Slim Dusty

Slim Dusty, one of the Kempsey Shire's most treasured musicians is being honoured on Google today. Today's 'Google Doodle' celebrates Slim Dusty's.

In his early twenties, Slim left the farm to follow a full-time music career performing his iconic Bush Ballads around the Australian countryside. In 1957, the bestselling song recorded by an Australian was released by Slim, ‘A Pub with No Beer’, earning him his first Gold Record. Throughout Slim’s career, he earned multiple accolades including Gold and Platinum awards and a massive 38 Golden Guitars.

It's a long way from Nulla Creek, New South Wales to be walking out with your guitar singing Waltzing Matilda at the Sydney Olympic closing ceremony.

"It's a long way from Nulla Creek to be walking out with your guitar and singing Waltzing Matilda at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Our family is immensely proud of what he achieved." He was also voted by the Australian public as an Australian National Treasure. His music lives on. It's a long way from Nulla Creek, New South Wales to be walking out with your guitar singing Waltzing Matilda at the Sydney Olympic closing ceremony. "He was granted permission to keep his hat on, as acknowledgement of how much the hat was a part of Slim Dusty," the Slim Dusty Centre said in a Facebook post.

Born David Kirkpatrick in Kempsey, NSW, and raised on his family farm in nearby Nulla Nulla Creek, Slim got started in music early. He penned his first song, “ ...

His music lives on.” Awards poured in during his lifetime. 24) features on Google’s homepage, a cartoon image of the Aussie singer, songwriter and guitarist switching out the search engine’s logo around the globe until midnight. He was appointed father of the year; senior Australian of the year; artist of the decade; the Australia Council’s achiever of the year, and made an Officer of the Order in Australia in 1998. He penned his first song, “The Way the Cowboy Dies”, at the age of 10, and the following year, decided on “Slim Dusty,” a stage name “much better suited to a singing cowboy,” reads a statement from Google. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame in 1988, during the inaugural ceremony, and had a coin pressed in his honour by the Royal Australian Mint.

Celebrated as a “typical Aussie”, the iconic Australian country music singer has today been celebrated by Google's doodle. Google's Doodle on October 24th ...

Slim Dusty was an Australian country music singer songwriter who recorded over his career released more than 100 albums and has sold over seven million copies of those during a career spanning nearly 70 years. He also went onto win multiple Gold and Platinum record awards and 38 Golden Guitars (which is the highest awards given to country musicians). David (Slim Dustry) Kirkpatrick was born in the town of Kempsey, New South Wales, located about 400 kilometres north of the Sydney CBD and 400 kilometres south of the Brisbane CBD and was raised on his family farm in nearby Nulla Nulla Creek.

It's a long way from Nulla Creek, New South Wales to be walking out with your guitar singing Waltzing Matilda at the Sydney Olympic closing ceremony.

Google Doodle celebrates the life and career of Australian country music star and producer Slim Dusty on Monday, October 24.

He received several Gold and Platinum record awards for his contributions and was voted A National Treasure by the Australian public. Slim Dusty made his first recording when he was 15 years old and soon started sending the record to various radio stations. By 1949, he started working full-time as a musician, performing at different rodeos, concerts and local events.

The prolific artist who recorded more than 100 albums, and whose trophy cabinet is equally impressive, is immortalized with a Google Doodle.

In pioneering terms, first he made country a musical form that was viable in Australia – it was Australian country music; and, second, he laid some of the foundations of building and sustaining a career for all who followed, by heading out and playing to people all over the country.” Dusty’s life and his annual Australia-wide tours were the backbone of the 1984 biopic The Slim Dusty Movie. He clocked up more miles than some airlines, touring his own Slim Dusty Show in which he and his wife [Joy McKean](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/joy-mckean-ted-albert-award-2021-apras-9556796/) were supported by guest artists including Chad Morgan, Johnny Ashcroft and Gordon Parsons. At the time, it was considered the best-selling song recorded by an Australian, and Slim was awarded the first gold record presented in Australia. Dusty’s 1957 recording “A Pub with No Beer”, written by his friend, Gordon Parsons, was a top 10 hit in the U.K., peaking at No. By the age of 15, Dusty had made his first self-funded recording.

It's country music legend Slim Dusty, who happens to be the NSW Macleay Valley's most famous singer-songwriter. Advertisement. Ad. Click ...

As a boy, he dreamed of being a country singer. At the age of 10, he wrote his very first song, "The Way the Cowboy Dies", and at 11, he decided his future name was to be "Slim Dusty". His music lives on."

In 1957, Durty released his recording of 'A Pub with No Beer', written by his friend Gordon Parsons. It became the best-selling song recorded by an Australian.

It became the best-selling song recorded by an Australian, and he was awarded the first Gold Record presented in Australia. Dusty started making recordings when he was 15, paying out of his own pocket to do so, amd would repeatedly send his tracks to radio stations and record labels in the hope of being noticed. McKean was also instrumental in organising cross-country tours of Australia, in what eventually became his famous Round Australia tours.