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Rock music and pop music [videos]

9 January 2012 · 1 Comment

The front cover of a Johnny O’Keefe single (vinyl record)
Australian rock and roll, pop music, and Top 40 hits. Songs, singers, musicians, and groups. Mostly pop and rock from the 1950s up to the present. Arranged chronologically by years of prominent activity.

Johnny O’Keefe [rock singer, 1956 to 1978]

Slim Dusty [country music singer and songwriter, 1956 to 2003]

song: A Pub With No Beer [Slim Dusty, 1957]

The Groop [rock band, 1964 to 1969]

Masters Apprentices [rock band, 1965 to 1972]

Brian Cadd [singer and songwriter, 1966 to present]

Axiom [rock band, 1969 to 1971]

Spectrum [rock band, 1969 to 1973]

The Bushwackers [folk music band, 1971 to present]

song: Eagle Rock [Daddy Cool, 1971]

The Dingoes [country rock band, 1973 to 1979]

The Angels [rock band, 1974 to 2000]

song: The Newcastle song [Bob Hudson, 1975]

song: C’mon Aussie C’mon [the Mojo Singers, 1978]

Divinyls [rock band, 1980 to 1997]

Wallis and Matilda [folk music band, 1980 to present]

song: Clancy of the Overflow [Wallis & Matilda, 1980]

song: Duncan (also known as “I’d love to have a beer with Duncan”) [Slim Dusty, 1980]

song: Down Under (also known as “I Come From a Land Down Under”) [Men At Work, 1981]

song: Great Southern Land [Icehouse, 1982]

song: I Was Only 19 [Redgum, 1983]

song: Sounds of Then (also known as “This is Australia”) [sung by Gang Gajang, 1985]

The Pigs [bluegrass band, 2007 to present]

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