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Bob Hudson is an Australian singer and radio presenter, best known for The Newcastle Song (which topped the Australian charts for four weeks in 1975) and Girls in Our Town (a Top 40 hit for Margret RoadKnight).
The Newcastle Song that was released as a single was actually an edited version of a much longer stage rant that was featured on the the Newcastle Song Album.
Further releases for Bob Hudson include the album After me Cat left home and the album Party Pieces.
He was a DJ for ABC rock radio station 2JJ in Sydney in the 1970s, and later worked for 2BL, presenting the Music Buffs' Talk Back Show with Glenn A. Baker.
The Newcastle Song:
"The Newcastle Song" was a 1975 hit that 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.
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.
Above text taken from Wikipedia.
Bob Hudson is an Australian singer and radio presenter, best known for The Newcastle Song (which topped the Australian charts for four weeks in 1975) and Girls in Our Town (a Top 40 hit for Margret RoadKnight).
The Newcastle Song that was released as a single was actually an edited version of a much longer stage rant that was featured on the the Newcastle Song Album.
Further releases for Bob Hudson include the album After me Cat left home and the album Party Pieces.
He was a DJ for ABC rock radio station 2JJ in Sydney in the 1970s, and later worked for 2BL, presenting the Music Buffs' Talk Back Show with Glenn A. Baker.
The Newcastle Song:
"The Newcastle Song" was a 1975 hit that 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.
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.
Above text taken from Wikipedia.
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