APRA Top 30 Australian songs explained
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary.[1] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years". The top ten songs, in numerical order, were announced on 28 May 2001 at the APRA Awards.[1] The next twenty were not ordered and had been released nearly four weeks earlier, on 2 May, in a media statement by APRA representative Debbie Kruger.[2]
At the 2001 APRA Awards ceremony You Am I performed the No.1 listed song "Friday on My Mind" with Harry Vanda of The Easybeats guesting on guitar. Ross Wilson of Daddy Cool performed the No.2 listed song "Eagle Rock", while Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" at No.3 was shown on video introduced by Senator Aden Ridgeway as an Indigenous spokesperson on reconciliation.[1]
Top Ten songs
The remaining 20 songs
Listed in chronological order:
Year | Titles | Performers | Writers | Music publishers | Peak chart position |
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AUS | NZ |
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1922 | "Along the Road to Gundagai" | Jack O'Hagan & various | Jack O'Hagan | Allans Music Aus. | - | - |
1969 | "The Real Thing" | Russell Morris | Johnny Young | Chappell & Co Aus. | 1 | - |
1971 | "I'll Be Gone" | Spectrum | Michael Rudd | Cellar Music Co | 1 | - |
1972 | "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" | The Bushwackers (1976) Eric Bogle (1980) | Eric Bogle | Larrikin Music Publ. | - | - |
1976 | "I'm Stranded" | The Saints | Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper | Mushroom Music | - | - |
1979 | "Cool Change" | Little River Band | Glenn Shorrock | Warner Chappell Music | - | 25 |
1982 | "Science Fiction" | Divinyls | Christina Amphlett, Mark McEntee | EMI Music Publ. Aus. | 13 | - |
1982 | "Power and the Passion" | Midnight Oil | Robert Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett | Sony Music Publ. Aus. | 8 | 4 |
1983 | "Reckless" | Australian Crawl | James Reyne | Warner Chappell Music | 1 | 8 |
1983 | "Cattle and Cane" | The Go-Betweens | Grant McLennan, Robert Forster | Festival Music, Complete Music Ltd (PRS) | - | - |
1983 | "I Was Only Nineteen" | Redgum | John Schumann | Universal/MCA Music Publ. | 1 | 41 |
1984 | "Throw Your Arms Around Me" | Hunters & Collectors | John Archer, Geoffrey Crosby, Douglas Falconer, Robert Miles, Mark Seymour, Michael Waters, John Howard | Mushroom Music | 49 | 28 |
1986 | "Wide Open Road" | The Triffids | David McComb | Mushroom Music | 64 | - |
1987 | "To Her Door" | Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls | Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls | Mushroom Music | 14 | - |
1988 | "My Island Home" | Warumpi Band (1988), Christine Anu (1995), Neil Murray | Neil Murray | Rondor Music Aus. | - | - |
1990 | "The Ship Song" | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Nick Cave | Mute Song (PRS), Mushroom Music | - | - |
1991 | "Treaty" | Yothu Yindi | Paul Kelly, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Stuart Kellaway, Cal Williams, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Milkayngu Mununggurr, Witiyana Marika | Mushroom Music | 11 | - |
1997 | "Even When I'm Sleeping" | Leonardo's Bride | Dean Manning | Mushroom Music | 4 | 34 |
1997 | "Truly Madly Deeply" | Savage Garden | Darren Hayes, Daniel Jones | EMI Music Publ. Aus. / Rough Cut Music | 1 | 12 |
1998 | "The Day You Come" | Powderfinger | Jonathan Coghill, John Collins, Ian Haug, Darren Middleton, Bernard Fanning | Universal Music Publ. | 25 | - | |
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The final list: APRA'S Ten best Australian Songs . Culnane . Paul . . 2001-05-28 . 2008-05-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100611003021/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History/2001Top10Songs.aspx . 2010-06-11 .
- Web site: The songs that resonate through the years . Kruger . Debbie . . 2001-05-02 . 2007-11-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140401091541/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/apraawards/musicawards/history/2001Top30Songs.aspx . 2014-04-01 .
- Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
- Web site: Australian Charts portal . australian-charts.com . 22 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080527184204/http://australian-charts.com/ . 27 May 2008 . dead .
- Web site: New Zealand charts portal. 22 May 2008 . charts.nz .
- Book: Jenkins, Jeff . Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia . Ian Meldrum . 2007 . The Easybeats . Wilkinson Publishing . Melbourne, Vic. . 21 . 978-1-921332-11-1 . 2008-10-27 .