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* 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( d. 2003 )
Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.
Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Rolf Harris, The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the band Redgum have continued to record and popularise the old bush ballads of Australia through the 20th and into the 21st century – and contemporary artists including Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan draw heavily on this heritage.
Another, more Americanized form of Australian country music was pioneered in the 1930s by such recording artists as Tex Morton, and later popularized by Slim Dusty, best remembered for his 1957 song " A Pub With No Beer ".
The 1956 Melbourne Olympics announced a confident, prosperous post-war nation, and new cultural icons like Australian country music star Slim Dusty and dadaist Barry Humphries expressed a uniquely Australian identity.
Quintessential Australian country music hits included the novelty songs " A Pub with No Beer " ( 1957 ) by Slim Dusty and " Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport " ( 1960s ) by Rolf Harris which help define a comic tradition of Australian music.
Adopted by Australian soldiers during World War I, this song remains popular and is often sung at sporting events, including the closure of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, by Australian country music singer Slim Dusty.
Slim Dusty ( 1927 – 2003 ) was known as the King of Australian Country Music.
* Slim Dusty recorded the poem with new music, to call attention to the " old bush ballads ".
Category: Slim Dusty songs
Slim Dusty was the first recording artist to record a tribute song, " Namatjira ", in the 1960s, and Rick and Thel Carey followed up with their tribute " The Stairs That Namatjira Climbed ".
Mckean performed with her husband Slim Dusty till his death in 2003.
David Gordon " Slim Dusty " Kirkpatrick AO, MBE ( 13 June 1927 — 19 September 2003 ) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and producer, with a career spanning nearly seven decades.
Kirkpatrick adopted the stage name " Slim Dusty " in 1938 at eleven years of age.
Statue of " The Cunnamulla Fella " erected as a tribute to song writer, Stan Coster and singer, Slim Dusty.
In 1954 the two launched a full time business career, including the Slim Dusty Travelling Show.
1964 saw the establishment of the annual Slim Dusty Australia-round tour, a journey that went on for ten months.
This regular event was the subject of a feature film, The Slim Dusty Movie, in 1984.
EMI Records ' Australian sales of Slim Dusty records surpassed 7 million in 2007.
Slim Dusty was Australia's most successful and prolific musical artist, with more Gold and Platinum albums than any other Australian artist.
Slim Dusty was also:
* EMI Records ' Australian sales of Slim Dusty records surpassed 7 million in 2007.
* Slim Dusty was a guest on the Wiggles ' children DVD " Wiggly Wiggly World ".
* Slim's life was the subject of a 1984 feature film: The Slim Dusty Movie "

Slim and wife
Enough is a 2002 American drama-thriller film starring Jennifer Lopez as Slim, an abused wife who learns to fight back.
Slim's papers were collected by his biographer, Ronald Lewin, and given to the Churchill Archives Centre by Slim's wife, Aileen, Viscountess Slim, and son, John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim, and other donors, 1977-2001.
With demand high for the crop, three Lakota farmers, Tom Cook, his wife Afraid of Bear and American Horse grandson of Chief American Horse formed the Slim Butte Land-Use Association.
Hermes ' wife LaBarbara Conrad was once married to Slim ; she temporarily gets back together with him ( twice ) in Bender's Big Score.
In 1938, Hayward met Slim Hawks, then wife of film director Howard Hawks.
James Anderson, a retired U. S. Marshal, comes home after a trip to the general store to find his wife Anna dying and his daughter Sarah, kidnapped by two outlaws known as Matt " Dr. Death " Jackson and " Slim " Sam Fulton, under the employ of the evil railroad baron named Bob Graham.
The series featured numerous performances and cameos by notable guest stars including: Dean Martin, Kim Basinger, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Abe Vigoda, Morey Amsterdam, Shelley Fabares, Shelley Berman, Savannah Smith Boucher, Alex Trebek, Sid Caesar, Slim Pickens, Isabel Sanford, Maureen McCormick, Cesar Romero, Doc Severinsen, Mamie Van Doren, Muhammad Ali, Robert Loggia, Kurt Krakowian, Leslie Nielsen, Lola Falana, Rudolph " Minnesota Fats " Wanderone, Heather Menzies ( Urich's real-life wife ), Eve Arden, Barbi Benton, Lisa Hartman, Shelley Winters, Wayne Newton, Captain & Tennille, Wolfman Jack, Tanya Roberts, Lorne Greene, Erin Gray, Gary Lockwood, William Garbacz, June Lockhart, Michael Cole, and Dick Butkus.
Slim Dusty's wife Joy McKean penned several of his most popular songs including “ Indian Pacific ”, “ The Biggest Disappointment ” and “ Lights on the Hill ”.

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Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.
Among his gangland buddies, he said, were Joseph ( Joey ) Glimco, a mob labor racketeer, and four gang gambling chiefs, Gus ( Slim ) Alex, Ralph Pierce, Joe ( Caesar ) DiVarco, and Jimmy ( Monk ) Allegretti.
The characters of the town were Grandpa Twink who did little but rest in a chair, Little Jake the only child in town, Ma Jones who run the town store, Doc Haggerty, Slim Jim the bartender of the Denison saloon, Marvin Jackson the bank manager and Dan Morse the telegraphist.
The segment would always open up spoofing Burma-Shave road signs as some of the Hee-Haw cast were seen piled on a truck driving down the road to Slim's Bar-B-Q whose guests often complained about the food to which Slim would counter with something like " I may not have prime meat at this picnic but I do have prime entertainment ..." and then he'd bring out the entertainment.
Some of the earliest and most influential were Big Maceo Merriweather and, later, Sunnyland Slim.
A number of their tracks, particularly those of Slim Harpo, were covered by British Invasion bands, including the Rolling Stones, The Kinks and the Yardbirds.
" These were released under the name " Memphis Slim ," given to him by Bluebird's producer, Lester Melrose.
Many of Slim's recordings and performances until the mid-1940s were with guitarist and singer Broonzy, who had recruited Slim to be his piano player after Joshua Altheimer's death in 1940.
According to El Mahdi, these verses were appended to the anthem in June 1955 by nationalist Mongi Slim.
Minneapolis ' most famous performers were the Norwegian-descended Eleonora and Ethel Olson and Ernest and Clarence Iverson ( Slim Jim & the Vagabond Kid ), and Swedish immigrant Hjalmar Peterson, whose company dominated the stage for two decades before the Great Depression.
Magic Slim and his band were regular performers at the bar, playing week-long stints.
Slim also supported increased offensive patrolling and night training, to encourage his soldiers to lose both their fear of the jungle and their belief that Japanese soldiers were better jungle fighters.
In December 1944, during a ceremony at Imphal in front of the Scottish, Gurkha and Punjabi regiments, Slim and three of his corps commanders ( Christison, Scoones and Stopford ) were knighted by the viceroy Lord Wavell and invested with their honours: Slim was presented with his insignia as KCB, the others with their KBEs.
In 2007 allegations were made by three former residents that as young boys Slim had sexually assaulted them during visits to the farms.
These allegations were dismissed out of hand at that time by those who had served under Slim in the army and by his son John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim.
The only other artists known to have released such albums in South Africa were Elvis Presley and Slim Whitman.
Following the albums ' release, the duo were thanked in the liner notes of Better Living Through Chemistry by Fatboy Slim.
Big Beach Boutique II is a mixed compilation album containing some of the songs which were played by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim and Midfield General in a live performance on Brighton Beach on July 13, 2002.

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