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Country Classics (Slim Dusty Album)
''Country Classics'' is a 3CD greatest hits album by Australian country recording artist Slim Dusty, released through Reader's Digest. The album was separated into three periods of Dusty's career; The Early Years, The Middle Years and The Later Years. In 1999, the album was certified gold. Track listing ;CD1 - The Early Years (1947-1969) # " When the Rain Tumbles Down in July" (Original Version) # "My Aussie Home" # "Sat'day in the Saddle" # "Springtime On the Range" # "The Grandest Homestead of All" # "When the Sun Goes Down Outback" # "The Rain Still Tumbles Down" # "Our Wedding Waltz" (written by Joy McKean) # "King Bundawaal" # "Pub With No Beer" (Original Version) (written by Gordon Parsons) # "Saddle Boy" # " Along the Road to Gundagai" (written by Jack O'Hagan) # "By a Fire of Gidgee Coal" (written by Stan Coster and Slim Dusty) # "Song of Australia" # "Middleton's Rouseabout" (written by Henry Lawson and Slim Dusty) # "Down the Dusty Road to Home" (written by Joe Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Dusty
Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs. Slim Dusty "released more than a hundred albums, selling more than seven million records and earning over 70 gold and platinum album certifications". He was the first Australian to have a No. 1 international hit song, with a version of Gordon Parsons' " A Pub with No Beer". He received 38 Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to ''The Bulletin'', and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral. He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson. Family and early life Henry Lawson was born 17 June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Greatest Hits Albums
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Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as '' Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R), rewritable media ( CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; they are sometimes used for CD singles, storing up to 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Walker (musician)
Donald Hugh Walker (born 29 November 1951) is an Australian musician and songwriter who wrote many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. Walker is considered to be one of Australia's best songwriters. In 2012 he was inducted into the Australian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. He played piano and keyboard with the Cold Chisel from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo, initially under the name Catfish and as Tex, Don and Charlie, and worked as a songwriter for others. In 2009, he released his first book. Richard Clapton describes Walker as, "the most Australian writer there has ever been. Don just digs being a sort of Beat poet, who goes around observing, especially around the streets of Kings Cross. He soaks it up like a sponge and articulates it so well. Quite frankly, I think he's better than the rest of us." Biography 1951–1972: Early life and family Walker was born in Ayr, Queensland to a farmer father and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Greenwood (singer)
Johnny Greenwood (born 29 July 1939) is an Australian country music singer. Greenwood recorded pop songs in London in the 1960s, before returning to record for RCA Australia. In 1973 Greenwood released a tribute single on RCA to the champion Australian boxer Tony Mundine. In the year 1975, he released his best known trucking song "Big Bill". Discography Albums * ''Tibrogargan'' (1971) * ''The Goondiwindi Grey'' (1973) * ''The Singing Transport Man'' (1975) * ''Johnny Greenwood'' (1977) * ''Big Rigs and Truck Stops'' (1980) EPs * ''Just Another Mile To Go'' (1969) * ''It's Time To Have Some Good Times'' (1992) Singles *" Loving Arms" (1963) *"Star of the D.J. Show" (1964) *"Detroit City" (with Ellie Lavelle) (1966) *"The Goondiwindi Grey" (1973) - AUS #67 *"Our Champion - Tony Mundine " (1973) *"Big Bill" (1975) Awards Tamworth Songwriters Awards The Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA) is an annual songwriting contest for original country songs, awarded in January at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan (Slim Dusty Song)
"Duncan" is an Australian single recorded in 1980 by Slim Dusty which reached No. 1 on the Kent Music Report charts for two weeks in early 1981. The song was Dusty's second-most successful single after "A Pub with No Beer". It is also known as "Beer with Duncan", "Have a Beer with Duncan" and "I Love to Have a Beer with Duncan". It was written by Pat Alexander. Genesis "Duncan"'s music and lyrics were written by Pat Alexander;. He started writing its main verse in 1976. Alexander had been selling life insurance and spent some time talking and drinking with a prospective customer, factory owner Duncan Urquhart, at the Town and Country Hotel in St Peters, New South Wales. He failed to make the sale, but realised Urquhart merely enjoyed having a drink with him. Note: The source has "I had written in the pits – in 1974" but also has "Five years earlier, the song had come straight out of an experience" implying that it was written in 1976. "Duncan" was Alexander's onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Ryan
Ross Edwin Ryan (born 13 December 1950) is an American-born Australian singer-songwriter and producer. His signature tune, "I Am Pegasus", was released in September 1973, which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian Singles. Its parent album, '' My Name Means Horse'', was released in February 1974, which reached No. 3 on the Australian Album chart. Biography Early years Ross Ryan was born on 13 December 1950, in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The family moved to Mount Manypeaks near Albany, Western Australia in 1959 where they settled on a sheep farm of . By the age of 13 years he was writing songs and learning guitar. Ryan attended Albany High, where he took the lead in ''The Music Man''; and he produced a radio program, ''High School Half Hour'', for the local station 6VA. He joined a number of local bands including The Sett and Saffron. Ryan moved to Perth, undertook an electronics course and worked as an audio operator at a TV station, STW 9.McFarlane, . Archived frothe or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lights On The Hill (song)
"Lights on the Hill" is an Australian country music hit song written by Anthony Ernest Brooks, with music by Joy McKean and made famous by her husband, Slim Dusty. It won the first Golden Guitar in January 1973 at the Country Music Awards of Australia, held in Tamworth. It has been covered by Keith Urban and Mental as Anything. About the song The song describes a truckie driving at night with a heavy load being blinded by lights on the hill, hitting a pole, falling of the edge of a road and realising his impending death. First Golden Guitar Award The song won for Joy McKean the first ever Golden Guitar Award for "Song of the Year" at the first Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 1973, and Slim Dusty's rendition won the award for Best EP or Single. The Lights on the Hill Truck and Coach Drivers' Memorial A memorial which bears the name of the song was erected in Gatton, Queensland, in remembrance of truck and coach drivers and other members of the transport industry who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clancy Of The Overflow
"Clancy of the Overflow" is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in ''The Bulletin'', an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works. The poem is written in eight stanzas of four lines, lines one and three in a two- feet anapaest with a feminine internal rhyme, and lines two and four in trochaic octameter with masculine rhymes: AA–B–CC–B. History The poem is written from the point of view of a city-dweller who once met the title character, a shearer and drover, and now envies the imagined pleasures of Clancy's lifestyle, which he compares favourably to life in "the dusty, dirty city" and "the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal". And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Snowy River (poem)
"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in ''The Bulletin'', an Australian news magazine, on 26 April 1890, and was published by Angus & Robertson in October 1895, with other poems by Paterson, in '' The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses''. The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning racehorse that escaped from its paddock and is living with the brumbies (wild horses) of the mountain ranges. Eventually the brumbies descend a seemingly impassable steep slope, at which point the assembled riders give up the pursuit, except the young protagonist, who spurs his "pony" (small horse) down the "terrible descent" and catches the mob. Two characters mentioned in the early part of the poem are featured in previous Paterson poems: "Clancy of the Overflow" and Harrison from "Old Pardon, Son of Reprieve". Setting of the poem It is recorded in the selected works of "Banjo" Paterso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Coster
Stan Coster OAM (27 May 193025 March 1997) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter. His songs were regularly performed by Slim Dusty and other singers. He is the father of country music singer Tracy Coster. Early life Stan Coster was born at Casino on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia in 1930. One of seven children, each of whom were musically talented. He left school at the age of 14 and worked for a local butcher in Woolgoolga, NSW. By the age of 16, he was cutting sleepers for train tracks and at 18 years of age he went to work as a station hand before moving to Sydney and in 1948 moved to Cooma, New South Wales, to work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. In 1950, at age 20, Coster joined a travelling rodeo as a rough rider and in 1951 he married Dorothy Aileen Milto, with whom he had three children, including country music singer Tracy Coster. Musical career In 1956, Coster began writing songs and met Slim Dusty in 1960 at Longreach, Queensland. Dusty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
