Songs sung by Slim Dusty but never previously released
23rd March 2007, 18:15 WST
Songs sung by Slim Dusty but never previously released by the legendary country artist will be heard beyond the grave in a family album.
His wife and songwriter Joy McKean said Dusty's memory would live on through their musically talented children Anne and David Kirkpatrick and four grandchildren when they record a family album in July.
The offering will also feature up to three tracks from an album Dusty recorded before his death in September 2003, which would have been his 107th album.
Plans to record at least one of Dusty's "lost" songs, which were penned by the musician in 1942 and unearthed by the National Achieve in Canberra 65 years later in February, have also been made.
"Slim will definitely be on the album ... it's going to be a lot of fun," McKean said from her Sydney home.
"This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the pub (A Pub With No Beer single) and it's Slim's 80th birthday. We have a very busy year ahead of us."
Lyrics in A Pub With No Beer spell a nightmare predicament for a swaggie or a stockman, but for Dusty the song has brought worldwide success.
"Time is galloping by, I can't believe that pub has been up there and become such an iconic song," McKean said.
"It's certainly not going anywhere. This is the sort of song that people overseas hear and get quite homesick.
"You hear A Pub With No Beer in England, Scotland, Ireland and even Canada. Everyone immediately thinks of Australia."
The ironic 1957 recording was not only the first ever number one hit by an Australian artist, but also the country's first international single.
In January 1959 it entered the top three position in Britain's music charts and internationally sold more than 500,000 copies - huge figures in the 1950's record industry landscape.
Dusty recorded the song in one take.
"I remember he was saying to the producer that he wasn't sure about his voice on a couple of words in the first take, but the producer said it was fine," McKean said.
"It was such a spontaneous kind of track, he sang it and really lifted it and it worked.
"He liked to record quickly because he didn't want to lose that spontaneous feeling."
To commemorate A Pub With No Beer a three CD song set - Slim Dusty: Pubs, Trucks and Plains - will be released on March 24.
Songs sung by Slim Dusty but never previously released by the legendary country artist will be heard beyond the grave in a family album.
His wife and songwriter Joy McKean said Dusty's memory would live on through their musically talented children Anne and David Kirkpatrick and four grandchildren when they record a family album in July.
The offering will also feature up to three tracks from an album Dusty recorded before his death in September 2003, which would have been his 107th album.
Plans to record at least one of Dusty's "lost" songs, which were penned by the musician in 1942 and unearthed by the National Achieve in Canberra 65 years later in February, have also been made.
"Slim will definitely be on the album ... it's going to be a lot of fun," McKean said from her Sydney home.
"This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the pub (A Pub With No Beer single) and it's Slim's 80th birthday. We have a very busy year ahead of us."
Lyrics in A Pub With No Beer spell a nightmare predicament for a swaggie or a stockman, but for Dusty the song has brought worldwide success.
"Time is galloping by, I can't believe that pub has been up there and become such an iconic song," McKean said.
"It's certainly not going anywhere. This is the sort of song that people overseas hear and get quite homesick.
"You hear A Pub With No Beer in England, Scotland, Ireland and even Canada. Everyone immediately thinks of Australia."
The ironic 1957 recording was not only the first ever number one hit by an Australian artist, but also the country's first international single.
In January 1959 it entered the top three position in Britain's music charts and internationally sold more than 500,000 copies - huge figures in the 1950's record industry landscape.
Dusty recorded the song in one take.
"I remember he was saying to the producer that he wasn't sure about his voice on a couple of words in the first take, but the producer said it was fine," McKean said.
"It was such a spontaneous kind of track, he sang it and really lifted it and it worked.
"He liked to record quickly because he didn't want to lose that spontaneous feeling."
To commemorate A Pub With No Beer a three CD song set - Slim Dusty: Pubs, Trucks and Plains - will be released on March 24.
posted by Jim Myrick | 11:41 AM
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Looking forward to the new releases.
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