Slim Dusty saw major metropolitan music radio stations abandon support for country artists, and despite record sales in the multimillions, after the 1950s, Dusty was rarely heard on-air outside regional centres in Australia. Dusty's 1957 hit "A Pub with No Beer" was the biggest-selling record by an Australian to that time, the first Australian single to go gold and the first and only 78 rpm record to be awarded a gold disc. (The "Pub with No Beer" is a real place, in Taylors Arm, not far from Kempsey where Slim was born.) In 1959 and 1960, Dutch and German cover versions of
Go Wild in the Country Go Wild in the Country "Go Wild in the Country" is a single by English new wave band Bow Wow Wow from their album "See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!". Released in January 1982 by RCA Records, it was their first top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart. "Go Wild in the Country" was written by Malcolm McLaren with band members Matthew Ashman, Dave Barbarossa and Leigh Gorman. Produced by Brian Tench, it was Bow Wow Wow's first single not be produced by McLaren. The January 1982 release of "Go