Arts in Australia country music, which has developed a style quite distinct from its US counterpart, influenced by Celtic folk ballads and the traditions of Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Pioneers of popular country music in Australia included Tex Morton in the 1930s and Smoky Dawson from the 1940s onward. Slim Dusty (1927–2003) was known as the "King of Australian Country Music". His successful career spanned almost six decades and his 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
Summer Is Over singer Liesbeth List released in the Netherlands a version of "Summer is Over" titled "Wie Weet" ("Who knows"), with Dutch lyrics by T. de Winter. Summer Is Over "Summer is Over" is a 1960s song, most notably sung by Dusty Springfield. The song's music and lyrics were composed by Tom Springfield and Clive Westlake. It was originally performed by English-born Australian easy listening and country music singer Frank Ifield in 1964 and released as a single, with the B-side being a version of Buddy Holly's "True Love Ways." In September of the same year, Tom's sister, singer Dusty Springfield, with