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"Down
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 126

Baked
beans - on toast


Need
You Tonight -
INXS, from
1987, the first single
off their sixth
album,
Kick.


Bang
Go the Bongos -
Bananagun, from their album The True Story of Bananagun, which came
out in 2020.


Sally
and the Preacher - the
Audreys, from
2008, it was on
their album After the Flood.


Oops
-we were wrong


When
we played Diamonds, by Robert Forster, off
his new album
Strawberries, and said
he was in the band The Church,
well
no,
Robert Forster isn't in the Church, his band was the Go-Betweens.
It sounded like this:


Spring
Rain -
from their album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, which
came out in 1986.


Love
Is A Sign -
from the album 16 Lovers Lane, a 1988 release.


Love
Goes On! -
also from 16 Lovers Lane,
but written
and sung by Grant McLennon. Forster and McLennon
had sort of a
Lennon-McCartney vibe.


With
love via Africa


Yombo
Yombo - the Senagambian Jazz Band, featuring Amadou Suso, a West
African musician living and working in Melbourne. The album was
recorded in Melbourne in 2017.


Let
Me Be Great - Sampa The Great.
Sampa Tembo,
born in Zambia, raised
in Botswana,
came to Australia in
2013.
She
recorded this song in 2022 for
her album As Above
So Below.


Summertime
Again - Miriam
Lieberman, a Sydney-based musician who has immersed
herself in the music of
West Africa. From
her album Birds Of the Moon, a 2014 release.


An
Ashley Naylor.set


Donovan
Dreams - a single he put out in October 2024.


Easy
- Ash playing with the Ronson Hangup on their 2023 album Centaurus.


Cinnamon
Girl - from 2009, a clip from the Aussie TV show RocKwiz, doing the
Neil Young song, Paul Kelly leading the vocals and Ash Naylor
supplying lead guitar.


A
Mother Goose tale


Baked
Beans - Mother Goose, a single from their 1977 album Stuffed.


Waiting
For the World - the Angels, from their album Face To Face, a 1978
release.


Touching
The Untouchables - Men At Work, from their 1982 debut album Business
As Usual.


Mother
Goose started in New Zealand, moved to Australia, and were so
successful they often had up-and-coming future headlining bands such
as the Angels and Men At Work opening their live shows. They moved to
the US in 1978 and spent a year trying to make it there, before
returning home Down Under.


Intro:
Roulette - Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino,
2003.


Exit
and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998
album.





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