(SLIM DUSTY With Joy McKean & Anne Kirkpatrick-Glory Bound Train )-F9-LP

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ITEM: VINYL 12” LP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: SLIM DUSTY
With Joy McKean & Anne Kirkpatrick
TITLE: Glory Bound Train
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: COLUMBIA, SCX0-7993
COVER: (Grade at EXCELLENT+ to NEAR MINT-)
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT)
VINYL: (Grade at EXCELLENT+ to NEAR MINT-)
TRACKS: See scans
COMMENT: Wikipedia
Slim was born David Gordon Kirkpatrick on June 13, 1927 in Kempsey, New South Wales, the son of a cattle farmer. He adopted the stage name "Slim Dusty" in 1938 at eleven years of age. His earliest musical influences included Jimmie Rodgers. Slim released his first record in 1945 at the age of eighteen. In 1946 he signed his first recording contract with Columbia Graphophone for the Regal Zonophone label.

In 1951, Slim Dusty married Singer-Songwriter Joy McKean and with her help, achieved great success around Australia. In 1954, the two launched a full time business career, including the Slim Dusty Travelling Show. His 1957 hit "A Pub With No Beer" was the biggest-selling record by an Australian to that time, the first Australian single to go gold, and the first and only 78 rpm record to be awarded a gold disc.

Over the course of his career, he collected more gold and platinum albums than any other Australian artist. (The "Pub with No Beer" is a real place, in Taylors Arm, not far from Kempsey where Slim Dusty was born)[citation needed]. In 1959 and 1960 Dutch and German cover versions of the song became number one hits (even evergreens) in Belgium, Austria and Germany, brought by the Flemish country singer-guitarist and amusement park founder Bobbejaan Schoepen. 1964 saw the establishment of the annual Slim Dusty round Australia tour, a 30,000 mile 10 month journey.

Dusty not only recorded songs written by himself and other fellow Australian performers, but also recorded classic Australian poems by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson with new tunes, to call attention to the old 'Bush Ballads.' An example is The Man from Snowy River by Paterson.

In 1970, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to music. In 1971 he won Best Single at the Australian Country Music Awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival (Slim's wife Joy McKean won Song of the Year as writer of the song for which he won best single). In all, he won a record 35 "Golden Guitars" over the years.

The General Manager of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee invited him and his wife to perform in 1997, recognising 50 years contributing to Country Music.

He was given the honour to sing Waltzing Matilda in the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, with the whole stadium singing along with him.

When he died in 2003, he had been working on his 106th album, for EMI Records. The album Columbia Lane - the Last Sessions debuted at number five in the Australian album charts and number one on the country charts on March 8, 2004. It went gold after being on sale for less than two weeks.

Columbia Lane is a tribute to the laneway juxtaposed to Parramatta Road in Strathfield (near the railway bridge link), where the EMI studios once stood (now Kennards Hire) and it's where he traversed to crack the national country music market from Kempsey.

He died at home in St Ives, New South Wales on 19 September 2003 after a protracted battle with cancer, at age 76.

* Slim Dusty was the first artist broadcast from space when astronauts Bob Crippen and John Young played his rendition of Waltzing Matilda from the space shuttle "Columbia" as it passed over Australia in 1983.

* Slim Dusty was a guest on the Wiggles' children DVD "Wiggly Wiggly World".

* His daughter Anne Kirkpatrick is also an award-winning country singer.

  VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

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COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
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RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
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COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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