Slim Dusty - Rusty It's Goodbye
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2009
- This is a very sad song, but is indeed one of Slim's greatest classics --- CHECK OUT THIS 3 CD SET "REGAL ZONOPHONE COLLECTION" - 68 RARE TRACKS, ALL OF SLIM WHEN HE WAS JUST A TEENAGER!
R.I.P. Slim!
"Rusty It's Goodbye" is one of the most moving songs in Slim's history. I love dogs more than most people.
Heard this some 60 years ago when l was a pup. Liked it then n like it now.
i'm not crying you're crying!
I'm 74 and had to have my Miniature Schnauzer put to sleep two years ago and I know exactly how Rusty feels; it's the same thing only the other way round and by God it hurts .
Hey Sir, we have the same first name, and my father is almost the same age as you - born 1936. God willing you are still alive and well to read this. Cheers
I have this track on 78 if any one remembers them. Its one of my favourites my dad sang.
my grandpar passed away yesterday, he would always play this song. rip grandpar i love you mate :(
So sorry my great grandfather fought in World war One AND my Grand pa died before I got to say goodbye l had a nervous breakdown God bless you and your family l no how IT feels AND they would have loved this Ballard ❤❤✝️✝️😻😻🦘🦘🐨🐨😎😎😸😸😺😺👼👼🐬🐬💜💜🌞🌞
When they released 'Red Dog' the movie with 'the most famous dog in Australia'
I immediately thought 'what about Rusty?'
I've had 4 dogs in my life and each one felt like a son to me. Great song!
Such a sad wartime song - written by Rick and Thel Carey and recorded by Slim. I loved this song as a boy and love it now! We miss you Slim, and Thel too!
A great old Slim Dusty tune...
It was written by Thel Carey - one half of the great country duo Rick & Thel Carey.
Every time I hear this song I gotta give my dog a cuddle!
When Slim left us we all lost that one special person, No one has come close to Slim RIP mate and go Waltz Sing Matilda in Heaven
The only song in the world that after hundreds of listens still has the power to make me cry.
Ha yep.
+Isaac Raschke amen
+karl krueger You too.. Although I'm not in a religion.
Amanda Phillips got a good heart .on ya darling.
Amanda Phillips at school we did this for choir last term and I burst into tears.
❤❤❤but he doesn’t know his master lay on the battlefield to die he didn’t hear the soldier say rusty it’s good bye!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤I love it
i used to have to sing this in school,, i used to cry every time 😔🤙
This song reminds me of my little dingo pup I found him wondering out in the bush alone so I picked him up and named him RUSTY
❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉it’s the best ever I always listen to it ❤❤❤❤❤
SlimDustyMusic - Thanks for uploading. I remember this from my very earliest years. It was a good song then and it's a good song now. Some songs never grow old or die. Like Slim Dusty himself - what a legend!
What a great song...makes me tear up
I love this song and someone told me it's a true story about an Indigenous soldier who had a dog called Rusty and he left to go to the war.
Really loved this, song am a great fan of Slim Dusty💖
a feeling of lump in the throat as I hear this song.
My Dad used to play me this song and sing it but he slowed it down and it could always make me cry.
my father always played this song too and now my dad passed a few months back i still play it and sing along to it as we used :) its a beautiful song
It is, and I'm so sorry to hear that ):
+Matilda Duncan ..Beaut name..!!!
i learnt to play Guitar from old Slim songs,as a boy,
best slim track out there
❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉this is my favourite song I added it to my playlist and I liked it 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
thanks for posting this and sharing it greetings from uk kenny
my dog is called rusty and this song of slim,s remind,s me that he misses me when I go to town without him love him
My dog is also registered as Rusty too. And I often think of Slim when I am cuddling my dog althought the kids call him Chooee. This is definitely one of Slim and Joys greatests.
we do love our 4 legged. kids and will miss him when time comes as he is a diabetic and going blind so sad as it cost a fortune to have it fixed.
good old memoreys in this,
just like it was yesterday i used to listen to 2du on saterday night hillbillys
Dogs are true friends, aren't they? They still like you even if you're not very likeable. How many humans are like that?
Long Live Slim For ever
This song brought tears to my eyes......
What a tear jerker 😢
This song calls to mind another tragic scenario. Odysseus, after being away from home for twenty years (fighting the Trojan War for ten and being diverted for another ten trying to get home) arrives to find a hundred or so blokes trying to get hold of his household and wife; so he has to be very careful about how he makes his return known. He will be murdered if he is not careful. As he enters his court yard, his old dog, who must have been a very young dog when the war started, recognises his master and tries to greet him with a tail wag. Odysseus notices but dare not acknowledge the dog and passes by as though he's a stranger. Moments later the dog dies of a broken heart. How would you feel if you were Odysseus? I know how I felt just hearing about it...
mullumbimboy don't go to bed until your tired.
Yes, I remember the story of Argus from my childhood - faithful Argus.
glad I recalled this song
great to hear it again
thank you slimdustymusic
Amazing!! Happy days of many family road trips early eighties...ah lovely.
I love it
Whiskey, Trigger, Marley, three names of beloved dogs I had
Still listening 2023🤗💖
God I'm fighting hard to hold back tears.
Reminds me of my brothers dog.
Ya brother go to war? May god preserve him
One the first songs i ever listened to.
Still remember sitting on the veranda as a kid playing the old 78 record
monty their not a day that go:es by that i don:t think of you had to give u away cause of going oversea:s rusty its goodbye brings more than a lump to my throat i know you have a good family now for a red heeler he was the best love u mate
I understand that pain - our dog was a red heeler too.
Anyone know if this was based on a true story?? Most old style country songs were. Been listening to this since 1950's, still cry every time. Now I look at my little rusty coloured Pomeranian and get so sad that I might outlive him. He is so spoilt he sits at the front door when either of us in not home. So really can relate to poor Rusty here. Sure hope it was not a true story.
Yes, it hurts like hell. I miss mine very much too.
Listen to the answer to this great song by Rick and Thel Carey.
They wrote this song I think
I just subscribed cause I wan listen to more slim dusty songs
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all excellent,thankyou
Sweet song.robyn
F..k i write some shit, what's not shit is Slim Dusty is and will always be the best of the best
So moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slim dusty Don bradman and Phar lap (who was actually born in nz) are the three greatest australians for mine ... even if you are not a country music fan u r a slim dusty fan ... even if you are not a cricket fan you are a don bradman fan ... even if you are not a horse racing fan you are a phar lap fan ... getting back to this song i cannot work out for sure what war it is about ... can only think the first world war? or maybe the boer war?
+Bernie8330 I have always thought that Lord Howard Florey, one of the discoverers of penicillin, should be in that list. Because, great as those three are (and they are great) their influence has been limited to Australia (& Bradman a bit to the UK) whereas Florey's work is estimated to have saved over 81 million lives worldwide!
He was born in Adelaide 24 September 1898 & died in Canberra 21 February 1968.
Sir Robert Menzies, (arguably Australia's greatest conservative PM) considered him Australia's greatest.
+Bernie8330 As for which war, I think it must be the 2nd World War because it would've been written & released in the 1940's... Just after WW2 finished.
+EarlJohn61 No argument on Lord Howard Florey - I had just never heard of him. I was prolly only talking about more well known people and how they made people feel on a day to day basis when they were alive, rather than from the perspective of still saving lives long after their own is finished. Cheers and thanks.
+EarlJohn61 I don't know about that. Obviously Slim Dusty was only born 4 years after WW1, but I think an everyday Australian leaving his dog at the train station when going off to fight a war could prolly have more likely happened in WWI than II, and even more likely still in the Boer war. Still, it could be one of those things that has an eternal meaning and could relate to any war anywhere in any era before or since. Some of Slim's songs were based on personal experiences, others putting music to poems of others whose poems were based on personal experiences. An example is 'Sweeney' a poem Henry Lawson wrote after encountering a lonely drunk in a small outback NSW town in the late 19th century which Slim immortalised into a song. Cheers.
Bernie, the song does mention khaki, so I think it might actually be WW2. I'm not sure if khaki existed earlier...
It reminds of my dad when to war i was lucky dad came home 😂
Oh good love
So Thel Carey is co-writer of Rusty, It's Goodbye, cool. Your Love Mean More Than Life To Me, their song You and Me are cool duet, check that old Aussie favourite out
my little dog is called rusty and he goes everywhere we go
my red kelpie was rusty he had to be put down lung cancer aqnd i misss him
Yes, strange thing that, this song reminds me of the Disney movie about the old Scottish man with the little terrier. When the old fellow died and was buried in the village cemetery the little dog slept on his grave for years only ever venturing away for food and water. That movie tugged at my heart strings, one of my friends walked Three miles as a kid Into town to watch a Lassie movie, the one where Lassie dies. My mate walked back home bawling all the way back to his house. Kick a dog In the guts and they'll still come back to be by your side.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby
cool
man i've herd it on renbrens day
I had a dog called Rusty......60 years ago.....
just wonderin if ya found ya way yet.?
My cousin got killed at a railway crossing. His little dog was unhurt but had to be put down after the incident.
Thel Carey (of Rick and Thels) was a co-wrter of this song.
Hi John, I believed Thel Carey was the sole writer of this song. What do you know of it being co-written? Who was the co-writer?
Hi Brendan; according to the booklet accompanying my CD set "Slim Dusty Regal Zonophone Collection", the writers are "(Slim Dusty/Thel Carey) (with Joy McKean)".
clougha jack Thanks for that. Some further reading suggests Thel wrote the lyrics and slim set them to the melody. Joy was there as backing vocals on the recording :)
clougha jack : If anyone loves a feel good song of love to sing along with your partner, checkout Rick and They Carey ( You And Me).
You and me together, life's a pleasure, but without your love where would I be....gossiping tongues may never come between us, your love means more than life to me...."
Seen Rick and Thel Carey in concert in the 70's. In a place called Katanning. Awesome entertainers
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
It's called 'Rusty goes home.'
I WONDER IF RUSTY IS THE DOG WITHOUT AN OWNER BOB DYLAN SINGS OF, R I P S D.
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In the late 1950s the Australian Broadcasting Commission's radio station in New Guinea (9PA VLT6) used to play music on request. The most common song requested by natives was Rusty It's Goodbye. This was just 15 years after the end of WW2. I'm not sure whether they understood the words (eg: there was no railway there), or whether they liked the music, or whether they just liked to hear their names called out on the radio as people requesting the song. Nevertheless, every time the request show came on, this was the most frequently requested song.
As a side note: the ABC used to have a show called the Children's Hour, with a radio serial: "Tarzan, King of the Apes". As a 9-year old in Port Moresby in 1956 I once cycled over to the radio station to wait for Tarzan to come out. The naivety of kids.
In Port Moresby we "inherited" a cattle dog - because of quarantine restrictions, people could not take their dog with them when they returned to Australia. Our dog, a red heeler, was the most loyal, protective, loving family member. And then in 1961, after 6 years, we had to return to Australia and leave our dog to someone else. As I think of "Rusty It's Goodbye" I wonder how long it took (if ever) for our faithful dog to forget us. 58 years later I still feel sad about that.
wht bout the soldier .?he died.!!
that pore dog:(
@missmonaro im so sorry u must be sad ur poor dog!
wow this song must make you sad!!!R.I.P. your dog rusty....lets have a minute of silence soo sad! :(