“Duncan” (often referred to as “I’d love to have a beer with Duncan”, after a line in the song) was written by Pat Alexander (born in Sydney, NSW, in 1937), and performed by Slim Dusty (David Gordon Kirkpatrick), whose recording of it reached #1 on the singles charts in 1980. The song has since been […]
Duncan (I’d love to have a beer with Duncan) [music videos, sung by Slim Dusty and various artists]
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A Pub With No Beer [music videos, sung by Slim Dusty]
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“A Pub With No Beer” was written by Gordon Parsons, performed by Slim Dusty (David Gordon Kirkpatrick), and released in April 1957 as the B side to one of Slim Dusty’s other recordings; it was enormously popular, becoming the only Australian 78 rpm song to be made a “gold record”, and it reached #1 on […]
Slim Dusty [music videos]
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David Gordon Kirkpatrick, commonly known as “Slim Dusty”, was an Australian country music singer and songwriter. He was born on 13 June 1927 in Kempsey, New South Wales, to a farming family; he died at the age of 76 at his home in St Ives, New South Wales, on 19 September 2003. Slim Dusty produced […]
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