'COMPLETE' COLLECTION MARKS 25 YEARS for JIM HAYNES
The man who went FERAL WITH CHERYL, LOBSTER AND NEVER FLOUNDER and told us YOU DON'T CALL WAGGA WAGGA WAGGA has spent TWENTY-FIVE years of putting FUN into Aussie Country Music.
Going to Tamworth in 1986 with bush band Bandy Bill & Co, to see if anyone liked their brand of Aussie music, seemed like a good idea to JIM HAYNES.
'I've always got lots of good ideas,' says Jim.
With the 40th Tamworth Festival looming, Jim celebrates 25 years of Festivals with a double album, featuring his most successful novelty songs, his most requested verse recitations - and an entire CD of his famous Big Bush Brekky comedy routines.
'Tamworth has been an annual stepping stone in my career for twenty-five years,' says the Man from Weelabarabak - that small town Jim says is situated on the NSW/West Australian border!
According to Jim, 'Weelabarabak' is an Aboriginal word meaning 'bloody hard place to find' and the town is the best Aussie town in Australia .... or anywhere else!
'All my aunties live there and the Weelabarabak CWA is famous,' Jim says, 'even Dipso Dan, our town drunk, has poems about him recited at all the best Bush Poetry festivals.'
The 'new' double album features 15 of Jim's novelty song hits such as Since Cheryl Went Feral, Don't Call Wagga Wagga Wagga, I Lobster and Never Flounder. There's even a duet with Beccy Cole.
'I wrote a love song for Beccy when we were touring together,' Jim says cheekily, 'called I Wish I'd Met You Sooner, I'd have Forgotten You By Now, and we recorded it together.'
The Weelabarabak and Dipso Dan poems are included as are the much-requested 'frack to bunt' Rindercella, Pop's Boots, which Jim originally wrote for Paddy Ryan, and the nostalgic Charles Souter poem Buckalong.
After recording with Bandy Bill & Co in the 1980s, Jim signed as a solo artist to Festival Records, on the Kookaburra Label, in 1989, and later recorded for EMI, ABC Music, Compass Bros and his own label, Singabout Australia.
This collection features material from many past albums, along with the comedy routines that have featured on Jim's Big Bush Brekky Shows, like the Top Ten Countdowns and Joke of The Day.
It's over twenty years now since Jim started the very first morning shows at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
'Things used to kick off around lunchtime after the pubs opened,' Jim remembers. 'People thought we were mad trying to do shows before you could sell grog, but look at it NOW!'
Jim quit teaching in 1988 to work in radio and spent over twenty years touring his own shows and being part of the Slim Dusty Show and many other tours and festivals. He is resident Australiana expert on Sydney's top weekend radio show, George & Paul on 2UE.
Jim has also written eighteen best selling books and been involved in the CMAA Academy of Country Music for fifteen years 'in his spare time'.
'It's great to have all the best of the old material available again,' says Jim, 'lots of people ask for stuff and now they can get it all - and I can get on and record some new songs ... I've got lots of good ideas!'
The double CD "THE COMPLETE JIM HAYNES COLLECTION" is a collection of material recorded over the past 20 years. The two CDs contain 15 songs 7 poems and 30 comedy routines - but lots of people ask for certain tracks ...so here's the track listing.
| DISC ONE SONGS | DISC TWO COMEDY | ||
| Don't Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Dot the Barmaid | ||
| The Fish Song (Lobster & Never Flounder) | Top 10 Insurance Claims | ||
| Cricket Out The Back | CWS | ||
| I'll Have Chips | The Little Duck (joke) | ||
| Where There's A Will | Jim and Grant Chat - Holiday Retirement | ||
| Since Cheryl Went Feral | Top 10 Things Kids Know by 8 Drunks | ||
| The Feral Accountant | Jim and Grant Chat - Touring Sunday School | ||
| Wagga Wagga | Ponsonby meets a Tiger (joke) | ||
| Wedding In July | Top 10 Dumb Instructions | ||
| Madame Stella | Divorce | ||
| Fortune Teller | Curiosity | ||
| I Wish I'd Met You Sooner (With Beccy Cole) |
Jim and Grant Chat - School | ||
| Raven 'bout Robin | Russell in Hospital (joke) | ||
| The Eleven Hours Of Christmas | Stage Announcement | ||
| The Video Song (with Mary & Rita Schneider) | Top 10 Headlines | ||
| Wagga Wagga Honeymoon | Chimp (joke) | ||
| Weelabarabak For Me | VW and the Porsche (joke) | ||
| DISC ONE POEMS | Aging | ||
| Rindercella | Top 10 Signs Seen Overseas | ||
| Lunch For Dipso Dan | Lady at Doctor (joke) | ||
| Dipso And The Twins | Jim and Grant Chat - Ex Wife | ||
| Pop’s New Boots | Chokos | ||
| The Weelabarabak Bugle | Top 10 Housing Complaints | ||
| Weelabarabak Buckalong | Valentine's Day (joke) | ||
| Russell at Bondi | |||
| Jim and Grant Chat - Christmas | |||
| Top 10 Local Paper Headings | |||
| Aging No 2 |
