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| ARCHIVE : Capital News October 2002 Vol.27 No.10 |
1992 – 10 Years Ago in October
NEWS: included reports on Brisbane's 4BC changing format to become 24 hour country music... Graeme Connors experimenting with recording in America... Shorty Ranger's 50th anniversary of songwriting and recording... Daniel O'Donnell's first visit to Country Music Capital... Tom T Hall announcing he would stop touring... and the death of long-time recording and performing partner of Tex Morton, Sister Dorrie.
INDUSTRY INSIGHT: focused on Nick Erby and the 15th anniversary of his Country Music Jamboree radio program then syndicated to almost 40 radio stations nationwide from Port Hedland, Western Australia, to Norfolk Island.
FESTIVAL NEWS: included reports on the upcoming Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 1993... the 1992 Gympie Country Music Muster which attracted an audience of around 50,000... Canberra's National Capital Country Music Awards... the Coolamon (NSW) Hootenany... festivals at Toowoomba and the Gold Coast in Queensland and Narrandera Twilight Festival (the town then claiming to be the home of the world's largest playable guitar).
COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE: told the stories of newcomer Noelene Legge (from Bairnsdale in Victoria), Sydney based singer/songwriter and recording artist Stephen Cheney, and Wendy Rendell from Queensland.
HERE & THERE: reported on a fund-raising push by a number of country music enthusiasts from Broken Hill (pushing a wheelbarrow from their home town in December to the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January) for the Royal Flying Doctor Service... Victoria's newest country music venue (The Outback Club) opening next month... the launch of Mulga Music's Australian Independent Music Catalogue... and a number of new releases from ABC Country, including Colin Buchanan, John and Genni Kane, and Brent Parlane.
CHARTS: Garth Brooks' Ropin' The Wind remained at number one while Billy Ray Cyrus rocketed to number two with his album Some Gave All. James Blundell slipped back to number three with This Road while Lee Kernaghan's Outback Club rose to number four. New entries this month included Lindsay Butler's Guitar Man (at 26), Brian Letton's My Heart's Still In The Bush (27) and Tracy Coster's The Girl In The Band (29).
THE LAST WORD: told of the postponement of John Williamson's tour of Ireland and the UK until next year... the upcoming marriage of country star Frank Ifield to Carole Wood... Gina Jeffreys' world-wide signing to publishers Warner/Chappell Music...and new babies for Colin and Robyn Buchanan, Cathy Wearne and Andrew Travers (of The Happening Thang) and Ian and Karen Blundell.
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