sam & Dave
- Hold On, I'm Coming - Sam & Dave
- Run Through The Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Today I Started Loving You Again - Jessica Mauboy, Juanita Tippens & Jade Macrae
- People Make The World A Better Place - Juanita Tippens
- Yellow Bird - Jessica Mauboy & Lou Bennett
- Ngarra Burra Ferra - Jessica Mauboy, Lou Bennett, Juanita Tippens & Jade Macrae
- Shouting Out Love - The Emotions
- In The Sweet Bye & Bye - Darren Percival
- Notes
A second album, released 16 November 2012, contains 5 more songs by Jessica Mauboy.
Around The Block
- Released
- 11 July 2014
- Tracks
- Just To Feel Wanted
- Block After Block
- Truth Be Told
- Paint the Town Red
- Exile
- She Wants To Know
- Broken Wings
- Where You At?
- Catch Me On The Fly
- Cliff Top
- Need It
- How Far How High
- It's Real
- Blackbird Strings
- Steve's Kill Montage
- Rhythm and Flow
Prison Songs
- Released
- 4 January 2015
- Tracks
- Waking Up In Berrimah
- The Berrimah Hilton
- White Man's Time
- In the Middle
- Silver Princess
- Mum and Dad
- God Has a Reason
- In My Dreams
- Notes
Songs by Casey Bennetto & Shellie Morris.
The Secret Daughter: Songs from the Original TV Series
- Released
- 14 October 2016
- Tracks
- Risk It (original)
- It Must Have Been Love (Roxette)
- Flame Trees (Cold Chisel)
- Good Times (The Easybeats; featuring J.R. Reyne)
- Rocks" (Primal Scream; featuring J.R. Reyne)
- Photograph (Ed Sheeran)
- Stuck in the Middle (original)
- Amazing (Alex Lloyd)
- Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)
- Home to Me" (original)
- Big Girls Cry (Sia)
- Better Be Home Soon (Crowded House)
- Closer (original)
- Tainted Love (Gloria Jones / Soft Cell)
- Something About You (original)
- Wake Me Up (Avicii)
- Risk It (original / acoustic version)
- Notes
The album debuted at number 1 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, becoming Jessica Mauboy's first on that chart.
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