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at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,
if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,
look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."
(Slim Dusty)
Show 151
It's
Christmas Down Under
Santa
Swapped His Sleigh For a Surfboard
- a true-blue number by Craig
Stewart.
I
Hope You Get Laid For Christmas
- Damien Cowell's Disco
Machine is the album,
which came out in 2015,
this track featuring
Liz Stringer. Cowell
is best known as a member of the band TISM.
Aussie
Jingle Bells/He's the Aussie Santa - Aussie Christmas with Bucko and
Champs. Colin Buchanan and Greg Champion did these in 1995.
Spend
Christmas Day With Me - Darren Hanlon, from his 2009 album Pointing
Ray Guns at Pagans.
Aussie
Christmas Song -
Robin Bate,
one of those happy items that turn up on YouTube.
Detour:
Christmas is time for a beach holiday for many Australians
Somewhere
Out On the Road Tonight
- Ian
W. Beer,
from his 2012
album Heart & Mind.
My
Father Told Me -
Tamam Shud, it
was on their
EP titled Bali Waters in 1970 and
was a single in 1972.
The song was recorded to be part of a surf-movie soundtrack,
Morning of the Earth. This from an extended CD version of their
best-known album Evolution, first released in 1968 or 69 (reports
vary). Combining
travel with summer.
Heavy
Moss -
Summa, a 2023 single;
summa is how an
Australian pronounces
summer.
Summertime
- Chris
Wilson doing
the George
Gershwin classic,
written for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
Chris did it on his
1992 debut
album,
Landlocked. This
version from the
collection Landlocked
Faithless & Free, a 2022 release.
Back
to the Christmas spirit
Little
Drummer Boy - Hoodoo Gurus, from 2005, a reissue of their 1991 album
Kinky.
The song
has
been going around
in various versions since 1941.
White
Wine In the Sun - Tim Minchin. He released it on the album Ready For
This? Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in 2008. This version was
recorded in concert in 2009.
How
To Make Gravy - Paul
Kelly, a
song that has become an Australian holiday season classic.
He
first recorded it in 1998 for his album Words And Music. This version
is from his collection
The A-Z Recordings, taken
from concert performances from 2004 to 2010.
In November 2025
Kelly released
a sequel to the song, Rita Wrote A Letter, on his latest album titled
Seventy. It isn't a
Christmas song.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
