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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)
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In
The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 movie, young Dorothy Gale needs to go to
the Emerald City but doesn't know the way. "It's always best to
start at the beginning," Glinda the good witch tells her.
Phantom
Island - King
Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard,
the
title track to their
2025 album.
Naxos
- Babe Rainbow, from
their 2022 album Organic Band.
One
Thing At A Time -
Courtney Barnett,
a song from her new album,
Creature of Habit, a March release.
April
25 is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, which celebrates the
deep and enduring cultural and political bonds between the two
nations, and is an occasion to remember the Australian and New
Zealand soldiers who fought and died in war.
The
Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle, from a 2013 concert. He
wrote it in 1971. Born and raised in Scotland, Bogle emigrated to
Australia at the age of 25. Irish band the Pogues did a brilliant
version in 1985 on their album Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
I
Hate to Fight
-
Adrian
Kosky,
it
was on his album The High Side of the Low End, from
2006.
Kosky
is
also
renowned
as a
player
of the mountain dulcimer. He splits his time between western Victoria
in Australia and Clarksdale, Mississippi.
When
The
Generals
Talk -
Midnight
Oil, from their album Red Sails In The Sunset, a 1984 release.
From
the vault
The
Twilights, from 1966 to 1969 they were one of the most successful pop
groups in Australia, racking up eight consecutive national hit
singles. We heard three
of their 1967 singles:
-
Cathy Come Home
-
Time And Motion Study
Man
-
9.50
-
Bowling Brings Out The
Swinger In You,
also from 1967, the
Twilights recorded this
jingle to encourage people to go bowling.
Members
of the Twilights
included
singer Glenn Shorrock,
who later was one of
the founders of the
Little River Band, and
Terry Britten on guitar, who
became
a popular songwriter for the likes of Tina
Turner and Michael
Jackson.
New
to you
Thin
Aspirations -
Heir To the
Squandered Millions,
it's a
single from
their
upcoming album.The
band is led by
Ross McLennan.
Crossing
Open Ground - These
Future Kings,
a
new release from an
album that was
recorded,
and lost, 30-plus
years ago; it's
titled
Via Dolorosa. The band
was
popular in the
1980s
and '90s. Somehow the
original album tapes ended up
in Portugal.
The
Way I Make
You Feel -
Ed Kuepper,
a founding member of the Saints,
from his 1991 album
Honey Steel's Gold.
Junk
-
the Gin Club, although brief, it's the title track to their 2008
album.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
