| “Farewell Aunty Jack” | ||
|---|---|---|
| Single by Grahame Bond | ||
| Released | 1974 | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Label | Polydor Records | |
| Writer(s) | Rory O'Donoghue & Grahame Bond | |
| Certification | gold record in Australia | |
"Farewell Aunty Jack" was the closing theme to The Aunty Jack Show, played at the end of each episode. Events January - The Ramones form January - Joni Mitchell releases her monumental album Court and Spark, supported In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie -award winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. It was re-recorded and released as a hit single in late 1973 and spent 3 weeks at number one in the charts in Australia in March 1974. The following lists the number one singles on the Australian Singles Chart during the 1970s The music was written by Rory O'Donoghue, who also did the singing as the character "Thin Arthur", whereas "Aunty Jack" (Grahame Bond) provided wise-cracks and other spoken commentary to the lyrics, addressed to the listener and the singer.
The single had Aunty Jack threatening listeners to listen to this song closely, otherwise I'm gonna jump through your speakers and rip yer bloody arms off, whereas on the TV show, Aunty Jack threatened to jump through the television screen and rip yer bloody arms off, if viewers didn't watch the show the following week.
The vinyl single was released on Polydor Records and some picture-vinyl copies of the single were also pressed. Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.