Half a Cow Half a Cow Half a Cow is an independent record label from Australia, established in 1990 by Sydney musician and music identity Nic Dalton. In 1987 - 1989 Dalton ran a bookshop (owned by Dalton's parents) in the Sydney suburb of Glebe called Dalton's Books. In late 1989, Dalton and his friend Miles Ferguson, took over the store, renamed it Half A Cow and started stocking more comics, records and tee-shirts than the 'beat' books they had been concentrating on. At the same time, they started Half A Cow Records and started working on the label's first release, "Billiepeebup" (hac01,
About a Quarter to Nine About a Quarter to Nine "About a Quarter to Nine" is a popular song written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and published in 1935 by M. Witmark & Son, New York. The songwriting partnership of Dubin and Warren wrote "About a Quarter to Nine" for the 1935 musical film "Go into Your Dance", directed by Archie L. Mayo and starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler. In the film the song is introduced by Jolson. This song and the satirical song "She's a Latin from Manhattan" were the most successful songs from the movie. The song was used again in