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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 112
03-26-2025
Spring
fever. Taking malt-based liquid medication
Without
entering into an argument about New Zealand's place in a Down Under
Hour program, here is a Split Enz triple play.
Dirty
Creature
Six
Months In A Leaky Boat - both songs from their 1982 album Time And
Tide.
I
Hope I Never, from their 1980 album True Colours.
Split
Enz started in New Zealand but by 1975 they'd moved to Australia.
They featured Tim Finn singing, playing piano and writing songs.
Later he was joined in the band by his younger brother Neil Finn, who
eventually put together his own band, Crowded House.
Tasmanian,
no devils
Sump
Oil City - Pete Cornelius, from his album Southern, released in
February this year.
Anthropology
- A. Swayze and the Ghosts, from their album Let's Live a Life Better
Than This, which came out in October 2024.
Back to the mainland
Can
You Feel It? - Felicity Cripps, from her album Chasing Volcanoes,
which came out in August 2024.
Aquarium
Cowgirl - Babe Rainbow with a new single, meaning March 2025.
Aussies
love their football (they call it footy)
A
TV ad from the 1970s for Holden cars, leading into two songs about
footy.
Up
There Cazaly - Mike Brady singing about a legendary player named Roy
Cazaly, but really it's about footy.
That's
the Thing About Football - Greg Champion, a dead-set legend of Aussie
song.
Into
the vaults - a 1960s set
Wild
About You - the Missing Links, a 1965 single. also on the album
Driving You Insane.
War
Or the Hands of Time - the Masters Apprentices, a 1967 single,
I'll
Make You Happy - the Easybeats, from 1966, the album It's 2 Easy.
Hangin'
Five - the Delltones,, a 1963 single, we found it on the soundtrack
to a 1977 movie, Summer City.
We
tossed in a minute of this to fill space: Bowling
Brings Out The Swinger In You
- the Twilights in
1967 doing an ad for
bowling. The
Twilights featured
singer Glenn Shorrock who later
was one of the founders of
the Little River Band,
and Terry Britten on guitar, he went on to become a popular
songwriter for the likes of Michael Jackson and Tina Turner.
Drive
- Ben Mastwyk with his version of the song. He recorded it for an EP
he released in December 2024, The Miner's Loft Sessions. The
original, by the Cars, was on their 1984 album Heartbeat City.
Intro:
Roulette - Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino,
2003.
Exit
and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998
album.
