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
Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) ever was one single song designed to be released by that label, it would be this outlandishly winsome little pop tune from a 80's band that's as out of place as it is out of time. But then, if life was as excellent as Pynchon novels, sweet little nothing Go-Betweens would be stars." Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) "Going Blind" is the first single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens taken from their seventh studio album, "The Friends of Rachel Worth". It was released as a CD single by W. Minc Records (the label of their former manager, Steve Miller)