HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAM (Warner Music Australia)

Hold On To Your Dream 13 Inspirational Songs

The critics said: "Durham's angelic vocals do justice to some superb compositions and moving lyrics…"

TRACK BY TRACK

  1. HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAM
    Words and Music by Judith Durham
    Hold On To Your Dream Inspired by the Sunshine Coast Tourism Board to perform at their 1983 Awards.
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  2. AUSTRALIA LAND OF TODAY
    Words and Music by Judith Durham
    A love song for Australia, written over 20 years from 1971, as an alternative to the then much maligned National Anthem. The song had its 'major event' debut at the opening of the Great Southern Stand at the MCG in 1992 for the World Series Cricket final
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  3. LET ME FIND LOVE
    Words and Music by Judith Durham; Song arranged by Ron Edgeworth
    One morning in 1969 I woke up inspired with the melody and words expressing the concept of filling your heart with love and joy to find peace and freedom in this world. It is the first song I ever wrote from conception
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  4. WHEN STARLIGHT FADES
    Words by Judith Durham & Hazel Cock
    Music by Judith Durham [Piano arrangement by Ron Edgeworth]
    My Mother, Hazel, suggested the whole first line as a title: "When starlight fades, the day comes in from somewhere". It's about dreaming of and finding our love, the joy and pain in love, and finally trusting, hoping and believing that our love will never die
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  5. COULDA WOULDA SHOULDA
    Words by Judith Durham & Stacey Testro; Music by Judith Durham
    The old saying "he (or she) who hesitates is lost" translates today as we "could'a done this, and should'a done that", and in 1991 my agent, Stacey, inspired me with this title. I wrote it with a fifties doo-wop feel in mind, and the track was recently selected for inclusion on the 'ROVE [LIVE]' album.
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  6. IT'S HARD TO LEAVE
    Words and Music by Judith Durham
    In 1971 I had just had yet another of those many tearful goodbyes to my sister and her family and my parents in Melbourne This song (and also "When Starlight Fades") were written in the hotel bathroom during the next night after arriving in London
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  7. THE MIGRANT [O METANASTIS]
    Original Greek poem by Angela Delonas; English Adaptation & Music by Judith Durham
    I met Angela Delonas, a Greek lady, at the Hampton Rehabilitation Hospital after my car accident in 1990 and she persuaded me to set her published Greek poem to music Many thanks to film director Nadia Tass for helping me with the pronunciation. My great grandfather was a Greek migrant
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  8. WE MUST TEACH OUR CHILDREN [From "The Chief Seattle Suite"]
    [Adapted from the television script by Ted Perry based on a short speech by Chief Seattle, 1854]
    Words by Judith Durham, Chief Seattle & Ted Perry; Music by Judith Durham
    Song No. 4 in a five song cycle based on the world famous speech attributed to American Indian Chief Seattle which is in fact a script by American Professor Ted Perry about the environment (commissioned for television by the Southern Baptist Church). I rhymed the entire passage and set it to music around 1983. Ted based his script on a short speech by the great Chief and royalties from the lyrics go to his tribe.
    50% royalties donated to the tribe of Chief Seattle (c/o Suquamish Museum)
    Donations may be sent to: Suquamish Museum PO Box 498 Suquamish Washington 98392 USA
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  9. HOLD ON TIGHT
    Words and Music by Lorraine Jager
    I was asked to sing this exceptional song by the composer, for the family of her sister, who had a stroke and was with me in rehab at Hampton. The album was always to be self-penned …but then I was presented with this jewel!
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  10. NO MOTHER COULD BE LOVELIER (THAN YOU)
    [Dedicated to the memory of Vicky Edgeworth]
    Words and Music by Judith Durham
    My dear Mother-In-Law Vicky always cried when Ron and I performed this song for her. I wrote it as her special birthday card in the 70s but it is for all mothers who give their love and are loved so much in return
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  11. SLOWLY GENTLY
    Words by Judith Durham; Music by Ron Edgeworth
    In the 80s in Queensland Ron was writing this beautiful piece of music and he had scribbled "slowly gently" on the manuscript as a reminder of how to play it. I thought it was the title and promptly wrote a lullaby lyric to surprise him! Sadly this computer keyboard recording in 1993 (originally at half speed) would be Ron's last. He died of MND in 1994
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  12. IN YOUR LOVE
    Words by Ron Edgeworth & Judith Durham; Music by Ron Edgeworth
    Ron's unmistakable exuberant piano styling on his own composition written in our motor home in Florida in 1978. I merely helped with the lyrics
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  13. MY FATHER'S LAST WORDS
    Words by Ronald Curteis & Marie Curteis; Additional Words & Music by Judith Durham
    A dear fan asked me to set these words to music so that she could sing the song for her Mother. Her dying father had conveyed this message to his wife who then transformed it to poetry
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"… The sun that comes in from somewhere is Durham, bursting to share her music…a dynamic performer who wants to give you her very heart - which she does…quality music-making…"
The Australian

"… Durham's voice remains a glorious, God-given instrument … another side of her artistry is revealed - her ability to write…..will have emotions pounding inside any soul …"
Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)