The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103454   Message #2107967
Posted By: Bob Bolton
20-Jul-07 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
G'day Peace,

It's worth keeping in mind that a popular singer, as Slim was, inevitably has other people's songs "credited" to him. Two obvious examples in your list are:

The Pub With No Beer: © Gordon Parsons (even if he did pinch most of the words from Paddy Sheehan's 1941 poem A Pub Without Beer ... and the tune from the first part of Stephen Foster's Beautiful Dreamer!)

Gum Trees By The Roadway was the title of an earlier popular Australian song ... (~)'20/'30s. I'm not sure if Slim's rendition is his own - or a case of him reviving an old favourite.

Regards,

Bob