“True Blue” by John Williamson

"True Blue" is John Williamson's own country-folk song, steeped in Australian slang, with a title that means authentically Australian. It first went out as a single in March 1982, drawn from the compilation True Blue – The Best of John Williamson, and missed the Kent Music Report's top 100 altogether.

Williamson didn't let it go. He recorded it again in 1986 and reissued it that September, and the new version became the sound of the Australian Made advertising campaign run by entrepreneur John Singleton, climbing to number 43 this time around. It later turned up on the 1994 4 Track Special Sampler EP.

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