Alex Hood (folklorist)

Early life

Hood wrote a book The Green Emerald when aged eight and was writing short plays at nine. He studied at Homebush Boys High School in Sydney until his father persuaded him to become an electrical apprentice at age 15. He joined the Eureka Youth League, a communist youth association, meeting Bill Berry and Chris Kempster, who taught him to play the guitar.

Discography

Songs While the Billy Boils

The First One Hundred Years

The Second One Hundred Years

Songs of Australia

Me and My Friends

Me and More Friends

Seasons of Change

Songs From the Wallaby Track

Sydney or The Bush

The Flying Pieman

Song Books

Australian Folksong Songster (1964)

Australian Folksong Folio (1964)

The Pumpkin Paddy Songster (1970)

The Wallaby Track (1971)

Pumpkin Paddy meets the Bunyip (1972)

Brumby Jack Saves the Wild Bush Horses (1972)

The Flying Pieman (1974)

Bill Jinks and the Whale (1974)

Herman's German band meets Thunderbolt (1974) with Robert Smith

Speewah (1978)

Eureka : Beneath the Southern Cross (1984)