General News
31 January, 2024
Time for a look at the lighter side of life
LOVE to know what song Bradley of Boort was singing when he put up the Australia Day-themed update on the Treemendous Tree at the weekend. WE have a few thoughts. Great Southern Land by Icehouse would have been cool it he had been up the ladder when...
LOVE to know what song Bradley of Boort was singing when he put up the Australia Day-themed update on the Treemendous Tree at the weekend.
WE have a few thoughts. Great Southern Land by Icehouse would have been cool it he had been up the ladder when temperatures went into the 30s on Saturday. Or Men at Work’s Land Downunder perhaps?
THOSE pop anthems are a musical eternity away from the first true-blue Aussie songs penned on our Terra Australis a few hundred years ago influenced by the folk style of Britain and Europe. Botany Bay, Click Go the Shears and the unofficial top song Waltzing Matilda have been stayers on the musical journey of Australia since European settlement.
OTF often wonders why come Australia Day, musicians belt out the stock standard tunes and then delve into every other country’s musical library to fill the gig chart.
MUSIC has been a great way of telling stories throughout history. We reckon a bit more Slim Dusty could fill the atmosphere or even ballads that rocketed The Seekers to international stardom in the 1960s.
AND to remind us of the convict pioneers of Australia as we have become, Frank Macnamara is credited with writing Bold Jack Donahue, which developed into The Wild Colonial Boy.