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
Get Ready (The Temptations song) was produced by Motown writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland. In 1967, Dusty Springfield performed a live version of the song at the British Broadcasting Corporation's television series "Dusty". In 1970, The Miracles finally released their own cover version of the song on their 1970 album "A Pocket Full of Miracles". The song was Ella Fitzgerald's last US chart record (1969), reaching the Billboard "Bubbling Under The Top 100" survey and the Record World "Non-Rock Top 40". Australian singer Carol Hitchcock released a version of the song which was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman in 1987 that became a moderate hit in