Farewell Aunty Jack 7in picture disc 1973 Graham Bond TV comedy

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Farewell Aunty Jack 7in picture disc 1973 Graham Bond TV comedy

Original Australian picture pressing on Picture Records

Australian comedy changed forever the night that Aunty Jack roared into Australian living rooms on her Harley-Davidson. The Logie-winning series ran from 1972 to 1973 on ABC-TV and attained an instant cult status that persists to this day.

Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation, an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced tranvestite, part truckie, part pantomime-dame, who habitually solved any problem by knocking someone out or ripping their arms off. Visually, she was unmistakeable: she wore a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football boots, and a golden boxing glove on one hand. She rode everywhere on a Harley-Davidson and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" -- unless of course she was uttering her familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms orf!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular. The character was devised and played by the multi-talented Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by an overbearing uncle of Grahame's whom he had disliked as a child.

"Farewell Aunty Jack" was the closing theme to The Aunty Jack Show, played at the end of each episode. It was re-recorded and released as a hit single in late 1973 and spent 3 weeks at number one in the charts in Australia in March 1974. The music was written by Rory O'Donoghue, who also did the singing as the character "Thin Arthur", whereas "Aunty Jack" (Grahame Bond) provided wise-cracks and other spoken commentary to the lyrics, addressed to the listener and the singer.

The single had Aunty Jack demanding that listeners listen to this song real close, because I tell you what, if you don't I'm gonna jump through your speakers and rip yer bloody arms off, whereas on the TV show, Aunty Jack threatened to jump through the television screen and rip yer bloody arms off, if viewers didn't watch the show the following week.

The vinyl single was released on Polydor Records and some picture-vinyl copies of the single were also pressed – the first Australian picture disc. This version has a listed play time of 3:24. The 'B' side recording was "Doin' the Aunty Jack", with a listed play time of 2:10.

"Farewell Aunty Jack"  //  "Doin' the Aunty Jack"

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