Skippy Sheet Music
1968
Skippy Sheet Music
1968
- NFSA IDHGCYJ5Q9
- TypeDocumentation
- MediumDocumentation
- FormSheet Music, Series
- GenresChildren, Drama
- Year1968
The theme song for Skippy by Eric Jupp (1922–2003) is one of the most recognisable Australian television theme songs of all time. For generations of Australians it has become synonymous with the bush.
The banjo – an instrument more commonly associated with America – is cleverly used to mimic the bouncing of a kangaroo.
Interestingly, the final recording starts with the sound of a whistle being blown on a gumleaf, but there is no reference to this sound effect on the sheet music reproduced here.
Notes by Stephen Groenewegen and Adam Blackshaw
The theme song for Skippy by Eric Jupp (1922–2003) is one of the most recognisable Australian television theme songs of all time. For generations of Australians it has become synonymous with the bush.
The banjo – an instrument more commonly associated with America – is cleverly used to mimic the bouncing of a kangaroo.
Interestingly, the final recording starts with the sound of a whistle being blown on a gumleaf, but there is no reference to this sound effect on the sheet music reproduced here.
Notes by Stephen Groenewegen and Adam Blackshaw
- NFSA IDHGCYJ5Q9
- TypeDocumentation
- MediumDocumentation
- FormSheet Music, Series
- GenresChildren, Drama
- Year1968
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