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NewQUAMBATOOK - CD - Original Cast Recording

21 tracks featuring the entire cast of Quambatook
Special offer: Each Quambatook CD purchased from this site will include a free copy of the Souvenir Program!

John's summation is "... it's absolutely brilliant mate." He is particularly excited about the whole cast's interpretations of his songs. Here are some examples...

2008

Anthems
CD & DVD Deluxe edition **New**

A Celebration of Australia:-

CD: True Blue, Home Among The Gum Trees, Rip Rip Woodchip, This Ancient Land, Corroboree 2000, Galleries of Pink Galahs, Diggers of the Anzac, Sydney 2000, Advance Australia Fair, River Crying Out, This Is Australia Calling, The Land Of The Truly Free, My Oath To Australia, Diamantina Drover, Raining On The Rock, A Flag Of Our own, Sir Don, The Baggy Green, A Number On My Back, Waltzing Matilda 2000, Shelter

The DVD contains the songs (including special guest appearances by Jimmy Little, Warren H. Williams, Ami Williamson, Steve Waugh and Gavin Robertson) plus Special Documentary Footage 'North In Search Of Songs' (12 mins)

(2008 Box Set SPECIAL of 2000 CD and 2000 DVD)

Chandelier of Stars
CD & DVD Deluxe edition **New**

Little Girl From The Dryland, Chandelier Of Stars, Bells In A Bushman's Ear, Cowboys And Indians, Skinny Dingoes, The Camel Boy, Keeper Of The Stones, Desert Child (with Warren H. Williams), Renner Springs, A Country Balladeer (with Chad Morgan), Firestorm, Flower On The Water - Preview songs...

The DVD was inspired by the 'Chandelier of Stars' CD in which John Williamson explores his love of Outback Australia.

Also included is the very moving ceremony conducted prior to Australia Day 2005 entitled 'Uluru Dawn' in which John and Warren H. Williams sing 'Raining on the Rock' and then John joins Trevor Adamson to sing 'Waltzing Matilda', each in their own language.

(2007 Box Set SPECIAL of 2005 CD and 2006 DVD)

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2 CD Originals - Limited Edition Box Set

J.W.'s FAMILY ALBUM No. 1

A Proud Man, Big Bad Banksia Man, Camel Train to Yamba, Christmas Photo, Crocodile Roll, Goodbye Blinky Bill, Home Among The Gum Trees, Just A Dog, Koala Koala, My Dad Snores, Old Man Emu, Old Sow, On My Ukelele, Teach Me To Drive Dad, The Flight Of The Blowfly, When We Were Kids.

J.W.'S FAMILY ALBUM NO. 2

Another great album for all the family ...

Bananas, Big Bad Bushranger, Country Football, Kitchy Kitchy Koo, Little Brick, Little Piss Piddle, My Heart Will Find You, My Oath to Australia, On Our Selection, Santa Bring Me a Dinosaur, Special Girl, The Golden Kangaroo, The Timbercutter, Walkin' On the Beach, You Come Back to Tassie.

(2007 Box Set SPECIAL of 1990 and 1996 CDs)


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WILDLIFE WARRIORS: IT'S TIME **New**

$1 from the sale of this CD is donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide.

John Williamson's most important environmental songs, many of which were an inspiration to Steve Irwin. It's expected the CD will raise tens of thousands of dollars to support Wildlife Warriors...

Wildlife Warriors: It's Time (2006), Rip Rip Woodchip (1989), Dingo (1989), Humpin' My Bluey (1986), It's A Way Of Life (1988), Send Down The Rain (1982), Goodbye Blinky Bill (1986), Koala Koala (1990), A Thousand Feet With Warren H. Williams (1999), Ancient Mountains (1989), River Crying Out (1994), Rosewood Hill (1998), Home Among The Gum Trees (2006) (Live - Steve Irwin Memorial Tribute), True Blue (2006) (Live - Steve Irwin Memorial Tribute), The Trees Have Now Gone (1984)

(2006)

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The Platinum Collection (3 CD set)

DISC 1 1. Old Man Emu 2. The Breaker with Narration by Charles 'Bud' Tingwell 3. True Blue 4. Hawkesbury River Lovin' 5. Diggers Of The Anzac (This Is Gallipoli) 6. Wrinkles 7. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (LIVE) 8. Good Tobacci When I Smoke 9. Queen In The Sport Of Kings 10. I'll Be Gone 11. The Shed 12. You And My Guitar 13. Goodbye Blinky Bill with Bullamakanka, Ami Williamson & Georgie Williamson 14. Just A Dog 15. Billabong (LIVE) 16. I Can't Feel Those Chains Any Longer (LIVE) 17. The Vasectomy Song (LIVE) 18. Home Among The Gum Trees (LIVE) 19. Mallee Boy 20. Galleries Of Pink Galahs
DISC 2 1. Raining On The Rock 2. Cracker Night 3. Cootamundra Wattle 4. The Budgie Song 5. Diamantina Drover 6. Sail The Nullarbor 7. Boomerang Café 8. Boogie With M'Baby (LIVE) 9. Bill The Cat 10. Rip Rip Woodchip 11. Shelter 12. Big Bad Bushranger 13. Waratah Street 14. A Bushman Can't Survive 15. A Flag Of Our Own 16. Papa Whisky November 17. This Is Australia Calling 18. Tropical Fever 19. Vegie Bill 20. Prettiest Girl In The Kimberley 21. Sir Don
DISC 3 1. Campfire On The Road 2. A Thousand Feet with Warren H Williams 3. Three Sons 4. Purple Roses 5. This Ancient Land: Corroboree 2000 with Jimmy Little 6. The Land Of The Truly Free 7. The Baggy Green with Steve Waugh, Gavin Robertson amp; Boys Of The Bankstown District Cricket Association With Commentary by Alan McGilvray 8. A Number On My Back (The Wallaby Anthem) 9. Waltzing Matilda 2000 (LIVE) 10. Sing You The Outback 11. Cape York Peninsula 12. Salisbury Street 13. Buried In Her Bedclothes 14. Raining On The Plains with Sara Storer 15. Old Farts In Caravan Parks (LIVE) 16. Glory To Australia (LIVE) with Pixie Jenkins amp; Warren H Williams 17. Mates On The Road (LIVE) with Pixie Jenkins amp; Warren H Williams 18. Chandelier Of Stars 19. Desert Child with Warren H Williams 20. Flower On The Water 21. We Love This Country

Covering more than 60 songs over 3 CD's The Platinum Collection covers John's song writing & recording career in chronological order and is a true retrospective, to date, of what has been an astonishing career that continues to go from strength to strength.

(2006)

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Chandelier Of Stars

Little Girl From The Dryland, Chandelier Of Stars, Bells In A Bushman's Ear, Cowboys And Indians, Skinny Dingoes, The Camel Boy, Keeper Of The Stones, Desert Child, Renner Springs, A Country Balladeer, Firestorm, Flower On The Water

12 all-new tracks and John's first studio album in 3 years.

Preview songs...
(2005)

also available on DVD

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We Love This Country

We Love This Country (The Caravan and Campers' Song), Campfire on the Road, On The Improve, Wobbly Boot Hotel, Cape York Peninsula, Vegie Bill, Welcome All To Broome, Singing in the Rain, Alice Springs, You Come Back to Tassie, Bush Telegraph, Pickin' on Murray, Around Jindabyne, Beachcomber from Wollongong, Old Farts In Caravan Parks

A compilation of 15 Travelling songs...

(2005)

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Mates on the Road ( 2 CD set )

Recorded LIVE with Pixie Jenkins and Warren H. Williams

Disc One: Mallee Boy, Dear Little Quambatook, Chook Routine, It Goes Without Saying, Cracker Night, Forty Years Ago, Salisbury Street , Hawkesbury River Lovin', The Flight Of The Blowfly (featuring Pixie Jenkins) , Boomerang Cafe, Buried In Her Bedclothes, You And My Guitar, Galleries Of Pink Galahs, Cootamundra Wattle, Old Man Emu

Disc Two: Teach Me To Drive, Dad (featuring Pixie Jenkins), Cape York Peninsula, Crocodile Roll, Wrinkles, Diamantina Drover, Amazing Day, Three Sons, Keeper Of The Stone, A Thousand Feet (with Warren H. Williams), What A Place (featuring Warren H. Williams), Raining On The Rock (with Pixie Jenkins and Warren H. Williams), Chain Around My Ankle, I Can't Feel Those Chains Any Longer, Diggers Of The Anzac, Waltzing Matilda, A Number On My Back (with Pixie Jenkins and Warren H. Williams), True Blue, A Bushman Can't Survive, Glory To Australia (with Pixie Jenkins and Warren H. Williams), Mates On The Road (with Pixie Jenkins and Warren H. Williams)

(2004)

also available on DVD

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True Blue Two ( 2 CD set )

Disc One: True Blue - 21st Anniversary (With Orchestra & Chorus), You Are Very Welcome - World Cup Song (With Warren H. Williams), Keep Australia Beautiful, Sing You The Outback, A Thousand Feet (With Warren H. Williams), Campfire On The Road, Three Sons, Raining On The Plains (With Sara Storer), On The Improve, Amazing Day, Back At The Isa, Vegie Bill, Prettiest Girl In The Kimberley, At Lightning Ridge, Coolabah Blue, Camel Train To Yamba, Old Farts In Caravan Parks, Buried In Her Bedclothes, Wonthaggi, Tropical Fever, Mountain Hideaway

Disc Two: Raining On The Rock (With Warren H. Williams), Forty Years Ago, Dusty Road We Know, Truckie's Wife, Purple Roses, Woman On The Land, Salisbury Street, It's A Way Of Life, My Dad Snores, Kitchy Kitchy Koo, Big Brother, Little Brother, Big Bad Bushranger, A Mighty Big River, This Ancient Land (With Jimmy Little), You Come Back To Tassie, Sail The Nullarbor, The Baggy Green (With Steve Waugh), Sir Don, The Kiwi And The Emu, A Number On My Back (The Wallaby Anthem), Waltzing Matilda (Rugby Version)

(2003)

also available on video and DVD and Book

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Old Farts in Caravan Parks

(Formerly called 'Boogie With M'Baby')

The Vasectomy Song, Lillee & McEnroe, Shiek Of Scrubby Creek, Waratah Rock 'n' Roll Ball, I Wish Mate, I Wish; Full Moon Girl, Dog With No Hair, My Dad Snores, Teach me to Drive, Dad; The Bowls (Bush Poem), I Still Call The Commercial Home, Drunken Duncan, Big Bum On The Toilet Seat, Boogie With M'Baby, Bill The Cat, Crocodile Roll, Old Farts In Caravan Parks

(2003)

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GUNYAH

14 great songs:-

I'll Sing You the Outback, Frangipani Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Granny's Little Gunyah, Butter Outa Grass, A Mighty Big River, Around Jindabyne, The Devil's Boots, Salisbury Street, You Are My Foundation, Buried in Her Bedclothes, The Kiwi and the Emu, Telephone in My Pocket, Big Brother, Little Brother

(2002)

also available on video and DVD

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ANTHEMS

A Celebration of Australia:-

True Blue, Home Among The Gum Trees, Rip Rip Woodchip, This Ancient Land, Corroboree 2000, Galleries of Pink Galahs, Diggers of the Anzac, Sydney 2000, Advance Australia Fair, River Crying Out, This Is Australia Calling, The Land Of The Truly Free, My Oath To Australia, Diamantina Drover, Raining On The Rock, A Flag Of Our own, Sir Don, The Baggy Green, A Number On My Back, Waltzing Matilda 2000, Shelter

(2000)

also available on VIDEO (NTSC only - NOT available on PAL video)

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THE GLORY OF AUSTRALIA

(Formerly called 'The Spirit of Australia')

True Blue, Aussie Balladeer, Cootamundra Wattle, Short of a Quid, A Bushman Can't Survive, On The Improve, Woman on the Land, Wrinkles, Three Rivers Hotel, Galleries of Pink Galahs, Raining On The Rock, Shelter, My Oath To Australia, Sydney 2000, Waltzing Matilda.

(1999 compilation album) 
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THE WAY IT IS

16 new studio recordings featuring songs from the ocean to the inland:-

Campfire on the Road, A Thousand Feet (Duet with Aboriginal Warren Williams), Three Sons, Queensland Bungalow, Wonthaggi, Mountain Hideaway, Singing in the Rain, Would I Be The One, We're Still Here, Happy Birthday My Old Friend, Railwayman, Great Ocean Road, Purple Roses, Do I Love You, Thargomindah (the way it is) and the stirring Land of the Truly Free.

(1999)

also available on VIDEO (NTSC only - NOT available on PAL video)

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For AUSSIE KIDS

18 songs - A live concert in the bush:-

The Budgie Song, On My Ukelele, Old Sow, Cracker Night, Big Bad Bushranger, My Dad Snores, Crocodile Roll, Little Piss Piddle, Big Bad Banksia Man, Goodbye Blinky Bill, Rip Rip Woodchip, The Golden Kangaroo, Santa Bring Me A Dinosaur, Christmas Photo, Old Man Emu, Home Among The Gumtrees, Waltzing Matilda, True Blue.

(1998)
also available on VIDEO
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WANDERING AUSTRALIA

with John Williamson

Mallee Boy, Tubbo Station, At Lightning Ridge, Hawkesbury River Lovin', You Come Back to Tassie, Cooberpedy, Sail the Nullarbor, Welcome All To Broome, Amazing Day, Station Cook, Ancient Mountains, Alice Springs, Back at the Isa, Springbrook, Papa Whisky November.
(1998 compilation)
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LAUGH ALONG

with John Williamson

Old Man Emu, Crocodile Roll, Budgie Song, Bill the Cat, Little Piss Piddle, Cracker Night, Christmas Photo, The Shed, Murrumbidgee Madness, On Our Selection, Bush Telegraph, Dad's Flowers, Vasectomy Song, Bush Town, Old Farts in Caravan Parks.
(1998 compilation album)
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PIPE DREAM

Pipe Dream is an album of great optimism, a celebration of improving times and resilient people with its upbeat, hopeful songs like :-

Bush Telegraph, Coolabah Blue, Missin' The Kisses, Old Pancho, On The Improve, Pipe Dream, Power Over Me, Prettiest Girl In The Kimberley, Raining On The Rock, Rosewood Hill, Sir Don, The Blues Sometimes, The Girl I Met, Vegie Bill, Wedding Ring, Woman On The Land.

(1997/1998)


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J.W.'S FAMILY ALBUM NO. 2

Another great album for all the family ...

Bananas, Big Bad Bushranger, Country Football, Kitchy Kitchy Koo, Little Brick, Little Piss Piddle, My Heart Will Find You, My Oath to Australia, On Our Selection, Santa Bring Me a Dinosaur, Special Girl, The Golden Kangaroo, The Timbercutter, Walkin' On the Beach, You Come Back to Tassie.

(1996)


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CDs and book

TRUE BLUE

True Blue is a compilation double album of all the best of John's songs. In addition, there are two new 'classics' - 'Bush Town' (The Lawnmower Song) and 'No-One Loves Brisbane Like Jesus'.

Included with the CD pack is a 20 page booklet on John's career with many previously unpublished 'historic' photographs!

Disc One:- Billabong, Bush Town (The Lawnmower Song), Chain Around My Ankle, Dad's Flowers, Diggers Of The Anzac, Goodbye Blinky Bill, Hawkesbury River Lovin', Home Among The Gum Trees, I Can't Feel Those Chains Any Longer, I'm Fair Dinkum, Just A Dog, No One Loves Brisbane Like Jesus, Old Man Emu, Stuffed If I Know, The Breaker, The Bush Barber, The Shed, The Vasectomy Song, Waltzing Matilda, Wrinkles, You And My Guitar.

Disc Two:- A Bushman Can't Survive, A Flag Of Our Own, Beachcomber From Wollongong, Bill The Cat, Boogie With M'Baby, Boomerang Cafe, Budgie Song, Cootamundra Wattle, Cracker Night, Crocodile Roll, Drover's Boy, Galleries Of Pink Galahs, I'll Be Gone, I'm In The Mood, Mallee Boy, Papa Whisky November, Raining On The Rock, Rip Rip Woodchip, Shelter, This Is Australia Calling True Blue, Waratah Street.

(1995
- 25yr compilation double CD "All the Best" Vols 1 & 2)

also available on VIDEO (PAL & NTSC)
and Songbook

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MULGA TO MANGOES

From the foreword to the CD: 'A woman in my audience one night came up afterwards and said that I wasn't a 'Country and Western' singer at all but a Balladeer. I agreed ...'

All Steamy, At Lightning Ridge, Aussie Balladeer, Christmas Waltz, Fool to Love You, Last Night A Love Song, Little Piss Piddle, My Oath to Australia, Pickin' on Murray, River Crying Out, Seven Year Itch, Sydney 2000, The Buckled Bicycle, The Farming Game, Tony M' Mate, Tropical Fever.

(1994)
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WARATAH ST

A Bushman Can't Survive, A Flag of Our Own, Ami, Take Your Chances, Beachcomber From Wollongong, Georgie, Goondiwindi Pork, Millions of Women, Papa Whisky November, Songs For My Guitar, The Big Depression, Tubbo Station, Waratah Street, Will Our Grandchildren Sing, Winter Green, Wobbly Boot Hotel (Boggabilla Pub).
(1991)
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J.W.'s FAMILY ALBUM No. 1

A Proud Man, Big Bad Banksia Man, Camel Train to Yamba, Christmas Photo, Crocodile Roll, Goodbye Blinky Bill, Home Among The Gum Trees, Just A Dog, Koala Koala, My Dad Snores, Old Man Emu, Old Sow, On My Ukelele, Teach Me To Drive Dad, The Flight Of The Blowfly, When We Were Kids.
(1990)


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WARRAGUL

40 Years Ago, Amazing Day, Ancient Mountains, Big Bad Bushranger, Bill The Cat, Boogie With M'Baby, Charters Towers, Dingo, Drover's Boy, Longreach is Praying, Rip Rip Woodchip, Shelter, Special Girl, Station Cook, Why They Call Him Sundown.
(1989)


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BOOMERANG CAFÉ

Features 13 songs:-

It's A Way Of Life; Old Man Verandah; Sail the Nullarbor; Westown; Welcome All to Broome; Crocodile Roll; The March for Australia; The Boomerang Cafe, The Truckie's Wife; My Dad Snores; You're A Miner; The Only One; One More For The Road.

(1988)


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MALLEE BOY

Back At The Isa, Cootamundra Wattle, Cracker Night, Diamantina Drover, Galleries of Pink Galahs, Humpin' My Bluey, I'm In The Mood, Mallee Boy, Paint Me A Wheelbarrow, Raining On The Rock, Show Me A Better Way, The Budgie Song, Three Rivers Hotel, True Blue.
(1986)


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ROAD THRU THE HEART

Alice Springs, Coober Pedy, Go To Nashville, Goodbye Again, I Had A Dream, I've Always Been A Drover, Old Lou, See You Next Year Mate, Singing At A Party, Someday An Eagle, The Dusty Road We Know, The Least That I Can Do (Song for Ethiopia), The Shed, Times Have Now Gone, We'll Stop The War, You And My Guitar.
(1985)


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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

A Dog With No Hair (Pub With No Beer), Come Ride a Country Road, Comic Strip Cowboy, Dingo Dog, Engine Driver, Four Points and Forty Bucks, Freedom Frog, Goin' Round the Bend, Gotta Get Back, Gum Tree, Highway to the Grave, I Still Cry, It's a Grab It While It's Goin' Kinda Life, J.C. Bulginpockets, Leave the Lights On, Little Babies, Lonesome Playground, Melbourne Blue - Melbourne Green, Misery Farm, Old Man Emu, Road to Town, Six Boys in Blue, Tearjerkers, The Buddies Song (Have A Go), The Pitt Street Farmer, Vegetable Soup, Water Water Everywhere, W-W-Wallaby.
(1985)


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HOME AMONG THE GUM TREES

(This album was formerly called 'The Smell of Gum Leaves'):-

Billabong, Dad's Flowers, Drunken Duncan, Good Tobacci When I Smoke, Home Among The Gum Trees, I'll Be Gone, I'm Fair Dinkum, I've Always Been a Drover, Only 19, Queen in the Sport of Kings, Stoned This Afternoon, The Bush Barber, The Last of the Pioneers, The Trees Have Now Gone, We Will Stop the War.

(1984)


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WALTZING MATILDA

(Formerly called 'Singing In the Suburbs')- A LIVE album with plenty of atmosphere to accompany the great music!

Chain Around My Ankle, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Botany Bay, Bound for South Australia, Home among The Gum Trees, I Can't Feel Those Chains Any Longer, It's Good To Be Me, Lillee and McEnroe, Singing At A Party, Stuffed If I Know, The Sheik of Scrubby Creek, The Vasectomy Song, Waltzing Matilda, Waratah Rock 'n Roll Ball.

(1983)


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BOUND FOR BOTANY BAY

(This album was formerly called 'Fair Dinkum JW') There are songs of humour, love and of course Aussie ballads:-

(Why Don't We) Separate and Be Lovers?, (You've Gotta Be) Fair Dinkum, Botany Bay, Brisbane Ladies, Country Football, Just a Dog, Kill the Night, Love of a True Blue Girl, Road Train, Ryebuck Shearer, Silver-Haired Showman, With My Swag Upon My Shoulder, Wrinkles, Your Body Feels Like Heaven to Me.

(1982)


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OLD MAN EMU

This Album (Formerly titled 'True Blue') contains 14 Original Tracks. It features Old Man Emu, which became an instant No. 1 hit back in 1970:-

A Granda Plan For Landa, Big Country Round - Boyhood Story, Diggers Of The Anzac (This Is Gallipoli), Hawkesbury River Lovin', Heaven's Right Here, Murrumbidgee Madness, Old Man Emu, Only A Dog, Send Down The Rain, Springbrook, The Breaker, True Blue, Under The Bridge.

(1982)



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