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CLASSIC CAFE | Weekdays from 1pm

The swinging 60's, the sizzling 70's and the electrfying 80's. We've got the music, and we've got the stories. The Classic Cafe is where music comes alive from the three big decades. It's the A-Z of great music from Abba to ZZ Top.

Classic Cafe Weekdays 1-2pm

Bob Hudson - The Newcastle song

Thursday, 08 March 2012 08:55

Bob Hudson performing on the Paul Hogan Show, the hit single

The Newcastle Song

The Newcastle Song was a 1975 hit for musician and comedian Bob Hudson. It poked fun at the working-class youth culture of the City of Newcastle in NSW. The song was recorded in front of a live audience in 1974.

The basic story-line concerns a young man called Normie who goes out with his mates looking to pick up women in Newcastle's main street, Hunter Street, in their "hot - F.J. Holden".

They encounter a young lady and her Hells Angel date outside the "Parthenon Milk Bar". Apparently, the Parthenon Milk Bar survived in Hunter Street into the 1990s as a local business. Bob Hudson later went on to work at the ABC's 2JJ radio station in Sydney as a DJ, after it started broadcasting in 1975.

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Shake A Tail Feather - Blues Brothers

"Shake a Tail Feather" (Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice, and Andre Williams) is a song originally recorded in 1963 by the Chicago-based group The Five Du-Tones. "Shake a Tail Feather" has been covered by many other artists over the years, perhaps most notably by Ray Charles, who performed the song during his scenes in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. This version of the song includes calls for various 1960s dances, including the Twist, the Monkey, The Frug and The Mashed Potato, to be performed by a crowd gathered outside Ray's Music Exchange. {youtube}/qdbrIrFxas0{/youtube} Read more

Can’t Help Myself – Flowers

"Can't Help Myself" is the first single released by the Australian synthpop/rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse2] It was released in May 1980 as a 7" vinyl single on independent label, Regular Records, five months ahead of debut album Icehouse. A 10" vinyl single was released in July and had a cover depicting individual images of band members diagonally across the band's name and the single's title . It peaked at #10 on the Australian Singles Charts The music video was filmed in 1980 in a car park in Chatswood, Sydney. {youtube}/zDF6as0nlmU{/youtube} Read more

The Human League- Keep Feeling Fascination

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. The band had an early hit with "Being Boiled", but achieved stardom after a key change in line-up in 1980, releasing multiple international hits from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Dare (1981), the band's most popular album, yielded the single "Don't You Want Me", a No. 1 hit in the pop charts of UK, US and many other countries. Other international hits include: "Love Action", "Open Your Heart", "Mirror Man", "Fascination", "The Lebanon", "Human" (a US No. 1) and "Tell Me When". {youtube}/QqqBs6kkzHE{/youtube} Read more

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