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I know which way I'm voting on the first question but I'm just not sure on the second. Now if the Jimmy Little version of Stand By Me is not available in you area it should be on Sotify. . check it out, it's kinda special ...well in my opinion..I mean the original is special but Jimmy Little makes it his own and does it justice.

And the win goes to one of the covers....well done Thin Lizzie...so if anyone is keeping track that's 1 all for originals and covers..... This week is a double vote... But next week I'm tipping another victory for the covers with what I have planned.

Second last NAIDOC day and so much I haven't shared...today it's Band Day. these fellas deserve way more recognition than they have... The Pigram Brothers.. The Black Arm Band.. Coloured Stone...poor bloody Brendan, forever getting in trouble with his mum Saltwater Band Warumpi Band The Medics...about to blow up the world.. Lonely Boys..creating their own genre

I promised a special poll for NAIDOC week then had to spend two days trying to find the flippin song I wanted... Because I'm not sure it's gunna work I'm trying a new feature I think I found and hopefully, if this works, there are 2 poles... Both feature Jimmy Little (OAM) as the cover and both the originals are so identifiable I probably don't need to post them...so enjoy ya twofa (two for one). So poll A: The Stand By Me Challenge Edit: Poll A is wrong, this is not the Jimmy Little cover of Ben E Kings song, it is a completely different song....so we had a reel to reel of Jimmy singing the Ben E King song in a country style when I was a kid but despite searching I cannot find it. Original: Same name different song: Poll B (if it works): The Under the Bridge Challenge: Original: Cover 1: Cover 2 (cos I neglect the Brits, and I can never unheard this so why should you)

@jillar....I wanted to like your results post because no masses but fibrosis is still a sad face. But I am really happy that there were no masses. @Sazerac .... Stay safe my friend @reciprocity ...well I've been saving for a car....might just hop a plane instead ...

I love me a nice battered scallop deep fried from the chippy...but Reci's bbq ones sound spesh...and he said the magice word...pineapple!.... Oh Reci have you cracked an egg into the middle of a pineapple ring on the barbie? That's real nice.

Technically it's test cricket...5 day matches but with the Aussies crashing out to the poms cricket is a sore point at the moment....I was confessing to my like of serving my revenge icy cold.

There Yorta Yorta people get their own day...and no it's not JUST because of their Victorian location post walk off...this mob are leaders in the fight for recognition...these fellas lead the aboriginal rights movement, the fight to be counted as residents, the right to vote, and just to be heard and to be recognised as equals, they are musos, they are sportsmen, they are politicians, lawyers, activists, composers, some have been knighted....and William Cooper even has a garden named after him at Yad VaShem.... Anyhow... During their time on the mission in NSW, before the walk off, when they crossed the Murray into Victoria, they were visited by the Frisk choir from Tennessee...they heard a hymn, and translated it into their language... And they still sing it today... The Tennessee connection: How it sounds in Yorta Yorta Jimmy Little lead the charge but we heard him earlier this week...after Jimmy we have his neice, who is an operatic soprano and composer... Deborah Cheetham singing an excert from the opera Pecan Summer that she wrote about The Walk Off.. Young Isiah Firebrace with the big arse voice And Briggs...

Confession: My boss hates the colour green so much when someone leased green cars for the business he tried to send them back and couldn't so he paid out the 3 year contract and returned them so they wouldn't be in our carpark...so for his birthday I had a bunch of green balloons delivered from someone at work who shafted me a few months ago. He's on the bosses shit list now. Confession: I like to play the long game.

Don't swear at me! Me: sitting on the bus trying to decide what to get for tea at the chippy....should my flake be grilled or battered...should I get butterfish instead...do I want potato cakes or pumpkin cakes or both....chicken salt or plain...a crab stick, some prawns, some muscles, a scollop or two....calamari rings?????? Argh! Farkle darkle, who does decisions on the weekend?

I have friends who have successfully quit with Chantix... Everyone I know who had success with it did the full 3 months. I have a failed quit using it because it didn't agree with me. If you do get any odd side effects please see your doctor immediately don't down play them. Adverse reactions are very rare but they do happen. If things don't feel right, then please see the doctor.

^ That!!!!! Now, only 18 months later, I can't believe how easy it was... BUT that's bull, you read my posts from a year ago and it was hard...you read my posts from 16 months ago...Hooley Dooley I was crawling may way over broken glass, it was hard but each day it got a teeny tiny bit easier...I can't tell you the last time I thought I'd like a smoke, I don't remember...but it's kind of like childbirth (and if you've been there you will get this) during labour it's horrible, and painful, and you swear never, ever again because it can be hell but you see that bub and before long your thinking you could have another... Not because it wasn't hard but because once your through it it doesn't seem as hard as it was. Honestly this was the easiest quit I have had because I didn't focus on how long it would last etc I just worried about one day...committed to not smoking for 1 day...woke up in the morning and committed again...I just cared about that one day, here and now, not a week or a month or a year just one day. And I laughed...laughed and laughed watched so much crap on you tube... comedians, people trying to understand Aussie slang..stupid stuff...but you know what laughing does, it releases endorphins....wanna know what they are...they are your bodies natural feel happy hormones...makes the hard stuff easier.

Tomorra is Yorta Yorta day....where even Tennessee is gunna get a mention ...

The chicks...well some of them... Kicking off with Ruby Hunter, wife to Archie and an amazing sing writer And with Archie... Miss these girls, they rocked but this traditional song is now taught in schools...sounds great with a choir too.. Jess...cos the kid asked me to...

NOPE....clearly I have and clearly it was found wanting. Saz...keeping NOLA and all her wonderful creatures in my thoughts and prayers, even the not so wonderful ones.

Didn't load before the phone died last night.... Some of them fellas from down south... Many said Lionel Rose's boxing career. Was hindered by his sing .... None of them were world champs though and none of them had a number 1 Hit around the country... So I love this guy's stuff...brilliant writer and singer... And some of the younger ones...

That's cos just like me you have awesome taste in food.

Wondering how pizza makes life better and not worse. Me, I'm far...nope finished.... Getting ready to clock off.

Ok let's see who we can look to today...this is one for them fellas from up north, Torres Strait Islands, and north of Alice Springs....which is still way, way down south for most of you mob.. Seaman Dan...first recorded at 69...retired by 80... ^ @Sazerac check Kutcha Edwards I love his stuff, in English and language. Some country... And let's wind it up with ...Gurrumul

Thanks Saz.. with the northern hemisphere rescue.... It's not the song I wanted but here's the only other Harold Blair I could dig up... Bloody predictive text and auto correct us doin my head in.

I loves you's all!

Moving along with NAIDOC week, today is Jimmy Little day....well actually I'm going to sneak a Howard Blair in there, the first Aboriginal to go to Julliard, he was not even considered a citizen of his own country so had to get a special passport (we aren't squeaky clean Saz)...but I managed to find an old recording or a traditional Aboriginal hymn arranged by Peter Sculthorpe... But as I said today is Jimmy Little day.... it's been hard to whittle down his huge catalogue to find which songs to play...and a little sad that political correctness has seen one of the songs I want be unavailable...see not only was Jimmy the first Aboriginal to break into the mainstream market and inspire a generation by being on telly...he was doing all of this when his people weren't citizens..he was the first Aboriginal to record and chart a song written by an Aboriginal (his dad)...if you can ever find it, check it out "Give the Black Boy a Go"...can't imagine why it's not online but considering it was written by an Aboriginal for an Aboriginal to sing and is historically significant I wish the wowsers would get over themselves .... So instead, here is his first chart topper (although I prefer the way he sang it when he was older)...Jimmy is just one of a few Yorta Yorta who you will be hearing from....but this performance on Bandstand was a first, made the country wake up and give his people pride... Some voice just get better with age..

How much older does he look since last medal?...so tippin real rugby (union) an not that poncy league stuff... With no taped ears tipping he's not in the second row ...Well done Sam....congratulations Nanna Door!

11.... @G67 ... Glad your mob is all ok, although not sure the sound of the walls twisting is awesome.

Oh do sweet rolls have cinnamon? I was going to make snickerdoodles but she wanted choc chip and some Anzac bickies.