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
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