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
The Boys Light Up (song) The Boys Light Up (song) "The Boys Light Up" is the second single and title track released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl from their debut album "The Boys Light Up" (1980). The song was written by lead singer James Reyne Australian Crawl's producer David Briggs was the Little River Band's guitarist, and had helped them to a recording contract with EMI. "The Boys Light Up" peaked at #22 on the Australian Singles Chart. The song contains the neologism "dorseted", to rhyme with "corseted". "People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the