Australian country music

Would he still be waiting on day three? At the merry-go-round midnight.

You're listening to the Aussie Country Music Weekly Top 20.

Here is number nine.

Music

Like tequila in Mexico.

You're listening to the Aussie Country Music Weekly Top 20.

Here is number 11.

Have you got a weather dad? He checks the forecast every hour or so.

sell that tale you tell This whole town knows you're doing well to the ground ain't nothing quite so loud that's when brick by brick the house comes crashing down Fool me twice, now my lesson's learned I hope you're proud to hang your hat On the bridges that you've burned Sell that tale you tell This whole town

knows you do it well Run your mouth

into the ground You're listening to the Aussie Country Music Weekly Top 20.

Here is number five.

Reg Lindsay won.

The win led immediately to a recording contract with Rodeo Records and a spot on a radio show called On the Melody Trail on 2KY, alongside a roster of names that reads now like a roll call of the golden era of Australian country music.

Joy McKean, her younger sister Heather McKean, Gordon Parsons, who wrote A Pub With No Beer, and Slim Dusty.

The program had been running since 1949 and it was the centre of Sydney's country music world, a gathering place for the musicians who were building, performance by performance and broadcast by broadcast, an Australian country music scene that didn't yet have that name but was becoming something.

Reg Lindsay was new to it and quick about it.

Within months, he was established as a performer.

Three Golden Guitars for Best Male Vocal across six years.

The Country and Western Hour finished in 1972, but it was followed by Reg Lindsay's Country Homestead on Brisbane's Channel 9, which ran for four years until 1982 and won Logie Awards for Queensland's most popular show in both 1978 and 1979. two television shows, hundreds of young artists given their moment on national television, more than 500 songs written, 65 albums, 250 singles.