"Farewell Aunty Jack" was the closing theme to ''
The Aunty Jack Show'', played at the end of each episode. It was re-recorded and released as a hit single in late 1973 and spent
3 weeks at number one in the charts in Australia in February and March 1974.
[ Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ]Australian Recording Industry Association
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(ARIA) created their own charts
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in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–74.
The music was written by
Rory O'Donoghue
Rory O'Donoghue (13 May 194913 December 2017) was an Australian actor, composer and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970s ABC Television sketch comedy series ''The Aunty Jack Show'', and for playing the guita ...
, who also did the singing as the character "Thin Arthur", whereas "Aunty Jack" (
Grahame Bond
Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
Early career
Bond began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s ...
) provided wise-cracks and other spoken commentary to the lyrics, addressed to the listener and the singer.
The single had Aunty Jack demanding that listeners ''listen to this song real close, because I tell you what, if you don't I'm gonna jump through your speakers and rip yer bloody arms off'', whereas on the TV show, Aunty Jack threatened to jump through the television screen and ''rip yer bloody arms off'', if viewers didn't watch the show the following week.
The 7" single was released on
Polydor Records
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together with a 7" picture disc edition of the single, making this one of the first Australian 7" picture discs. This version has a listed play time of 3:24. The 'B' side recording was "Doin' the Aunty Jack", with a listed play time of 2:10.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
* ''
The Aunty Jack Show''
** ''
Aunty Jack Introduces Colour
''Aunty Jack Introduces Colour'' is a one-off television special edition of ''The Aunty Jack Show'', broadcast on ABC television on the night of 28 February 1975. It was created two years after ''The Aunty Jack Show'' finished, and featured the ...
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Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong
''Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong'' is an Australian album released in November 1974 as a spin-off from the cult ABC Television show ''Aunty Jack''. It contains a mixture of songs and sketches and, along with the single "Farewell Aunty Jack", is the ...
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Wollongong the Brave
Aunty Jack's ''Wollongong the Brave'' is a collection of four comedy specials derived from the Australian television series, ''The Aunty Jack Show''. The fourth and final episode was the precursor to '' The Norman Gunston Show''. The episodes we ...
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References
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1973 singles
Number-one singles in Australia
Comedy television theme songs
The Aunty Jack Show