Banjo Paterson Travelling with fiancée, Sarah Riley, they met with her old school friend, Christina Macpherson, who had recently attended a race at Warrnambool in Victoria. She had heard a band playing a tune there, which became stuck in her head and replayed it for Paterson on the autoharp. The melody also resonated with him and propelled him to write "Waltzing Matilda" While there has been much debate about what inspired the words, the song became one of his most his widely known and sung ballads. In addition, he wrote the lyrics for songs with piano scores, such as "The Daylight is
Creation of Sunlight did not sell well. Nonetheless, the group became a popular mainstay at the Whisky a Go Go toward the end of 1969, and made other notable performances at the Hollywood Bowl. In 1971, the Creation of Sunlight disbanded. Overtime, their album has been the subject of numerous bootlegs, especially in Europe, and original copies of "Creation of Sunlight" have garnered four-figure asking prices. In 2005, Lion Productions made the first officially reissue of the album. Speaking on the album's rerelease, music critic Beverly Paterson said "'Creation of Sunlight' is a perfect example of flower power rock done right. Bathed in