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(Slim Dusty)
Show 154
From
the year 1966 to the year 2016 - a pattern emerges
1966?
Was that a real year?
War
Or Hands of Time - the Master’s Apprentices, the B-side to their
single Undecided, also on the 1967 debut album. This version from the
2009 Aztec Music compilation The Master’s Apprentices.
How
Is the Air Up There - the La De Das, a band from New Zealand, and for
our purposes part of Down Under Hour territory.
Friday
On My Mind - the Easybeats, their best-known song,
recorded in London after the band moved there seeking greater fame
and fortune.
Also
in there we had a word from Holden cars for 1966.
What
was happening in 1976?
Jailbreak
- AC/DC, from the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album, recorded at
Alberts studios in Sydney in 1975 and released in Australia, New
Zealand and Europe in 1976, but didn't make it to the US until 1981.
Jump
In My Car - the Ted Mulry Gang, their single was released in 1975 but
topped Australian charts for many weeks in 1976.
Feel
the Breeze - the Down Under Hour debut of Air Supply, from their
debut LP, recorded in Sydney, before the main members moved to the
US.
ABBA
medley -
Norman Gunston, the
comic creation of
Australian actor Garry
McDonald.
10
years later, it's 1986
Suntrapper
- the
Triffids, from
their
album In
The Pines,
recorded in a sheep-shearing shed on the McComb family farm - David
McComb was the band's songwriter, singer, and played guitar, his
brother Robert McComb played guitar and violin.
Stuck
On You
-
Hunters
& Collectors, from their album Human Frailty.
The
band was led
by Mark
Seymour, whose
brother Nick
Seymour
is
the
bass player in Crowded House.
The song was written by Ian Rilen, bass player in the band Rose
Tattoo.
Don’t
Tear It Down
-
v
Spy v Spy from
their 1986 album A.O. Mod. TV Vers,
which
is
an abbreviation for
Adults Only Modified Television Version, a censorship notification
on
Australian television at the time. This version from the 2016
compilation The Glory Days of Aussie Pub Rock, vol. 1.
Speaking
of TV, if you watched Australian TV in the 1980s
you would've seen the ad for Victoria Bitter beer that
we played at the start of this set.
It's
1996
Common
Ground - Midnight Oil, from their album Breathe.
Falling
Star - Rebecca's Empire, featuring Rebecca Barnard, from the album
Way of All Things.
Look
at that, it's already 2006
Two
More Bottles Of Wine -
Suzannah Espie, from
her album A Few More
Days.
Go
Go Getter - the Dolly Rocker Movement, from their album Electric
Sunshine.
Almost
finished, it's 2016
High
And Low - Empire of the Sun, from their album Two Vines. It's the
work of Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore. Steele was born in New
Zealand and raised in Australia, and Littlemore is from Sydney.
They've both moved away and work far from Australia, which is why we
don't often feature their music.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
