Album:
Wangaratta Wahine entered the Australian albums chart* on 13 January 1975 and peaked at #14.
Songwriters:
Dave Flett, Mic Conway
Producer:
Ern Rose
Record label of Australian release:
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*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band were an Australian jug band, formed in 1969 by Mic Conway (“Captain Matchbox”) on lead vocals, washboard and ukulele; and his brother, Jim Conway, on harmonica, kazoo and vocals. They issued four studio albums, Smoke Dreams (1973), Wangaratta Wahine (1974), Australia (1975) and Slightly Troppo (1978), before they disbanded in September 1980.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captain_Matchbox_Whoopee_Band
Lyrics:
I walked in the roadhouse restaurant.
It had been a long drive, my mind was far away.
The lady at the counter asked me, ‘What do you want?’
But as I looked towards the plastic palm trees
here’s all I could say:
My wahine in Wang, Wangaratta
It is not goodbye, we will hula again.
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