Arts in Australia country music, which has developed a style quite distinct from its US counterpart, influenced by Celtic folk ballads and the traditions of Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Pioneers of popular country music in Australia included Tex Morton in the 1930s and Smoky Dawson from the 1940s onward. Slim Dusty (1927–2003) was known as the "King of Australian Country Music". His successful career spanned almost six decades and his 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
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