OK folks, I haven’t finished the AFD upgrade at the moment, but I’m going to start my record blog with this rare recording from 1981

Title: Aussies on 45

Vocals: Johnathan Coleman and the Brenda Gee Singers

Record Label: WEA (Warner Music)

Release Number 100188

Side one:

Aussie Intro, Road to Gundagai, Waltzing Matilda, Shaddap You Face, Skippy Theme, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, Up There Cazaly, Duncan, Advance Australia Fair, Come On Aussie and Aussie Outro

Side Two:

Aussie Intro, Road to Gundagai (longer version), Click Go the Shears, Botany Bay, Wild Colonial Boy, Old Man Emu, A Pub With No Beer and Aussie Outro

Credits: Produced by Brenda Lee

Arranger and Production Assistant: Gary Fredericks

Recorded at LEO, Sydney, Australia 

Most of you would know Johnno as a radio D.J., but many years ago he started his career as a copywriter and as a reporter on the Ten Networks’s “Simon Townsend’s Wonder World”.

He had a short lived recording career, his first being a song called “You Are What You Eat”.

This was Johnno’s second single.  This was obviously inspired by the success of “Stars on 45″, and from what I recall he was planning to do an “Aussies on 45″ LP, but the lack of success of this single (I once read that the bosses at WEA claimed the single had sold about 6000 copies) put an end to that.

He only made one final single (with was a duet with the late (and great) Ricky May) which was called “Built for Comfort”.

and now, for your viewing pleasure, the back cover art.