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My Name Means Horse
''My Name Means Horse'' is the second album from American-born Australian folk pop singer, Ross Ryan. Its title references a lyric from his hit single, "I Am Pegasus" (September 1973), which appears thereon. The album, issued in February 1974, was Ryan's most successful. It won Most Popular Australian Album at the 1974 ''TV Week'' King of Pop Awards. The record was accredited with three gold discs: the first was presented to Ryan by then-Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. Background Well ahead of his album, ''My Name Means Horse'', American-born Australian folk pop singer, Ross Ryan issued a single, in September 1973, "I Am Pegasus", which became his highest charting hit, it reached No. 9 on ''Go-Set'' Top 40, staying in the chart from November until May the following year. The album followed in February 1974, its title refers to a line from that single. It is Ryan's most successful album, which reached No. 3 on ''Go-Set'' Australian Albums Top 20; and was ac ...
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Ross Ryan
Ross Edwin Ryan (born 13 December 1950) is an American-born Australian singer-songwriter and producer. His signature tune, "I Am Pegasus", was released in September 1973, which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian Singles. Its parent album, '' My Name Means Horse'', was released in February 1974, which reached No. 3 on the Australian Album chart. Biography Early years Ross Ryan was born on 13 December 1950, in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The family moved to Mount Manypeaks near Albany, Western Australia in 1959 where they settled on a sheep farm of . By the age of 13 years he was writing songs and learning guitar. Ryan attended Albany High, where he took the lead in ''The Music Man''; and he produced a radio program, ''High School Half Hour'', for the local station 6VA. He joined a number of local bands including The Sett and Saffron. Ryan moved to Perth, undertook an electronics course and worked as an audio operator at a TV station, STW 9.McFarlane, . Archived frothe o ...
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EMI Records
EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It originally founded as a British flagship label by the music company of the same name in 1972, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels. The label was later launched worldwide. It has a branch in India called "EMI Records India", run by director Mohit Suri. In 2014, Universal Music Japan revived the label in Japan as the successor to EMI Records Japan. In June 2020, Universal revived the label as the successor to Virgin EMI, with Virgin Records now operating as an imprint of EMI Records. History An EMI Records Ltd. legal entity was created in 1956 as the record manufacturing and distribution arm of EMI in the UK. It oversaw EMI's various labels, including The Gramophone Co. Ltd., Columbia Graphophone Company, and Parlophone Co. Ltd. The global success that EMI enjoyed in the 1960s exposed the fact that the company had ...
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I Am Pegasus
"I Am Pegasus" is a pop rock song written and recorded by American-Australian singer-songwriter Ross Ryan, which was issued as a single in September 1973 ahead of his third album, '' My Name Means Horse'' (February 1974). It was produced by Peter Dawkins for EMI Music Australia, which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts. Ryan told ''APRAP''s Debbie Kruger in March 2002 how he had merged two songs, "One was about the fact that I had just discovered that Ross means horse... also at the time I was having a really disastrous attempt at a relationship with an air hostess... wasgetting nowhere with them, so I combined them and got a flying horse. And I came up with Pegasus... I looked up all the things that rhymed with Pegasus and I got Dimitrius and Sagittarius." The writing process took the artist about two months and after Dawkins heard it, the producer felt, "it was the obvious single." Track listing All track were written by Ross Ryan Ross Edwin Ryan (born 13 De ...
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Australian Pop Music Awards
Australian pop music awards are a series of inter-related national awards that gave recognition to popular musical artists and have included the ''Go-Set'' pop poll (1966–1972); ''TV Week'' King of Pop Awards (1967–1978); ''TV Week'' and ''Countdown (Australian TV series), Countdown'' Music Awards (1979–1980); the ''Countdown'' Awards (1981–1982) and ''Countdown'' Music and Video Awards (1983–1987). Early awards were based on popular voting from readers of teenage pop music newspaper ''Go-Set'' and television program guide ''TV Week''. They were followed by responses from viewers of ''Countdown'', a TV pop music series (1974–1987) on national broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Some of the later award ceremonies incorporated listed nominees and peer-voted awards. From 1987 the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) instituted its own peer-voted ARIA Music Awards. 1966–1972:''Go-Set'' pop poll results Teen-oriented pop music newspaper, ...
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Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1967 to 1977, he was notable for being the head of a Reformism, reformist and socially progressive administration that extraordinarily ended with his removal as prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr (governor-general), John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam is the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office. Whitlam served as an Navigator#In aviation, air navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force for four years during World War II, and worked as a barrister following the war. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1952, becoming a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Werriwa. Whitlam became deputy leader of the Labo ...
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Go-Set
''Go-Set'' was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages. Widely described as a pop music "bible", it became an influential publication, introduced the first national pop record charts and featured many notable contributors including fashion designer Prue Acton, journalist Lily Brett, rock writer / band manager Vince Lovegrove, music commentator Ian Meldrum, rock writer / music historian Ed Nimmervoll and radio DJ Stan Rofe. It spawned the original Australian edition of ''Rolling Stone Australia, Rolling Stone'' magazine in late 1972. History Foundation: 1964–1967 In 1964, Monash University student newspaper ''Chaos co-editors, John Blakeley, Damien Broderick and Tony Schauble, renamed the paper ''Lot's Wife (student newspaper), Lot's Wife''. Phillip Frazer was a staffer and later became co-editor with future ...
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ...
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Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts. Before the Kent Report, ''Go-Set'' magazine published weekly Top-40 Singles from 1966, and Album charts from 1970 until the magazine's demise in August 1974. David Kent later published Australian charts from 1940 to 1973 in a retrospective fashion, using state by state chart data obtained from various Australian radio stations. Background Kent had spent a number of years previously working in the music industry at both EMI and Phonogram records and had developed the report initially as a hobby. The Kent Music Report was first release ...
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Ross Ryan Albums
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