THE
FABLE YEARS - Australian Pop Songs - 1970 to 1984
Various Artists
- audio CD
Please note - this is not a DVD, it is a normal audio CD set. Will work
in all CD players worldwide. (Should also play nicely in most computers
and DVD players !)
Contains a total of 41 songs !
This compilation is collection of songs from the historical Australian
label Fable Records. The label was founded in 1969 by industry veteran
Ron Tudor. Fable was the first independent label to achieve notable
success. One of the first records released on Fable was Boom Sha La La
Lo by Hans Poulsen.
Fable achieved incredible success and recognition including the first
all-Australian international hit The Pushbike Song by The Mixtures.
John Williamson received his first gold record for Old Man Emu. Liv
Maessen became the first Australian female recording artist to be
awarded a gold record for single sales of Knock Knock, Who’s
There at 50,000 units. Both John Williamson and Liv Maessen were given
their recording contracts as winners from the famous TV show New Faces
on which Ron was a judge.
Fable won eight of the sixteen awards presented to the Australian
Record Industry in 1972 by the Federation of Australian Commercial
Broadcasters. Up There Cazaly (1979) which at the time became the
biggest ever selling Australian single, selling in excess of 250,000
units and achieving a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The song
itself has now become the most widely recognised theme song in AFL
history. When Ron Retired in the mid eighties the company had amassed
20 gold and platinum records as well as 32 industry awards.
Track Listing:
Disk 1
1. Kevin Borich - Celebration
2. Mondo Rock - State Of The
Heart
3. Drummond - Daddy Cool
4. Brian Cadd - Ginger Man
5. Hans Poulsen - Boom Sha
La-la-lo
6. Mississippi - Kings Of The
Worlds
7. Axiom - A Little Ray Of
Sunshine
8. Jigsaw - Yellow River
9. The Mixtures - The Pushbike
Song
10. Normie Rowe - Maybe
Tomorrow
11. Jimmy & The Boys -
They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me
12. Bobby & Laurie -
Carrol County Accident
13. The Bootleg Family Band -
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
14. Doug Parkinson In Focus -
Purple Curtains
15. Miss Linda George - Mama's
Little Green
16. The Delltones - Give Me
Some Loving
17. The Strangers - Melanie
Makes Me Smile
18. The Pied Pipers - Football
Meat Pies & Kangaoos
19. Fourth House - Wild World
20. Robin Jolly - Marshall's
Portable Music Machine
21. The Valentines - My Man's
A Groovy Old Man
Disk 2
1. Colleen Hewett - The Wind
Beneath My Wings
2. Matt Flinders - Butterfly
3. Liv Maessen - Knock Knock,
Who's There
4. Lee Conway - Amanda
5. Karen Knowles - Why Won't
You Explain
6. Captain Matchbox Whoopee
Band - My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes
7. Johnny Chester - The
World's Greatest Mum
8. Allison Durbin - I Was
Raised On Rock
9. Bill & Boyd - Santa
Never Made It Into Darwin
10. The Bushwackers - And The
Band Played Waltzing Matilda
11. Ross D. Wyllie - Sweet
White Dove
12. John Williamson - Old Man
Emu
13. Bluestone - Wind &
Rain
14. Frankie Davidson - Gimme
Dat Ding
15. The Abc Showband - The
Theme From Rush
16. The Hawking Bros - Me
& Bobby Mcgee
17. The Two Man Band - Up
There Cazaly
18. Ann & Johnny
Hawker - Cinderella Rockefella
19. Franciscus Henri - Mary
& Me
20. Joe Dolce - Shaddup You
Face
