RIP to Judith That's why it was their finally Judith had a stroke just before doing this She was paralysed down one side why sitting on stool and moc only in one hand You'll notice a droop in her face But it didn't take her beautiful voice They told her not to bother and rest Her reply was ill be there im not missing this About 9mnths later she pasted You have to ❤ more of the Aussie spirit to the end Yes they're folk style singer's many hits her in Australia 🇦🇺 Cheers guys 🦘👍🇦🇺
Elton John once said that Judith Durham possesed 'the purest voice in poular music'. I'm not one for patriotism and flag waving but I can't listen to I am Australian without feeling pride in my country and shedding a few tears of emotion.
Our first group to make a dint overseas in the UK and U.S…..in the 60’s…..Morningtown Ride, World of Our Own, I’ll Never Find Another You, Georgy Girl, Carnival is Over, Someday OneDay, Lemon Tree….. Judith Durham ( RIP) had a beautiful voice….. she also had a Jazz solo career.
Aussie here, who has been overseas numerous times. My time limit away from home is 2 weeks, and then I start to get teary and want to come home. My sister and I took our respective children to the US and we stopped in Honolulu on the way back and my son and I stayed one night and got an early flight and came home, leaving my sister and her two boys to enjoy beautiful Honolulu on their own, and it was her birthday. But I was so homesick and miserable so they changed our flights for nothing and we came home early. I’d been to Honolulu before so I knew it was beautiful but homesickness over takes everything else for me. I’m sure that others feel the same way about their own country but this place is special and beautiful and so hard to be away from.
I'm actually Canadian and I grew up on both artists. My parents were really into The Seekers, but Peter Allen also fell into their collection. I don't have an opinion on either song, but if you do revisit either artist, maybe do Peter Allen's 'Tenterfield Saddler' and The Seekers 'The Carnival Is Over'. I lived in Australia in the late 70's and early 80's, but most of my time was spent in the inner cities of Melbourne and Sydney, and I only just touched upon the rural areas. Best times in my life.
The Seekers are worth review they have a number of unique achievements. They are a folk / pop group from the 60s. Peter Allen was a talented singer songwriter and was married to Liza Minnelli prior to coming out. Australia airline Qantas use “I still call Australia home” in their ads with the children’s choir, and after Covid using many Australian expatriates in the ad. Both these songs would bring a tear to a glass eye.
Hello, C & C: Both songs are very nice. The Seekers have been one of my favourite groups for a long time. Judith usually sings lead but the men have some very nice songs where they sing lead. Two nice ones in particular are Rattler and I Wish You Could Be Here. It's a hard pick but my favourite is probably All Over The World followed by The Carnival Is Over and I'll Never Find Another You.
The Seekers had lots of hits, particularly during the '60s, ones that I recommend are: "I'll Never Find Another You", "Georgy Girl", "A World of Our Own", "Morningtown Ride", "The Carnival Is Over", "Waltzing Matilda". There are many more but these are good ones to continue with.
Peter Allen that you reacted to first also has another incredible song called "Tenterfield Saddler" which was written about his own grandfather George Wallnough who was the original Tenterfield Saddler, Tenterfield is a town in the New England region of New South Wales way back in the 1890's the New South Wales and Australian government were looking to expend the rail line from Grafton into Brisbane Queensland at one stage they were looking at carrying on up through the Gwydir Range to Glenn Innes and then into parts of Western Queensland. At the time we had two towns competing for the rail line with Tenterfield and Timbarra(on the Gwydir Range). The government chose the cheaper route and went up through Tamworth through Tenterfield and into Western Queensland before the trains terminated at Roma St Station in Brisbane. Because of the decision by the government the settlement of Timbarra fell apart and was mostly recaptured by the bush.
I am a Canadian who came to Australia in the mid 60s as an immigrant. Yes, sometimes Canadians leave Canada for the hot, dry bottom of the planet. Within hours of stepping of the airplane, I was in love with the place. I live in Adelaide in South Australia, which is somewhere between a very large country town, and a small city. I am still a proud Canadian. But I am also a proud Australian, (It's allowed). Of course I have been back to Canada for visits. But the great redeeming feature of Australia is that in winter I don't get buried under snow. Canadians and Australians are more alike, and have more in common than either are willing to admit.
I went to Canada for my best mates wedding. I turned $10 into $37 at Niagara Fallsview Casino before fleeing the country. Had a great time in Canada, everyone was cool, I felt pretty comfortable
I don’t know…I don’t know anyone who’d deny it! Aussies swear more. Canadians are better at handicrafts. We surf, you ski. Football - hockey. Taipans - cougars. Meh. It’s all weather-related superficiality. One thing I will say: my brother-in-law is from BC, and it did take an excruciatingly long time for him to learn to stop wasting water and turn off the friggin taps!😂 🇨🇦🇦🇺
RIP Peter Allen (born Peter Richard Woolnough; 10 February 1944 - 18 June 1992) was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, energetic performances, and lavish costumes. Allen's songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Elkie Brooks, Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, including Newton-John's first chart-topping hit "I Honestly Love You", and the chart-topping and Academy Award-winning "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" by Christopher Cross. Allen was the first husband of Liza Minnelli. They met in October 1964, were engaged on 26 November 1964, married on 3 March 1967, formally separated on 8 April 1970, and divorced on 24 July 1974. Allen becoming one of the first well-known Australians to die from AIDS. Allen remained ambiguous about his sexuality in that he did not pretend to be heterosexual after divorcing Minnelli, but never publicly came out as gay either. The Seekers were an Australian folk-influenced pop group originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were especially popular during the 1960s, with their best-known configuration of Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourine; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo and vocals; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals. Peace out.
Thank You Both, your love for our wonderful country is crystal clear which is why so many of us follow you. We love our beauitful unique land and are proud to share it if it is appreciated. Both of these songs are us, no matter where we travel there is a place we will always call home Australia. It was so wonderful to see our beautiful Judith Durham again such a special lady in all the meanings that word can be taken, she is still missed as is Peter Allen RIP Judith and Peter and TY for the beautiful music we are lucky to be left with. Yes there is blue Grass here.. Keep Safe Keep Strong 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤❤❤🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵
No flamingoes in Australia. Peter Allen was married to Liza Minelli. He died a long time ago. The Seekers were folk singers in the 1960s. Judith died relatively recently.
Peter Allen, who wrote and performed I Still Call Australia Home, was a highly successful musician. A closeted gay man, he moved to the US and became a protegé of Judy Garland. He married her daughter Liza Minelli. He wrote Tenterfield Saddler and I Go To Rio, if you want to check out different styles of his music. Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1992, aged just 48. As for The Seekers, this song always makes me cry. RIP Judith Durham ❤
Peter Allen was a very successful Australian performer married Liza Minelli then later came out. He sadly passed away 1992. His other hits are Rio and had a musical written for him called "The Boy from Oz". The Seekers are the most popular folk band with hits on the Global level since the 60's. Judith Durham passed away in 2022 from a congenital respiratory condition. Lake Hillier along with many other pink lakes in Australis does have halobacteria which produces a pigment called bacterioruberin, which spreads across the entire bacterial cell and contributes to the pink hue. Flamingos do NOT get their pink feathers from this. They get the pink colour from consuming shell fish like prawns and lots of them... (you call them shrimp) the lakes are also perfectly safe to swim in. The animals that Cynthia (hope I spelled your name correctly) are Sugar Gliders, Bilby's, Possums, The Australian Masked Owl and Wallabies. Cheers.
Im so glad they didn't. Im not saying saying that it isn't good, seeing kylie and hugh jackman sing in it is great. But this is Peter's song, not a qantas ad.
Thank you! It is truly appreciated. I'm feeling somewhat sheepish, but am also happy to see these two songs reach you. I should have chosen to be polite instead of grumbling.
I Still Call Australia home is widely used by one of our airline companies, Qantas. So many renditions. There is one done by a lot of stars including Hugh Jackman, Kylie Minogue etc. I do feel patriotic whenever either song plays. RIP to Judith Durham from the Seekers.
Some context for I am Australian. Albert Namatjira was an Indigenous painter of landscapes. Ned Kelly was an infamous bush ranger, or outlaw who wore armour he fashioned himself. A Matilda is rolled up bedding, called a swag, strung across the back and carried by a swaggie, or hobo as he travels through the bush looking for odd jobs. The swag moves back and forth as he walks, like it’s dancing, or waltzing. Hence Waltzing Matilda. A digger is usually a term of endearment for a returned soldier, a bushie is someone who lives in the bush, as opposed to a city slicker. A battler is someone who has a hard life.
5:14 The rock you’re seeing onscreen at that pause is Uluru, a sandstone monolith that’s very close to the centre of Australia’s landmass. It’s a sacred site to the Pitjantjatjara people of the region. It has been a big tourist attraction for decades but the was controversy due to people climbing it (it had tours including climbs, and stairs cut into it with handrail type of assistance, but it was something you needed to be a little bit fit for if you didn’t want to struggle up and/or down it). It was known as Ayer’s Rock for a long time but officially got handed back a few decades ago and it’s now closed to climbing in deference to the Aboriginal people and their beliefs. When it was being handed back they did a documentary and asked some bands to contribute to the soundtrack. Midnight Oil put forth three songs, including Beds Are Burning and The Dead Heart. The Dead Heart won, and as a consequence the band was invited to do a tour of the remote outback regions to see life in many remote Aboriginal communities. The band ended up making the album Diesel And Dust which was heavily influenced by that experience. Songs on that album give an emotional connection to that vastness like Bullroarer (which references a special communication device some Aboriginals use to make whirring sounds that carry over long distances via a piece of carved wood being spun around like a propellor from a leather thong) or Gunbarrel Highway.
It's hard to be certain given some of the footage, but the animals you saw at the start of the first video are as follows (in order of appearance); - A species of sugar glider. These are small possums about the size of your palm that have skin flaps that extend between the hind leg and foreleg on each side of the body, allowing them to glide through the air from tree trunk to tree trunk (just like flying squirrels... or a human wearing a wingsuit - we take inspiration from nature all the time). They're nocturnal and though omnivorous, they derive their common name from their predilection for sugary meals of nectar and tree sap. - A greater glider (we just see a single shot of this one emerging from its tree hollow). These are larger than sugar gliders, with a body size that ranges depending on the exact species from about guinea pig sized to domestic cat sized and they have a great long bushy tail that's about 1.5 - 2 times its body length. Like sugar gliders, they have skin flaps along their flanks that are used to glide from tree to tree. They are nocturnal herbivores, primarily eating eucalyptus leaves. - An owl species. I'm leaning towards it being an Australian Masked Owl given the relatively dark markings on its face and wings, but it's hard to tell from just the one shot of it when there are a handful of other species it could be (perhaps someone with superior owl identifying skills can confirm or deny my identification). I'm sure most people know what owls are, what they eat, etc. so the next animal was... - A bettong species - hard to tell which from this footage alone, but given its size and colouring I think this one is either a Tasmanian Bettong or a Northern Bettong (again, maybe somebody else can give their opinion). Bettongs are small marsupials with different species ranging from the size of a guinea pig to that of a large rabbit. They are wallaby-like in their body morphology and hop about in the same manner, though their faces have a bit more of a rodent-like appearance. They prefer grassy forest habitat and typically make nests/beds in ground depressions amongst brush or rocky outcrops for passing the daylight hours (we saw the one in this footage carrying bedding material with its prehensile tail), though one species , the burrowing bettong, as its name suggests does burrow. They are nocturnal omnivores, feeding on a varied diet of fungi, roots and tubers, leaves, invertebrates, fruits, and seeds. - Grey kangaroos on the beach... which most people are likely familiar with, so I won't go into detail on them. I hope some find this informative/interesting. 😄👍
You need to do the QANTAS ad using the Peter Allen song. It’ll make you cry. That orange rock is Uluṟu, or used to become called Ayres Rock. In the heart of Australia. A sacred place to our indigenous people. The pink water are salt lakes and also cause by aglae. In the Qantas ad there is a place called Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia which is two shaded of pink.
I recall an old comedian doing a bit about visiting Australia and the oddities of its geography, wildlife, and peoples. At one point he observed something like “chatting with locals in a pub, you’ll be told countless times that Australia is ‘God’s own country’ or ‘the best farkin’ country in the world’, and that the annoying thing is that they may actually be right.”
Great songs and good reactions. As you can see by the view count, these songs are anthems in Australia. I'm pleased you didn't stop in the middle of ''I Am Australian''. Australian Country music and folk often has its own distinctive angle.
My kids don't understand ''I Still Call Australia Home'' and ''True Blue''. Those songs are from a capture in Australian history that will never be repeated. You had to have come out of the 60's and 70's to understand those songs. It makes me sad to think that ''True Blue'' is a prophetic song, and that like Peter Allen himself, ''I Still Call Australia Home'' is something that can only be truly felt by those that were there. ''I Am Australian'' attempts to unify all Australians, which is nice. Thank you for listening. Teehee ;-)
Peter Allen was well known in the USA and he married Liza Minelli for a while.. The Seekers first recoded songs 50 years before this farewell as they retired. Judith Durham had a stroke before this btw. The men now in their 80s are still active.
And what I like most about these songs is that they were written by Australians. The same can't be said for ''Working Class Man'' and ''You're The Voice''.
Like Rhonda, I too would like to apologize for my comments on the other videos. I was a bit grumpy for not getting to see these two songs. It's very gracious to do today's videos for us whingers down here in Australia.
Peter Allen was quite big in the USA and huge on the gay concert circuit . When he married Liza Minelli he became even bigger. Wrote many hit songs for many singers from Frank Sinatra to Olivier Newton - John, and won an Acadamy Award for Arthurs Theme , sung by Christopher Cross. His best song ( but not his most succesaful ) was Tenterfield Saddler, about his own grand father, who was the Tenterfield saddler. Still Call Australia Home was of course his own song, until QUANTAS stole it for a TV add and made it their own......a very big and expensive add using many choirs including the Australian Youth Choir......mostly primary school kids.
Nice to hear a reaction to Peter Allen, the writer of the song, instead of the usual twee Qantas advertisement version. Pity you couldn’t do one of the actual live performances. Copyright problems?
Very nice songs, the seekers song explains Australia well. Another song that was a cover was sang by the Seekers in the early 70's called "Morningtown Ride". It was played to me when I was at kindergarten. Anyway, to learn more about Australia and its people check out the Video I sent to you guys earlier before this Reaction. It will blow your mind. Cheers.
G'day. The Rock is huge and is in the TOP 3 most recognisable Australian landmarks. The Opera house and Harbour bridge being the other 2. I'll let the comments section argue what order they should be.
The seekers pushed the Beatles of no 1 on the hit parade in Britain and performed at the same show with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who! I'd surprised if he seekers had ever heard of Blue Grass. The band member on the cello co-wrote "I am Australian". 29% of people living in Australia were born in another country (USA only 12%).
@@rhonda_hart4982 It should be! Don't knock Chris Franklin! You got your way today.. My mate's been waiting for his song to be done on the channel for two years!
@@Robbo766 awww poor Robb's mate, bro your mates song request sucks was ok for 2 weeks when it was released, was maybe even fitting at the time, but it's shit
If you want to check out The Seekers back in the 60’s when they were starting to be huge, check I’ll Never Find Another You recorded at Abbey Road Studios. I think Judith’s still a teenager.
Both these songs have been used multiple times in various ad campaigns to very good effect. Some Australians like to be very outwardly patriotic with flags and the like, but as a general rule the fervent patriotism that we see in the USA is a little scary to many of us. But most will view these two songs as good reminders of both our strengths and our darker chapters, and enjoy them for these aspects.
😲What a delightful surprise! I do like both songs, though the Peter Allen song strikes me a little deeper. I love Judith Durham's voice, but I adore some Peter Allen songs. I would absolutely LOVE you guys to do his cover of ''The More I See You'' on one of your shows. He performed it on Countdown back in the 70's, and we all thought he was great. 🐕
Peter Allen was at one stage, married to Liza Minelli (before he came out of the closet). He had a few decent songs, but I'm not a huge fan. The Seekers were great if you are into that folkie vibe. Thanks for doing these, and I hope you enjoyed them.
7:39 Not sure if that isn’t a mismatch of scenarios. There’s a number of pink lakes in Western Australia and South Australia, but it is a salt-related phenomenon. They can be all sorts of reds, oranges, and pinks. The colour of Flamingoes is due to prawns (shrimp) they eat (along with plankton). We don’t have them in Australia.
they was show called the Don Lane show which after he had song his song ...don asked him if he had any songs he was working on and he said this song ...and he played it and you could tell it was a hit straight away ...he had only finished it but he repeated the first verse again there was not backing music just the Piano
That really little critter in the tree was a possum I think and the smaller roo is called a wallaby, that particular one was carrying nesting material with it's tail. But there is a tinier one called a kangaroo rat and another similar one with bigger ears, the bilby, which we often have chocolate versions of for Easter and the proceeds go to rescuing them. All very cute, so not everything wants to kill you in Australia. 😂 Always loved this song, no matter who does it, but you might have noticed that Peter Allen phrases things a little differently to the seekers version. My favourite seekers song is Georgie girl, written as an inspiration from an old movie. Other faves are a world of our own, Morningtown ride, I'll never find another you and the carnival is over, which we used to sing in primary school, along with Morningtown ride. One of Peter Allen's most popular songs is I go to Rio. I don't know many of his songs though, but he sang with a lot of the big names back then, specially when he was married to Lisa Minnelli for a short time.
@@barbararees604 Yeah, I'm pretty sure the first possum is one of our sugar glider species. There's also a shot of a larger glider species, the greater glider, sticking it's head up out of its tree hollow. As for the "smaller roo," that's actually a bettong (not sure which species, maybe the Tasmanian bettong or the northern bettong). They're wallaby-like in their body morphology, but are smaller and have a bit of a narrower rodent-like face.
You will probably enjoy ‘Never find another you’ and ‘Georgie Girl’ by the Seekers. I hate that Chris Franklin Bloke song but you might get a laugh I guess.
5:57 Not sure what animal was being filmed. There’s a number of hopping marsupials similar to kangaroos here. That was quite possibly a potaroo. It looked too small to be a wallaby, which is much more like a juvenile kangaroo in appearance. There’s lots of similar animals. Quokkas are another. I know it sounds like I’m making this stuff up, but that’s what some US town sound like to Australians. Boogertown, anyone? Buttzville? Zzyzx?
@@hanierfamily Awesome. But my original thinking was actually their more serious names like Saskatchewan and similar. I went looking for those sort of examples and got the more intentionally funny/dumb instead.
@@hanierfamily As an aside, Australia has its share of unfortunate names. There’s a town a little north of Melbourne called Kilmore. Needless to say its hospital is one of the more unfortunately named care facilities around. We also have the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool, named posthumously after one of our Prime Ministers. Who died in office (more specifically disappeared assumed drowned) whilst swimming in the open ocean off the coast of Victoria. How’s those for some poorly thought out names?
The Peter Allen song was used by a Telco in an advertising campaign. Quantas used the seekers song for years as well. The seekers have been around since the 1960's. Judith is no longer with us.
The Dream time is, I guess the equivalent of our religion. Personally, I prefer their idea of the spirits and mother earth. Digeridoo is the European name Yidaki is one of the names from Arnhem Land. There are others from around the country.
Regarding The Seekers - they were Australia's first international singing group success overseas. You would have heard of their other songs over the years. One was used in a movie called GEORGIE GIRL. This is the 1967 version of the song on the Ed Sullivan show in the US: ua-cam.com/video/PP2zeZDZoOw/v-deo.html
@@hanierfamily ua-cam.com/video/RN1lhv3xYFM/v-deo.html You might like to look at this Ed Sullivan one from 2 years prior in 1965 A WORLD OF OUR OWN. It is being analysed and Keith (one of the band on 12 string guitar) placed a comment 3 years ago on this analysis - top of the comments.
It's a shame that this performance was so poorly captured. There are 4 seekers, though you wouldn't know it from watching this clip. Enjoyed your reaction though!
G'day Hanier family ❤️ da blog awesome just let use know that I'm indigenous Scottish Wales person before Australia from the Northern Territory that's the top part of Australia if only that song was true Australia would be the best place but like America & Canada the same thing happen here to the natives stolen land my indigenous people was here for 80,000 thousands years Australia is the oldest land first of very thing land & animals & people & cultural I ❤️ this country because I'm a descendants from darwin & the desert Alice Springs way I'm born & breed Territory man 👍 🤟 ❤ ✌️ & stay 💪
Everyone on earth has the same story......we have all lost our ancestral homes. Real people take their land back or just get on with life.....losers and bludgers whimper , sulk and complain about life until nature takes them away and gives the living some peace .
@Rassskle mate were do you live do you know any5hing about Australia ?? Of we live on our land & we know it's our but Australian government doesn't wrecking
@@WilliamMcLennan-v7h You are a liar. The very different tribes of the Aboriginal people NEVER owned the land.....they continued to travel.. ..move about. Some believed that the land owned them, like a god.....but not all. Lived in Australia over 70 years and only left our land for one solitary month in New Zealand. How long have you lived in Australia ? Why do you know so little about your own people ?
I'm cranky because you didn't play Cold Chisel's "'You Got Nothing I Want'' and Chris Franklin's ''Bloke'' on Australia Day.. Those two songs capture the essence of the Australian spirit more than these two pretentious hokey pokey national anthem-reaching blue grass ballads.
It would be nice if we could appreciate Australia without the interference of Boganism. Those songs do not capture the essence of the Australian spirit.
Of course the song "I am Australian" is not Bluegrass. Just because it may have similarities to American Bluegrass tunes does not make it Bluegrass as the Australian music industry and players have developed their own style of music by themselves and definitely not by slavishly copying another nation's music which actually has little revelance to most Australians. And to push the point home, when did you ever hear the melodious sound of a real didgeridoo in a bona fida Bluegrass song?
So sorry guys but your way off. No way that's blue grass. Your obviously not familiar with Irish/ Aussie folk music. By the way, the first Australians didn't come from all over the world. They existed(oldest living civilisation) for over 65,000 years isolated from the rest of the world. The Seekers song gives a tip of the hat to the our original inhabitants. The song is also about acceptance of diversity of cultures since European settlement. PS Peter Allen was around years before Billy Joel. He was banging on the keys back in Tenterfield as a kid in the 1950s .Flaningos are not native to Australia. Hope this helps.
Even though I Still Call Australia Home was written in 1980, I still get tears in my eyes listening to it and I'm 65 years old.
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Same!
RIP to Judith
That's why it was their finally
Judith had a stroke just before doing this
She was paralysed down one side why sitting on stool and moc only in one hand
You'll notice a droop in her face
But it didn't take her beautiful voice
They told her not to bother and rest
Her reply was ill be there im not missing this
About 9mnths later she pasted
You have to ❤ more of the Aussie spirit to the end
Yes they're folk style singer's many hits her in Australia 🇦🇺
Cheers guys 🦘👍🇦🇺
Elton John once said that Judith Durham possesed 'the purest voice in poular music'. I'm not one for patriotism and flag waving but I can't listen to I am Australian without feeling pride in my country and shedding a few tears of emotion.
These songs make me homesick for a place I've never been.
These songs make me home sick... and I'm here in Australia! 😂
Everything I was going to say has already been said by others
Judith Durhams voice is one of the purest you will ever hear
RIP Judith
Our first group to make a dint overseas in the UK and U.S…..in the 60’s…..Morningtown Ride, World of Our Own, I’ll Never Find Another You, Georgy Girl, Carnival is Over, Someday OneDay, Lemon Tree….. Judith Durham ( RIP) had a beautiful voice….. she also had a Jazz solo career.
And to think this was their last concert, the music was still spot on.
You really need to listen to the Seekers, they had so much beautiful music. All Australians were so proud of them and their music!
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Aussie here, who has been overseas numerous times. My time limit away from home is 2 weeks, and then I start to get teary and want to come home. My sister and I took our respective children to the US and we stopped in Honolulu on the way back and my son and I stayed one night and got an early flight and came home, leaving my sister and her two boys to enjoy beautiful Honolulu on their own, and it was her birthday. But I was so homesick and miserable so they changed our flights for nothing and we came home early. I’d been to Honolulu before so I knew it was beautiful but homesickness over takes everything else for me. I’m sure that others feel the same way about their own country but this place is special and beautiful and so hard to be away from.
The Seekers were world famous in their time.
Thank you for playing Peter Allen. A few of his other great hits. “Not the Boy Next Door”, “Tenterfield Saddler”, “I Go to Rio”.
I'm actually Canadian and I grew up on both artists. My parents were really into The Seekers, but Peter Allen also fell into their collection. I don't have an opinion on either song, but if you do revisit either artist, maybe do Peter Allen's 'Tenterfield Saddler' and The Seekers 'The Carnival Is Over'. I lived in Australia in the late 70's and early 80's, but most of my time was spent in the inner cities of Melbourne and Sydney, and I only just touched upon the rural areas. Best times in my life.
the seekers are australian royalty the best
The Seekers are worth review they have a number of unique achievements. They are a folk / pop group from the 60s.
Peter Allen was a talented singer songwriter and was married to Liza Minnelli prior to coming out.
Australia airline Qantas use “I still call Australia home” in their ads with the children’s choir, and after Covid using many Australian expatriates in the ad.
Both these songs would bring a tear to a glass eye.
I'll Never Find another You is fantastic by the Seekers
Hello, C & C: Both songs are very nice. The Seekers have been one of my favourite groups for a long time. Judith usually sings lead but the men have some very nice songs where they sing lead. Two nice ones in particular are Rattler and I Wish You Could Be Here. It's a hard pick but my favourite is probably All Over The World followed by The Carnival Is Over and I'll Never Find Another You.
The Seekers had lots of hits, particularly during the '60s, ones that I recommend are:
"I'll Never Find Another You",
"Georgy Girl",
"A World of Our Own",
"Morningtown Ride",
"The Carnival Is Over",
"Waltzing Matilda".
There are many more but these are good ones to continue with.
Peter Allen that you reacted to first also has another incredible song called "Tenterfield Saddler" which was written about his own grandfather George Wallnough who was the original Tenterfield Saddler, Tenterfield is a town in the New England region of New South Wales way back in the 1890's the New South Wales and Australian government were looking to expend the rail line from Grafton into Brisbane Queensland at one stage they were looking at carrying on up through the Gwydir Range to Glenn Innes and then into parts of Western Queensland. At the time we had two towns competing for the rail line with Tenterfield and Timbarra(on the Gwydir Range). The government chose the cheaper route and went up through Tamworth through Tenterfield and into Western Queensland before the trains terminated at Roma St Station in Brisbane. Because of the decision by the government the settlement of Timbarra fell apart and was mostly recaptured by the bush.
The Peter Allen version is the original and the BEST! To me. he is the only that has the right to sing I Still Call Australia Home.
I am a Canadian who came to Australia in the mid 60s as an immigrant. Yes, sometimes Canadians leave Canada for the hot, dry bottom of the planet. Within hours of stepping of the airplane, I was in love with the place. I live in Adelaide in South Australia, which is somewhere between a very large country town, and a small city. I am still a proud Canadian. But I am also a proud Australian, (It's allowed). Of course I have been back to Canada for visits. But the great redeeming feature of Australia is that in winter I don't get buried under snow. Canadians and Australians are more alike, and have more in common than either are willing to admit.
Canadians are basically just cold Aussies and Aussies are just warm Canucks
I went to Canada for my best mates wedding. I turned $10 into $37 at Niagara Fallsview Casino before fleeing the country. Had a great time in Canada, everyone was cool, I felt pretty comfortable
I don’t know…I don’t know anyone who’d deny it!
Aussies swear more. Canadians are better at handicrafts. We surf, you ski. Football - hockey. Taipans - cougars.
Meh. It’s all weather-related superficiality.
One thing I will say: my brother-in-law is from BC, and it did take an excruciatingly long time for him to learn to stop wasting water and turn off the friggin taps!😂
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Oh, we love our Canadian cousins, no problem admitting the similarities from me ❤
We've always liked Canadians! No problem admitting that at all 😊
RIP Peter Allen (born Peter Richard Woolnough; 10 February 1944 - 18 June 1992) was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, energetic performances, and lavish costumes. Allen's songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Elkie Brooks, Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, including Newton-John's first chart-topping hit "I Honestly Love You", and the chart-topping and Academy Award-winning "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" by Christopher Cross. Allen was the first husband of Liza Minnelli. They met in October 1964, were engaged on 26 November 1964, married on 3 March 1967, formally separated on 8 April 1970, and divorced on 24 July 1974. Allen becoming one of the first well-known Australians to die from AIDS. Allen remained ambiguous about his sexuality in that he did not pretend to be heterosexual after divorcing Minnelli, but never publicly came out as gay either. The Seekers were an Australian folk-influenced pop group originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were especially popular during the 1960s, with their best-known configuration of Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourine; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo and vocals; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals. Peace out.
Thank You Both, your love for our wonderful country is crystal clear which is why so many of us follow you. We love our beauitful unique land and are proud to share it if it is appreciated. Both of these songs are us, no matter where we travel there is a place we will always call home Australia. It was so wonderful to see our beautiful Judith Durham again such a special lady in all the meanings that word can be taken, she is still missed as is Peter Allen RIP Judith and Peter and TY for the beautiful music we are lucky to be left with. Yes there is blue Grass here..
Keep Safe Keep Strong
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No flamingoes in Australia. Peter Allen was married to Liza Minelli. He died a long time ago. The Seekers were folk singers in the 1960s. Judith died relatively recently.
Peter Allen, who wrote and performed I Still Call Australia Home, was a highly successful musician. A closeted gay man, he moved to the US and became a protegé of Judy Garland. He married her daughter Liza Minelli. He wrote Tenterfield Saddler and I Go To Rio, if you want to check out different styles of his music. Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1992, aged just 48. As for The Seekers, this song always makes me cry. RIP Judith Durham ❤
Peter Allen was a very successful Australian performer married Liza Minelli then later came out. He sadly passed away 1992. His other hits are Rio and had a musical written for him called "The Boy from Oz". The Seekers are the most popular folk band with hits on the Global level since the 60's. Judith Durham passed away in 2022 from a congenital respiratory condition. Lake Hillier along with many other pink lakes in Australis does have halobacteria which produces a pigment called bacterioruberin, which spreads across the entire bacterial cell and contributes to the pink hue. Flamingos do NOT get their pink feathers from this. They get the pink colour from consuming shell fish like prawns and lots of them... (you call them shrimp) the lakes are also perfectly safe to swim in. The animals that Cynthia (hope I spelled your name correctly) are Sugar Gliders, Bilby's, Possums, The Australian Masked Owl and Wallabies. Cheers.
You should also watch the Qantas Choir singing I still call Australia home, it's fabulous with great clips taken around Australia ❤
Yes, this!
Im so glad they didn't. Im not saying saying that it isn't good, seeing kylie and hugh jackman sing in it is great. But this is Peter's song, not a qantas ad.
@dvdsmith2550 might be Peter's song but I think the kids choir sang it much better.
Thank you! It is truly appreciated. I'm feeling somewhat sheepish, but am also happy to see these two songs reach you. I should have chosen to be polite instead of grumbling.
I Still Call Australia home is widely used by one of our airline companies, Qantas. So many renditions. There is one done by a lot of stars including Hugh Jackman, Kylie Minogue etc.
I do feel patriotic whenever either song plays.
RIP to Judith Durham from the Seekers.
Some context for I am Australian. Albert Namatjira was an Indigenous painter of landscapes. Ned Kelly was an infamous bush ranger, or outlaw who wore armour he fashioned himself. A Matilda is rolled up bedding, called a swag, strung across the back and carried by a swaggie, or hobo as he travels through the bush looking for odd jobs. The swag moves back and forth as he walks, like it’s dancing, or waltzing. Hence Waltzing Matilda. A digger is usually a term of endearment for a returned soldier, a bushie is someone who lives in the bush, as opposed to a city slicker. A battler is someone who has a hard life.
We don’t have bluegrass here. They were 60’s folk singers who were huge.
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The rock you’re seeing onscreen at that pause is Uluru, a sandstone monolith that’s very close to the centre of Australia’s landmass.
It’s a sacred site to the Pitjantjatjara people of the region.
It has been a big tourist attraction for decades but the was controversy due to people climbing it (it had tours including climbs, and stairs cut into it with handrail type of assistance, but it was something you needed to be a little bit fit for if you didn’t want to struggle up and/or down it). It was known as Ayer’s Rock for a long time but officially got handed back a few decades ago and it’s now closed to climbing in deference to the Aboriginal people and their beliefs.
When it was being handed back they did a documentary and asked some bands to contribute to the soundtrack.
Midnight Oil put forth three songs, including Beds Are Burning and The Dead Heart. The Dead Heart won, and as a consequence the band was invited to do a tour of the remote outback regions to see life in many remote Aboriginal communities.
The band ended up making the album Diesel And Dust which was heavily influenced by that experience.
Songs on that album give an emotional connection to that vastness like Bullroarer (which references a special communication device some Aboriginals use to make whirring sounds that carry over long distances via a piece of carved wood being spun around like a propellor from a leather thong) or Gunbarrel Highway.
It's hard to be certain given some of the footage, but the animals you saw at the start of the first video are as follows (in order of appearance);
- A species of sugar glider. These are small possums about the size of your palm that have skin flaps that extend between the hind leg and foreleg on each side of the body, allowing them to glide through the air from tree trunk to tree trunk (just like flying squirrels... or a human wearing a wingsuit - we take inspiration from nature all the time). They're nocturnal and though omnivorous, they derive their common name from their predilection for sugary meals of nectar and tree sap.
- A greater glider (we just see a single shot of this one emerging from its tree hollow). These are larger than sugar gliders, with a body size that ranges depending on the exact species from about guinea pig sized to domestic cat sized and they have a great long bushy tail that's about 1.5 - 2 times its body length. Like sugar gliders, they have skin flaps along their flanks that are used to glide from tree to tree. They are nocturnal herbivores, primarily eating eucalyptus leaves.
- An owl species. I'm leaning towards it being an Australian Masked Owl given the relatively dark markings on its face and wings, but it's hard to tell from just the one shot of it when there are a handful of other species it could be (perhaps someone with superior owl identifying skills can confirm or deny my identification). I'm sure most people know what owls are, what they eat, etc. so the next animal was...
- A bettong species - hard to tell which from this footage alone, but given its size and colouring I think this one is either a Tasmanian Bettong or a Northern Bettong (again, maybe somebody else can give their opinion). Bettongs are small marsupials with different species ranging from the size of a guinea pig to that of a large rabbit. They are wallaby-like in their body morphology and hop about in the same manner, though their faces have a bit more of a rodent-like appearance. They prefer grassy forest habitat and typically make nests/beds in ground depressions amongst brush or rocky outcrops for passing the daylight hours (we saw the one in this footage carrying bedding material with its prehensile tail), though one species , the burrowing bettong, as its name suggests does burrow. They are nocturnal omnivores, feeding on a varied diet of fungi, roots and tubers, leaves, invertebrates, fruits, and seeds.
- Grey kangaroos on the beach... which most people are likely familiar with, so I won't go into detail on them.
I hope some find this informative/interesting. 😄👍
The Seekers are quite good. Very uplifting song. Thumbs 👍 Up
Quite good? The Seekers have sold millions of records!
You need to do the QANTAS ad using the Peter Allen song. It’ll make you cry. That orange rock is Uluṟu, or used to become called Ayres Rock. In the heart of Australia. A sacred place to our indigenous people. The pink water are salt lakes and also cause by aglae. In the Qantas ad there is a place called Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia which is two shaded of pink.
I recall an old comedian doing a bit about visiting Australia and the oddities of its geography, wildlife, and peoples.
At one point he observed something like “chatting with locals in a pub, you’ll be told countless times that Australia is ‘God’s own country’ or ‘the best farkin’ country in the world’, and that the annoying thing is that they may actually be right.”
Hi guys fun fact. Peter Allen was married to Liza Minelli, Judy Garland's daughter.
Tears in my eyes, best songs.
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Two songs that have definitely come to good use in the advertising world.
Our national carrier Qantas uses this song in their adverts and have done for many years. You should watch it. Very good.
Great songs and good reactions. As you can see by the view count, these songs are anthems in Australia. I'm pleased you didn't stop in the middle of ''I Am Australian''.
Australian Country music and folk often has its own distinctive angle.
RIP JUDITH AND PETER.
Good on ya
The stage musical “Boy from Oz” is based on Peter Allen’s life story. Hugh Jackman starred in its original US run.
My kids don't understand ''I Still Call Australia Home'' and ''True Blue''. Those songs are from a capture in Australian history that will never be repeated. You had to have come out of the 60's and 70's to understand those songs. It makes me sad to think that ''True Blue'' is a prophetic song, and that like Peter Allen himself, ''I Still Call Australia Home'' is something that can only be truly felt by those that were there. ''I Am Australian'' attempts to unify all Australians, which is nice.
Thank you for listening. Teehee ;-)
Peter Allen was well known in the USA and he married Liza Minelli for a while..
The Seekers first recoded songs 50 years before this farewell as they retired.
Judith Durham had a stroke before this btw.
The men now in their 80s are still active.
And what I like most about these songs is that they were written by Australians. The same can't be said for ''Working Class Man'' and ''You're The Voice''.
The Seekers came to fame when in the UK in 1964 Tom Springfield heard them wrote a song which took them to to the UK number 1.
Like Rhonda, I too would like to apologize for my comments on the other videos. I was a bit grumpy for not getting to see these two songs.
It's very gracious to do today's videos for us whingers down here in Australia.
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Peter Allen was quite big in the USA and huge on the gay concert circuit .
When he married Liza Minelli he became even bigger.
Wrote many hit songs for many singers from Frank Sinatra to Olivier Newton - John, and won an Acadamy Award for Arthurs Theme , sung by Christopher Cross.
His best song ( but not his most succesaful ) was Tenterfield Saddler, about his own grand father, who was the Tenterfield saddler.
Still Call Australia Home was of course his own song, until QUANTAS stole it for a TV add and made it their own......a very big and expensive add using many choirs including the Australian Youth Choir......mostly primary school kids.
I've been Australian since my ancestor arrived on the first fleet 237 years ago.
Nice! The scenes of the ''Still Call Australia Home'' video makes me feel proud of being Australia - more so than the two songs.
@@autoberry1 I love the scenes and the words🇦🇺
@@paulineryan579 I'm all for the scenes.. But that's just me
No Flamingoes in Australia? the rest was real including our Angel Judith, she is sadly missed RIP
Australian Bluegrass musician here. I`m not the only one, I think there is another one living in Comebychance and yes it`s a real place.
Our best known lady bluegrass musician is currently taking the USA by storm via her cover of Lose Yourself, by Eminem on U Tube.
Nice to hear a reaction to Peter Allen, the writer of the song, instead of the usual twee Qantas advertisement version.
Pity you couldn’t do one of the actual live performances. Copyright problems?
This version was suggested.
Very nice songs, the seekers song explains Australia well.
Another song that was a cover was sang by the Seekers in the early 70's called "Morningtown Ride".
It was played to me when I was at kindergarten.
Anyway, to learn more about Australia and its people check out the Video I sent to you guys earlier before this Reaction. It will blow your mind. Cheers.
Australiana by Austen Tayous?
G'day. The Rock is huge and is in the TOP 3 most recognisable Australian landmarks. The Opera house and Harbour bridge being the other 2. I'll let the comments section argue what order they should be.
The seekers pushed the Beatles of no 1 on the hit parade in Britain and performed at the same show with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who!
I'd surprised if he seekers had ever heard of Blue Grass.
The band member on the cello co-wrote "I am Australian".
29% of people living in Australia were born in another country (USA only 12%).
Check out more Seekers. when I was 6 years old in 1964 I loved the Beatles and the Seekers
Hey C & C you can Up Stage them all with a Canadian Reaction.
Just play Neil Youngs acoustic version of "Cowgirl in the Sand" it is very good!
I'm sorry for getting angsty at the two of you. I appreciate your work. Thank you. 🙏♥
Angsty = whinging
@@Robbo766 🤨Says the bloke that thinks ''Bloke'' should be done on Australia Day. 🙄
@@rhonda_hart4982 It should be! Don't knock Chris Franklin! You got your way today.. My mate's been waiting for his song to be done on the channel for two years!
@@Robbo766 He can wait for another 10!
@@Robbo766 awww poor Robb's mate, bro your mates song request sucks was ok for 2 weeks when it was released, was maybe even fitting at the time, but it's shit
If you want to check out The Seekers back in the 60’s when they were starting to be huge, check I’ll Never Find Another You recorded at Abbey Road Studios. I think Judith’s still a teenager.
Both these songs have been used multiple times in various ad campaigns to very good effect.
Some Australians like to be very outwardly patriotic with flags and the like, but as a general rule the fervent patriotism that we see in the USA is a little scary to many of us. But most will view these two songs as good reminders of both our strengths and our darker chapters, and enjoy them for these aspects.
Cynthia, you said the Seekers style sounds like Bluegrass. The seekers style is a blend of folk music and Aussie Bush music, hence the similarity
😲What a delightful surprise! I do like both songs, though the Peter Allen song strikes me a little deeper. I love Judith Durham's voice, but I adore some Peter Allen songs. I would absolutely LOVE you guys to do his cover of ''The More I See You'' on one of your shows. He performed it on Countdown back in the 70's, and we all thought he was great. 🐕
Who's song is he covering?
@@hanierfamily Chris Montez
There are no flamingos in Australia also the pink lakes are in Western Australia
Peter Allen was at one stage, married to Liza Minelli (before he came out of the closet). He had a few decent songs, but I'm not a huge fan.
The Seekers were great if you are into that folkie vibe.
Thanks for doing these, and I hope you enjoyed them.
You might also like "spirit of the anzacs" by Lee kernaghan
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Not sure if that isn’t a mismatch of scenarios.
There’s a number of pink lakes in Western Australia and South Australia, but it is a salt-related phenomenon. They can be all sorts of reds, oranges, and pinks.
The colour of Flamingoes is due to prawns (shrimp) they eat (along with plankton). We don’t have them in Australia.
they was show called the Don Lane show which after he had song his song ...don asked him if he had any songs he was working on and he said this song ...and he played it and you could tell it was a hit straight away ...he had only finished it but he repeated the first verse again there was not backing music just the Piano
That really little critter in the tree was a possum I think and the smaller roo is called a wallaby, that particular one was carrying nesting material with it's tail. But there is a tinier one called a kangaroo rat and another similar one with bigger ears, the bilby, which we often have chocolate versions of for Easter and the proceeds go to rescuing them. All very cute, so not everything wants to kill you in Australia. 😂
Always loved this song, no matter who does it, but you might have noticed that Peter Allen phrases things a little differently to the seekers version.
My favourite seekers song is Georgie girl, written as an inspiration from an old movie. Other faves are a world of our own, Morningtown ride, I'll never find another you and the carnival is over, which we used to sing in primary school, along with Morningtown ride.
One of Peter Allen's most popular songs is I go to Rio. I don't know many of his songs though, but he sang with a lot of the big names back then, specially when he was married to Lisa Minnelli for a short time.
@@barbararees604 Yeah, I'm pretty sure the first possum is one of our sugar glider species. There's also a shot of a larger glider species, the greater glider, sticking it's head up out of its tree hollow. As for the "smaller roo," that's actually a bettong (not sure which species, maybe the Tasmanian bettong or the northern bettong). They're wallaby-like in their body morphology, but are smaller and have a bit of a narrower rodent-like face.
@TrentRidley Cool, thanks, I can't see so well on my phone, that's all I have to access the internet with.
Soooooo.... Startin' to feel the Aussie scenery overdose coming on... yet!?
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You will probably enjoy ‘Never find another you’ and ‘Georgie Girl’ by the Seekers. I hate that Chris Franklin Bloke song but you might get a laugh I guess.
No flamingos in Australia
We don't have flamingos in Australia???
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Not sure what animal was being filmed. There’s a number of hopping marsupials similar to kangaroos here. That was quite possibly a potaroo. It looked too small to be a wallaby, which is much more like a juvenile kangaroo in appearance.
There’s lots of similar animals. Quokkas are another.
I know it sounds like I’m making this stuff up, but that’s what some US town sound like to Australians.
Boogertown, anyone? Buttzville? Zzyzx?
Dildo, Newfoundland. How about that?
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Awesome.
But my original thinking was actually their more serious names like Saskatchewan and similar. I went looking for those sort of examples and got the more intentionally funny/dumb instead.
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As an aside, Australia has its share of unfortunate names.
There’s a town a little north of Melbourne called Kilmore. Needless to say its hospital is one of the more unfortunately named care facilities around.
We also have the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool, named posthumously after one of our Prime Ministers.
Who died in office (more specifically disappeared assumed drowned) whilst swimming in the open ocean off the coast of Victoria.
How’s those for some poorly thought out names?
There is not a great deal of Flamingos in Australia. That pink lake has nothing to do with Flamingos getting their pink colour.
I'm too ADHD to focus on either song. I reckon we need to Chisel! 😆
The Peter Allen song was used by a Telco in an advertising campaign. Quantas used the seekers song for years as well. The seekers have been around since the 1960's. Judith is no longer with us.
We're a patriotic mob down here but not bat shit crazy like the Yanks, just proud.
Wallabies and Pademelon is what you're probably thinking of when you mention the kangaroo creatures
The Dream time is, I guess the equivalent of our religion.
Personally, I prefer their idea of the spirits and mother earth.
Digeridoo is the European name
Yidaki is one of the names from Arnhem Land. There are others from around the country.
Both artists are national treasures. Unfortunately, some Australians think that honour should be given to Chris Franklin.
😆Did Robbo's suggestion bother you that much?
Judith was our Karen Carpenter!
The little kangaroos are wallabies
Bluegrass?? Well they have been doing it for over 50 years then. It is folk music.
Regarding The Seekers - they were Australia's first international singing group success overseas. You would have heard of their other songs over the years. One was used in a movie called GEORGIE GIRL. This is the 1967 version of the song on the Ed Sullivan show in the US: ua-cam.com/video/PP2zeZDZoOw/v-deo.html
We do know that song from our childhoods.
@@hanierfamily ua-cam.com/video/RN1lhv3xYFM/v-deo.html You might like to look at this Ed Sullivan one from 2 years prior in 1965 A WORLD OF OUR OWN. It is being analysed and Keith (one of the band on 12 string guitar) placed a comment 3 years ago on this analysis - top of the comments.
I thing Great Southern Land by Icehouse outdoes both of these.
oooops, you have already
I haven't ever seen the ''I Still Call Australia Home'' video on your screen. How did you find it?
Rich963 put it up
It's a shame that this performance was so poorly captured. There are 4 seekers, though you wouldn't know it from watching this clip. Enjoyed your reaction though!
The seekers featured a lot in my life in the 1960s , my mum loved them, and I still do , the first one is not for me, 🏴✌️
G'day Hanier family ❤️ da blog awesome just let use know that I'm indigenous Scottish Wales person before Australia from the Northern Territory that's the top part of Australia if only that song was true Australia would be the best place but like America & Canada the same thing happen here to the natives stolen land my indigenous people was here for 80,000 thousands years Australia is the oldest land first of very thing land & animals & people & cultural I ❤️ this country because I'm a descendants from darwin & the desert Alice Springs way I'm born & breed Territory man 👍 🤟 ❤ ✌️ & stay 💪
Everyone on earth has the same story......we have all lost our ancestral homes.
Real people take their land back or just get on with life.....losers and bludgers whimper , sulk and complain about life until nature takes them away and gives the living some peace .
@Rassskle mate were do you live do you know any5hing about Australia ?? Of we live on our land & we know it's our but Australian government doesn't wrecking
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You are a liar.
The very different tribes of the Aboriginal people NEVER owned the land.....they continued to travel.. ..move about.
Some believed that the land owned them, like a god.....but not all.
Lived in Australia over 70 years and only left our land for one solitary month in New Zealand.
How long have you lived in Australia ?
Why do you know so little about your own people ?
No it IS NOT bluegrass - it is Australian!
I'm cranky because you didn't play Cold Chisel's "'You Got Nothing I Want'' and Chris Franklin's ''Bloke'' on Australia Day.. Those two songs capture the essence of the Australian spirit more than these two pretentious hokey pokey national anthem-reaching blue grass ballads.
😐Really?
It would be nice if we could appreciate Australia without the interference of Boganism. Those songs do not capture the essence of the Australian spirit.
LOL, we'll get to those soon enough.🤣🤣
@ Give it a rest!
@ Look forward to it C & C!
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No flamingoes in Aus. Definitely not a native species.
Of course the song "I am Australian" is not Bluegrass. Just because it may have similarities to American Bluegrass tunes does not make it Bluegrass as the Australian music industry and players have developed their own style of music by themselves and definitely not by slavishly copying another nation's music which actually has little revelance to most Australians. And to push the point home, when did you ever hear the melodious sound of a real didgeridoo in a bona fida Bluegrass song?
So sorry guys but your way off. No way that's blue grass. Your obviously not familiar with Irish/ Aussie folk music. By the way, the first Australians didn't come from all over the world. They existed(oldest living civilisation) for over 65,000 years isolated from the rest of the world. The Seekers song gives a tip of the hat to the our original inhabitants. The song is also about acceptance of diversity of cultures since European settlement. PS
Peter Allen was around years before Billy Joel. He was banging on the keys back in Tenterfield as a kid in the 1950s .Flaningos are not native to Australia. Hope this helps.
So, not really sure why there are flamingos in the video about Australia, then.
What about Rolf Harris tie me kangaroo down sport? 😂
keep him
Who? And what? Must be something only old people know about.
@@antipodean_antonette lol ouch! 😆
If they did Rolf Harris on this channel they would lose every Aussie subscriber they have. We don’t support pedophilia.
we don't mention that name here he was disowned once his unsavoury activities became more commonly known
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