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
I Want to Know What Love Is In 1985, the New Jersey Mass Choir released the Prelude Records album entitled "I Want to Know What Love Is". The album's fifth track, "I Want to Know What Love Is", was released as a single in the gospel music market which garnered several awards within the industry. "I Want to Know What Love Is" was covered by Australian singer Tina Arena and her recording was released as a single in 1998 from her album "In Deep". Arena's version of the song was produced by Foreigner band member Mick Jones, who wrote the song. This version of the song includes