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Did you know that when slim dusty was 7 his friends called him bolton because he had a pet chicken called bplten and he took it around wih him everywhere until it got run over by his dads car

Callum are you that much of a trouble maker on this site??? Fletch put me on to this. lol.!!!!

Above user make some edits about Slim Dusty being born in the back of a car and having a disorder which made him fear bad omens. I reverted due to suspicion about the accuracy, particularly since the user has a history of vandalizing. Everyking 00:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

LOL 124.186.22.228 (talk) 12:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Real "Pub With No Beer"

The location of the Pub which inspired the poem & subsequent song is disputed. This should be noted in the article. Design 02:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with the term "Urban Legend" in the last line as Slim Dusty and his family believed it to be true - could you provide proof that it is not true? 139.163.18.10 03:29, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Was that really Anne?

Or does he have a son he sang those duets with in the 1980s? I can't believe that, as the article states "award-winning" regarding Anne, while his "dueting partner" is singing *very* off-key :) Sorry I can only remember the 1983 tune "I Haven't Changed A Bit" right now. Horrible - some guys in school choirs can sing better than this. -andy 80.129.107.38 06:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Article needs a bit of a cleanup, starting it now. --Mikecraig 04:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Slim Dusty was the first artist broadcast from space"

My wife said she heard this factoid on one of the special feature of a Wiggles DVD (It's a Wiggly Wiggly World, I think) from Slim Dusty's wife and then I saw the assertion on the official Slim Dusty web site. When I also found the claim on a website entitled "ABC News On-Line" I felt motivated to add a citation to this article and remove the "urban legend" caveat. I then added an allusion made by Shuttle pilot Robert Crippen to his playing a tape of the song while passing over Australia.

I'm now having some second thoughts. I'd be happier if there was more concrete NASA evidence. (As an earlier editor indicated, a compilation of NASA wake-up calls shows that this song was played in 1985, but I believe this was after Crippen's aforementioned flight and, more importantly, pertains to music played from earth to the Shuttle, not the other way around.) In addition, I spotted a blog that stated that an Apollo flight had transmitted a completely different song in the 1970's (although I didn't see any clear evidence to support this blogger's contention).

In short, feel free to revert, partially revert, and/or add appropriate caveats around my recent edit. (No offense will be taken :-) ) As always, whether fer or agin, citations would be a good thing. And, if it turns out a superior resource contradicts my edit's content, I sincerely apologize for adding my earnest ignorance to this article. Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 03:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

One more set of caveats: The ABC News On-Line article states that the tune was played by Shuttle crew Crippen and Young in 1983. But, according to the relevant WP article, Young wasn't on the 1983 Shuttle (STS-7). Young and Crippen were both on the 1981 Shuttle (STS-1) and, when I browse the NASA transcript of Crippen's interview, it appears that Crippen was referring to playing the Waltzing Matilda tape on STS-1 (1981). Sooo, assuming the underlying assertion is true (about Slim Dusty's tune being the first broadcast from space), it appears it might have happened in 1981, not 1983. Perhaps it was simply the first tune broadcast to earth from a Shuttle? Oh, well, just more food for indigestion. Any information from reliable resources appreciated. Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 04:12, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Crippen quote

I removed the following from the article; this is way, way too peripheral, in my opinion:

In a NASA transcript from an interview with Space Shuttle Pilot Robert L. Crippen, Crippen mentions:

"The PR [Public Relations] that followed the [Shuttle] flight I think was somewhat overwhelming.... But we got to go see a lot of places around the world. Did Europe. Got to go to Australia; neat place. In fact, I had sort of cheated on that. I kept a tape of 'Waltzing Matilda' and played it as we were coming over one of the Australian ground stations, just hoping that maybe somebody would give us an invite to go to Australia, since I’d never been there. But that was fun." (Crippen, 2006, p. 34) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)