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The Great Australian Songbook

Posted by: David Prior | 22 November, 2011 - 8:36 PM

Steve Kilby, Murray Olds, Iva Davies & Murray Wilton on 2UE

THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN SONGBOOK

Unquestionably one of the most ambitious projects of recent history, The Great Australian Songbook features 40 of Australia’s finest recording artists performing a selection of the best Australian music from the ‘Last Century’ (CD 1) and ‘This Century’ (CD 2).

The iconic cover art pays tribute to Sir Sidney Nolan’s ‘Ned Kelly’ (1946) and is an original work by acclaimed Australian artist Rolf Harris, commissioned specifically for this release.

The Great Australian Songbook will be available in two formats;

Standard Edition, 2 CD

Release date : Friday 4 November, 2011

The ‘music only’ option presented as a standard double CD.

Deluxe Journal Edition, 2 CD, 90-page

Release date : Friday 25 November, 2011

The Deluxe Journal Edition features the two CD’s in a 90-page hardback journal presented in a gift box. Each artist created their own double-page spread with handwritten lyrics, artwork, photos and memorabilia and even the odd anecdote - anything they thought would bring their song to life.

Highlights Include:

Midnight Oil’s handwritten lyrics to ‘Beds Are Burning’, their tour itinerary and notes from their 1986 ‘Black Fella White Fella’ Tour.

Hunters & Collectors included their original lyrics for ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’, written over 20 years ago.

Colin Hay contributed his lyrics while on tour in Brazil and provided the real story behind ‘Down Under’.

Kylie Minogue has written in her own hand what ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ means to her.

Steve Kilbey and John Butler provided original paintings as visual interpretations of ‘Under The Milky Way’ and ‘Zebra’ respectively.

Gurrumul’s double-page spread features a photo of his mother, Daisy, and his Aboriginal lyrics are embossed onto the page in braille.

The last minute addition of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’.

MIDNIGHT OIL Beds Are Burning

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Where The Wild Roses Grow

GURRUMUL Djarimirri

JOHN FARNHAM You’re The Voice

Australian artists have been delighted to be involved with The Great Australian Songbook;

“It’s a great honour for me to be included in the Great Australian Songbook... to be in that select company is a great honour indeed”.

- Iva Davies, Icehouse

“I’m thrilled to be part of the Great Australian Songbook ... I’ve been really taken with the presentation of the stories around the songs”

- Mark Callaghan, Ganggajang

“To think that one day I’d write a song and someone would say ‘can we put it in our songbook!’ It’s great”.

- Steve Kilbey, The Church

The Great Australian Songbook follows the same successful format as The Great New Zealand Songbook brand, which has already achieved 12x platinum status.

Tracklisting:

CD 1 : LAST CENTURY

1 Rolf Harris - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (Intro)
2 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
3 Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
4 INXS - Need You Tonight
5 Men At Work - Down Under
6 The Church - Under The Milky Way
7 Mondo Rock - Come Said The Boy
8 John Farnham - You’re The Voice
9 Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock
10 The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
11 Skyhooks - Living In The 70’s
12 Paul Kelly - Dumb Things
13 GANGgajang - Sounds of Then (This Is Australia)
14 Little River Band - Cool Change
15 Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You
16 Australian Crawl - Reckless (Don't Be So)
17 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow

(Feat. Kylie Minogue)
18 Icehouse - Great Southern Land
19 You Am I - Heavy Heart
20 Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me

CD 2 : THIS CENTURY
1 JET - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
2 Powderfinger - My Happiness
3 Silverchair - Straight Lines
4 Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
5 The Veronicas - 4ever
6 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
7 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
8 The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
9 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (Feat. Kimbra)
10 John Butler Trio - Zebra
11 Delta Goodrem - Born To Try
12 Pete Murray - So Beautiful
13 The Middle East - Blood
14 Missy Higgins - Where I Stood
15 Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane
16 Sarah Blasko - All I Want
17 Alex Lloyd - Amazing
18 Gurrumul - Djarimirri
19 The Living End - Wake Up
20 Wolfmother – Woman