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Wildlife Warriors (album)
''Wildlife Warriors'' (subtitled It's Time) is a compilation album by Australian country music artist John Williamson. The album was released in November 2006 following the death of Steve Irwin and contains important environmental songs; many of which inspirations to Irwin. A$1 from each sale was donated to the Wildlife Warriors conservation foundation, a charity founded by Steve and Terri Irwin. Williamson said " tevewas a loud, proud Aussie who promoted the wonders of our ancient land with incredible enthusiasm. So if my new CD helps raise more awareness for the Wildlife Warriors' cause, that's great!" The album includes two live recording from Irwin's memorial. The album, peaked at number 78 on the ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici .... The album was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (singer)
John Robert Williamson (born 1 November 1945) is an Australian country music and folk music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, television host and conservationist. Williamson usually writes and performs songs that relate to the history and culture of Australia, particularly the outback, in a similar vein to Slim Dusty and Buddy Williams before him. Williamson has released over fifty albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books and has sold more than 4,000,000 albums in Australia. His best known hit is " True Blue". On Australia Day (26 January) in 1992 Williamson was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) with the citation: "for service to Australian country music and in stimulating awareness of conservation issues". He has received twenty-six Golden Guitar trophies at the Country Music Awards of Australia, he has won three ARIA Music Awards for Best Country Album and, in 2010, was inducted into the related Hall of Fame. Early life John Robert Williamson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rip Rip Woodchip
"Rip Rip Woodchip" is a song by Australian country singer John Williamson. The song was released in August 1989 as the second single from Williamson's eighth studio album ''Warragul''. The song peaked at number 39 on the ARIA Charts. $1 from each sale went towards the Australian Conservation Foundation The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is Australia's national environmental organisation, launched in 1965 in response to a proposal by the World Wide Fund for Nature for a more co-ordinated approach to sustainability. One high-profil .... At the 1990 APRA Awards (Australia), the song won Most Performed Australasian Country Work. In 1995, the logging industry threatened to sue Williamson over the song. Williamson said "People say I'm a green, but I'm not. It's just how I feel and if you don't like it, too bad. I became a conservationist in 1980 when I woke up to it. I left farming in part because I'm so into trees. I think an old growth forest is more important t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Compilation Albums
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Blue (John Williamson Song)
"True Blue" is an Australian folk song written and performed by singer-songwriter John Williamson. The lyrical content utilises Australian slang heavily, with the title meaning ''authentically Australian'' (from a British phrase). The song was released in March 1982 as a single from ''True Blue - The Best of John Williamson'', but failed to chart. The lyrics included a reference to Vegemite, a food paste, but that was removed in a later version because Williamson "just didn't want the song to be commercialised". The 1986 version was used for the Australian Made campaign. The song was adopted by the Australia national cricket team and the Australia national rugby union team as an unofficial theme song and is often performed at sporting events or other ceremonies. Williamson performed the song twice on acoustic guitar at Australia Zoo during Steve Irwin's public memorial service (it was Irwin's favourite song); once shortly after the beginning ceremony, and again at the end as I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Me A Home Among The Gumtrees
''Give Me a Home Among the Gumtrees'' (or ''Home Among the Gumtrees'') is a popular Australian song written in 1974 by Wally Johnson and Bob Brown (aka Captain Rock). History It was originally performed as a satirical number in Johnson and Brown's comedy act at the Flying Trapeze Cafe in Fitzroy, Melbourne and was first recorded in 1975 on the Captain Rock album ''Buried Treasure'' on Mushroom Records. At that time the Australian Government was running an open competition to find a replacement for ''God Save the Queen'' as Australia's national anthem; the ''Gumtrees'' song was Johnson and Brown's entry. The bands first roadie with the bands nicknamed THE EMU had the cassette tape of capt'rock. and insisted that h.a.t g. was a tune was very well suited to their sound and from the first night it was performed at the Port o Call hotel Coolangatta it was a hit for the band. In 1982, although this story is not confirmed by all members of the band, they recorded a cover version of ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren H
A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Anglo-Norman concept of free warren, which had been, essentially, the equivalent of a hunting license for a given woodland. Architecture of the domestic warren The cunicularia of the monasteries may have more closely resembled hutches or pens, than the open enclosures with specialized structures which the domestic warren eventually became. Such an enclosure or ''close'' was called a ''cony-garth'', or sometimes ''conegar'', ''coneygree'' or "bury" (from "burrow"). Moat and pale To keep the rabbits from escaping, domestic warrens were usually provided with a fairly substantive moat, or ditch filled with water. Rabbits generally do not swim and avoid water. A ''pale'', or fence, was provided to exclude predators. Pillow mounds The most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodbye Blinky Bill
"Goodbye Blinky Bill" is a song written and recorded by John Williamson with Bullamakanka and John’s daughters Ami and Georgie. The song was released in a limited edition in March 1986 as the only single from Williamson's 1986 compilation album '' All the Best''. The song is a conservation song, raising awareness of the decline in numbers of the Australian koala due to deforestation of eucalypts trees; with reference to an anthropomorphic koala named Blinky Bill. A$1 from each sale was donated to the Koala Preservation Society in Port Macquarie Port Macquarie is a coastal town in the local government area of Port Macquarie-Hastings. It is located on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, about north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane. The town is located on the Tasman Sea c .... The song has been covered by The Wayfarers. Track listing ; 7" Side A: "Goodbye Blinky Bill" (with Ami & Georgie Williamson and Bullamakanka) Side B: "Koala Koala" Release hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMI Music
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth largest business group and record label conglomerate in the music industry, and was one of the "Big Four" record companies (now the " Big Three"). Its labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records, and Capitol Records, which are now owned by other companies. EMI was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was also once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but faced financial problems and US$4 billion in debt, leading to its acquisition by Citigroup in February 2011. Citigroup's ownership was temporary, as EMI announced in November 2011 that it would sell its music arm to Vivendi's Universal Music Group for $1.9 billion and its publishing business to a Sony/ATV consortium for around $2.2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Irwin
Terri Raines Irwin (née Raines, born July 20, 1964) is an American-Australian conservationist, television personality and author who is the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland. She is the widow of Steve Irwin. Born in Oregon, she began working for an independent animal rehabilitation center for injured predator mammals at the age of 22 while working for her family's trucking business. While touring wildlife rehabilitation facilities in Australia in 1991, she had a chance meeting with Irwin. The two married in 1992, and went on to co-star in ''The Crocodile Hunter'', their unconventional television nature documentary series and its spin-off series, ''Croc Files'', ''The Crocodile Hunter Diaries'', and ''Crikey! It's the Irwins''. They had two children, Bindi and Robert, before Steve's death in 2006 from a stingray injury. Following Steve's death, Terri became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. She and her two children continue to operate Australia Zoo. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
