Inspired by the mention of the Thompson Twins, who I’d never heard of and didn’t know if they were London gansters or a transport company.
Here’s some tunes from artists you blokes may never have heard of. Just for you Rob, I’ll make it pretty eclectic.
To kick it off, every burnt out DJ’s favourite.
is “men at work” considered rare
It is now. 
Every man and his dog covered this one and still do.
No this one was not written for me. I use Star DU because the old forum reckoned Western Star Down Under was too long, for a user name. Now it’s only just long enough for a post.
One for Driveress and all the gals here.
It’s about Toots Holzheimer a legend in transport circles. The truth was slightly different, but there’s no arguing, she took her Snoopy MAN where trucks were never meant to go. Tragically killed, unloading pipes in Weipa.
Sorry SDU same thing with the vid Frangers sent me on the political thread, I can’t get it.
Funnilly enough the other vids on this thread I can.
Mystery.mate.
Out of interest what was the list of tracks?
“Video unavailable”. Some region-specific thing perhaps?
Maybe you have to be in Belgium?
Skyhooks Living in the 70s, Rob.
I’ve just heard about this great band called Crowded House
INXS and The Seekers could put a tune or two together.Or the theme tune Cattle Men in The Cattle Carters film.
Yep region specific videos only way to watch them is with a VPN if it’s blocked in a certain country like they are with us in old blighty.
On a quiz show t’other day there was a question about Sid James and the Carry On films. The contestant had never heard of them.
I am not saying that Carry On were better than Shakespeare (although maybe they are funnier than his comedies) but I was surprised that they were unknown to someone in their early 30’s.
Crowded House? Yes, good.
But then again, there were and still are so many good bands out there, who can know them all?
Still showing repeats of “Bless this House” on ITV3. Then as now the main attraction was Sally Geeson ( 73 years old now !!!) who played Sid James’ daughter.
Sid James collapsed and died on stage at the Sunderland Empire in 1976.
One of my mother’s best friends was married to his double, even had the same hair and laugh !! difference was he was a butcher from Gateshead.
Sounds like ‘a catch’ for her.
I was a big fan of Slim Dusty back in the day so was well pleased to hear later that he wrote his song ‘Road Trains’ (I think that was the name I have the LP but nothing to play it on now) after drinking with some Buntine drivers in a pub.
No idea if it was true or not, did you ever hear that?
I suspect that no one will say
“Drivers in a a pub?..Impossible!”
As I recall the story, he sat down on a couch which was part of the stage scenery, and simply never got up again, slipping away as peacefully as anyone could possibly do.
Sally Geeson, yes, remember her from that series very well, along with Sally Thomsett from Man About The House, these were the standard Celebrity Crushes from my generation of boys, along with Jenny Agutter of course. IIRC Sally went top-less in a film starring Norman Wisdom, What’s Good for the Goose (1969)
Add Paula Wilcox to that list.
That narrows it down to a couple of dozen! 
Slim wrote about 1,000 songs and recorded 100ish.
I’ll take a stab and hope I’ve guessed the right one.
Slim’s old man was a cattle cocky.
Slim was a master entertainer, most of his gigs were School of Arts halls or on the back of a truck type venues. Intimate shows where he could mingle with the audience, after the performance. No superstar airs and graces wit him, that’s what made him so popular.
He could tailor each performance to the location and audience. His repertoire included comical, trucks, localities, horses, primary industry occupations and specific remote properties. The genres were country, pop and bush ballads. His wife, Anne, also was a song writer of note, who could covey that the lyrics were born from actual experience, when they weren’t, she wrote the song linked below. Anne was the business brain brain of the partnership, Slim the drawcard.
Another popular artist with a vast and varied repertoire.
