Country music radio, TV and film. Slim Dusty (1927–2003) was known as the "King of Australian Country Music" and helped to popularise the Australian bush ballad. 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, and with over seven million record sales in Australia he is the most successful artist in Australian musical history. Dusty recorded and released his one-hundredth album in the year 2000 and was given the honour of singing "Waltzing Matilda" in the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Dusty's
Duncan (Slim Dusty song) Golden Anniversary Album" and appeared on eight subsequent albums: "Beer Drinking Songs of Australia" (1986), "91 Over 50" (1996), "The Very Best of Slim Dusty" (1998), "The Man Who Is Australia" (2000), "A Piece of Australia" (2001), "Slim Dusty Live" (2006), "Pubs, Trucks & Plains" (2008) and "The Very Best of Slim Dusty" (2013). When Australian Labor Party politician Duncan Kerr was running for the Division of Denison in Tasmania in 1987, his advertising campaign was based on the song "Duncan". Kerr won the seat and remained the local member until 2010. Dusty re-recorded the song with Rolf Harris in