Australian country music Regal Zonophone label including "Old Bush Shanty Of Mine" and "Stockman's Lullaby". He toured with Willard (Bill) Ferrier's Famous Hillbillies in what was Sydney's first all-country format variety shows and became the voice of Australia's iconic Peters Ice Cream as the "Peter's Singing Cowboy". Reynolds achieved notoriety through song and screen performances worldwide, and later established 2 world records for yodeling. Slim Dusty (AM) (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
The Great Australian Adjective The Great Australian Adjective The Great Australian Adjective is a humorous poem by English writer and poet W. T. Goodge. It was first published in "The Bulletin" magazine on 11 December 1897, the Christmas issue of that publication, and later in the poet's only collection "Hits! Skits! and Jingles!". The poem was originally published with the title "-----!", a subtitle of "The Great Australian Adjective" and was signed as by "The Colonel", a regular pseudonym of Goodge's. The poem is written with a number of words "blanked out", allowing the reader to substitute whatever they choose. For example: <poem> The