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50 FAVE FOOTY Ditties is the sixth CD of AFL footy songs released by Greg Champion & The Coodabeen Champions since 1995.
That was the year That's The Thing About Football, Champs' most famous football song, became the anthem for footy lovers everywhere due to its use by Channel 7 on all TV game coverage.
ABC Radio's The Coodabeen Champions, of which Greg Champion is the resident musician, has been heard on radio continuously for 30 years.
This latest CD takes a new tack. It offers 46 live-to-air funny footy songs: no studio re-recording, just live performance straight from the airwaves.
50 Fave Footy Ditties provides the immediacy of the humour generated by the institutional Coodabeens on their now legendary show. Four studio tracks round out the album, including the original anthemic That's The Thing About Football, which Greg has performed live at two Grand Finals. The other three studio tracks are rare or new works.
Greg Champion is Australia's foremost, perhaps only, musician to have enjoyed a wonderful career writing and performing well-loved songs about Aussie Rules and cricket.
Fifty Fave Footy Ditties is the latest in Champs'x canon of sports music albums, for every sports nut who loves a laugh.
Album Credits
All songs except tracks 47-50, sung live to air by Greg Champion on the Coodabeen Champions radio programme between 2007 and 2010.
The Coodabeen Champions are Jeff Richardson, Ian Cover, Greg Champion, Billy Baxter, Torch McGee and Julian Ross.
The Coodabeen Champions radio show has been on air continuously on Victorian and national radio for thirty years, beginning in 1981.
All songs traditional/ public domain [Arranged: Champion - Albert Music], except tracks 1,10, 34, 47, 48, 50: written by Greg Champion [Albert Music].
Track 49 written by Greg Champion-Mike Brady-Paul Kelly.
Each week listeners to the show send in dozens of song ideas.
These get re-written and edited by Champs, as on this CD.
Some of the most regular contributors are Jane Harris, John Ogge, Noel Dennison, Patti from Reservoir, Peter Sim, Doug Long, Peter Treseder, Richard Evans and David Blom, while others on this album include Pamela Sherpa, Alastair Baird, Peter Otzen, Robert McMahon, Rohan Barry, Jack Mackie, Michael Harper, David Coorey, Michael Smith, Neville Grills, Kieran Harris, Terry Chapman, Tom Blakey and Steven Mitchell.
Further thanks: The Coodabeens producer [Young] Andy Bellairs, our former long time producer [Rotten] Ronnie Engelhardt, former long time Coodabeens Simon Whelan and Tony Leonard; Darren James, Mark Skurnik.
Musicians on tracks 47-50 include Chris [Darkie] Wilson, Sam See, Mike Brady, Mick Pealing, Steve Wade, Lindsay Field, and many more…
Mastered by Martin Pullan at Edensound, South Melbourne, 2010.
For further information and enquiries contact us.
All recordings by Greg Champion © Copyright 2009
Distributed by Shock Records / Compass Brothers |
1. Why are there three Nathan Browns?
2. Where have all the Roberts gone?
3. Fevola
4. Gary please don't go
5. Sick look the shares, boys
6. Sheedy thought of them all
7. Ablett Chappie Harley too
8. On the waiting list
9. Essendon club song revised
10. Get Tommy back to Richmond
11.
Fremantle club song revised
12.
Matty Lloyd's shorts
13.
Man of constant suntan
14.
Incident in the Bullring
15.
Wilpena's looking good
16.
Umpire number 32
17.
Wild Colac boy
18.
Hands in the back
19.
Melbourne club song revised
20.
Yeah Nah Yeah
21.
Barry Hall he did his lolly
22.
Wooden spoon
23.
Antony Grover
24.
Richmond club song revised
25.
Setanta
26.
That's what's killing talkback radio
27.
Give Collingwood the flag
28.
Lance Franklin
29.
Full support of the board
30.
Brisbane club song revised
31.
Oh Shannon Grant
32.
Where ya goin' mojo?
33.
We're going to the snow
34.
Dermott Brereton is a hood
35.
Issie Folau's coming to town
36.
Bulldogs club song revised
37.
Fair shake of the carpet snake
38.
Joel Bowden
39.
Game of Many Moments
40. Back to Demonland
41. Geelong club song revised
42.
The Greatest Player to Ever Toss a Dart
43.
Not a happy team at Hawthorn
44.
Dean Bailey
45.
Umpires' song
46.
Bound for the bottom four
47.
Go go ewes Kiwis
48.
The Melbourne Cup
49.
That's the Thing about Football
50.
Football is a funny game
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