Australia’s
musical history is a rich one, with many of our best finding huge success on
the international stage. The 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s featured some of the
country’s best rock bands pumping out classic songs that are still favourites
to this day. With Australia Day on our doorstep, what better time is there than
now to count down my Top Ten classic Australian songs:
"Help Is On
It's Way" – Little River Band
Writer(s):
Glenn Shorrock
Album:
Diamantina Cocktail
Released:
1977
Peak
Chart Position: #1
What happened with the licensing for so many
great songs, and, indeed, the band’s name, overshadows the great catalogue of
songs that the Little River Band, with their classic line-up of Glen Shorrock,
Graeham Goble and Beeb Birtles, amongst others, put together, and ‘Help Is On
It’s Way’ is right at the top, as one of my favourite LRB songs.
Diamantina Cocktail – a drink invented in the
Diamantina River region of Queensland, featured condensed milk, Bundaberg Rum
and, unbelievably, an emu’s egg – was the highest-charted of LRB’s firs three
albums, propelled to those heights thanks to ‘Help Is On It’s Way’, written by
the band’s then-lead singer, Shorrock. It was the fourth-highest selling single
attributed to an Australian group in 1977.
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