EATTISOML #28

"The Man From Snowy River Theme" by Bruce Rowland

I loved The Man From Snowy River as a kid. I may still love it now, although I haven't seen it in years, but the point is (and here comes another 'when I was a kid' thing) that after we got the movie on video, we also got the soundtrack on tape. We played it almost every trip we took to Sussex and looking out the window at the Clyde Valley or Kangaroo Valley and hearing that trumpet sting, and that whip crack, especially when it was rainy and the valley floor was shrouded in mist was just amazing.

Callum and I coined a term when we were living in Penrith; Power music. When he'd just got his license, we would occasionally just cruise to KFC or whatever and along the way we would listen to tapes that Callum had put together. The tapes featured more than the odd piece of "Power Music", the "Man From Snowy River Theme" being one of them, and when they came on the accelerator would get a little bit closer to the floor and the corners a little bit tighter.