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DESCRIPTION ITEM: VINYL 12" LP 33 1/3 RPM
ARTIST: BOB HUDSON
TITLE: Newcastle Song
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: M7, MLF-083 (1974)
COVER: (Grade at NEAR MINT-)
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
VINYL: (Grade at MINT-)
TRACKS:
Side 1
1. J.L. Budgerigar (Jonathan Livingston Budgerigar) - Musical narrative parody of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
2. Living it Up on the Dole - A comedy about living by claiming unemployment benefits under multiple names.
3. R Certified Song - A song about a girl with a well endowed bottom.
4. Clarissa - A song about teenage acne.
5. Motor Car Song - A song about youth and car obsession.
6. Christened My Dog - A song about what a wanna-be does to try to fit in.
7. Librarian Lady - A song stereotyping women by their occupation.
8. Teenage Cremation - Youth, Cars and Road Deaths.

Side 2
1. Who's Your Friend.
2. I Never Was Born Like Mel.
3. The Girls In Our Town - A song about the trials and tribulations of young women.
4. The Newcastle Song - The core of the record; a comical reflection of teenage growing pains in Newcastle.
5. No More Songs.

PERSONNEL:
Geoff Oakes-tenor & baritone sax, flute, swanee whistle
Dave Ellis-string bass, electric bass, funny noises
Chris Neal-moog, melotron, mandolin, electric guitar
Judy Bailey-piano, electric piano, ratchet
Doug Gallagher-drums, percussion, more funny noises
Bob Hudson-vocals, 12 string, ukulele, tambourine, guitar with FRAP pickup
COMMENT: Wikipedia
"The Newcastle Song" was a 1975 hit for musician and comedian Bob Hudson. It poked fun at the working-class youth culture of the City of Newcastle in NSW. The song was recorded in front of a live audience in 1974.

The basic story-line concerns a young man called Normie who goes out with his mates looking to pick up women in Newcastle's main street, Hunter Street, in their "hot - F.J. Holden". They encounter a young lady and her Hells Angel date outside the "Parthenon Milk Bar". Apparently, the Parthenon Milk Bar survived in Hunter Street into the 1990s as a local business. Bob Hudson later went on to work at the ABC's 2JJ radio station in Sydney as a DJ, after it started broadcasting in 1975.

A 'reply hit' to "The Newcastle Song" called "Rak Off Normie", sung from the woman's point of view, was released by Maureen Elkner later in 1975 and was a top ten hit.

Hudson also wrote Girls in our Town, a more serious look at the position of young women in towns like Newcastle, which was performed by Margret RoadKnight.

The Newcastle song spent 4 weeks at number one in early 1975 in the Australian charts.

The Newcastle Song is an album about life in Newcastle, NSW, Australia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. If you replace references to the steel mill (The Major industry) and Hunter Street (The main street) it could be about almost any town or non-capital city in Australia.

LYRICS:
THE NEWCASTLE SONG- Bob Hudson

Chorus:
Dont' you ever let a chance go by,
O Lord,
Don't you ever let a chance go by.
Yes, up in Newcastle they have very strange mating habits.
All the young women of Newcastle
walk down the main street
which is called Hunter Street
for reasons that will become obvious
later on in the song.
All the young men of Newcastle
drive down Hunter Street
in their hot FJ Holdens
with chrome plated grease nipples
and double reverse
overhead twin cam door handles,
sitting eight abreast in the front seat,
and they lean out of the window
and say real cool things to the sheilas
on the footpath, like 'Aah g'day'.
And every now and then, of course,
one of the young ladies thinks to herself
Ummmm
she thinks
Ummmmm.

Don't you ever let a chance go by, oh Lord
Don't you ever let a chance go by
Chorus
Anyway there was this mob of blokes
driving down Hunter Street
in the front seat of the hot FJ
with chrome plated grease nipples
and twin overhead foxtails,
and the coolest of them all,
who got to sit near the window,
was young Norm.
And they pulled up outside
the Parthenon milk bar
and standing outside
the Parthenon was this beautiful looking sheila.

Oooh! Oooh! said young Normie
who'd come top of his class in English,
Ooooh! he said.
So he leaned out of the window,
and he said real, real suave like,
he said G'day.
This nine foot tall Hell's Angel
came out of the Parthenon milk bar,
looked at Norm and said
Arr, what are ya?
Norm said What are you?
Bloke on the footpath said
D'ya want a go, do ya mate, eh?
Norm said Yeah, d'you want a go, mate?
Bloke on the footpath said
Yeah I'll have a go
Norm said
D'you know who you're picking?
The bloke on the footpath said
Nah, who am I picking?
Norm said
You find out
And all of a sudden there was a break in the traffic,
and as any young Newcastle lad knows-
when you're getting monstered
by a nine foot tall Hells Angel
and there's a break in the traffic....

Chorus

Don't you ever let a chance go by, oh Lord
Don't you ever let a chance go by

VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

MINT:
RECORD: New condition with no surface marks or loss of sound quality.
COVER: New condition with no surface marks, creases or wear.
NEAR MINT:
RECORD: Barely noticeable surface mark with no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
EXCELLENT:
RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
VERY GOOD:
RECORD: Obviously been played with noticeable surface marks & the occasional light scratches but exhibits no major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
GOOD:
RECORD: Very obviously been played with very noticeable surface marks & exhibits major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable folding, scuffing of spine or edges, splits in seams or spine or fading of colour.
FAIR:
RECORD: Still just playable & exhibits considerable surface noise.
COVER: Major tears, wearing, splits & stains.
POOR:
RECORD: Will not play properly due to scratches etc.
COVER: Very badly damaged.
+(PLUS)/-(MINUS):
Slightly up or down in condition as appears in the comments above.
NOTE:
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