Farewell Aunty Jack
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"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 threatening listeners to listen to this song closely, otherwise 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 Aunty Jack Show
The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day....
, 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 threatening listeners to listen to this song closely, otherwise 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
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
and some picture-vinyl copies of the single were also pressed.