NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Down Under (song)

"Down Under" is the title of a New Wave song of the reggae flavour, recorded in 1982 by the Australian rock group Men at Work, and featured on their album Business as Usual. This song went all the way to #1 on Australian as well as international charts, including the UK and America. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... This article has been selected as the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... Business as Usual is the first album by Australian band Men at Work, released in 1982. ... Image File history File links Down_Under_by_Men_at_Work. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... This article has been selected as the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... Business as Usual is the first album by Australian band Men at Work, released in 1982. ...

It has become a popular and patriotic song in Australia. This is an incomplete list. ...

The lyrics are about an Australian traveller circling the globe, proud of his nationality and about his interactions with people he meets on his travels.^[1] One of the verses refers to Vegemite sandwiches, among other things, and this particular lyric has become a well-known phrase. The flute part in the song is based around the tune of Kookaburra, a well-known Australian children's rhyme. In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Vegemite on toast. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... Kookaburra (also known by its first line: Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree) is a popular Australian nursery rhyme and round about the kookaburra (an Australian bird), written by Marion Sinclair. ...

The song is a perennial favorite on Australian radio and television, and became well-known outside Australia after it was used as a theme song by the crew of Australia II in their successful bid to win the America's Cup in 1983. It wasn't the first Australian single to gain popularity in the USA, as Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport was #3 in the USA in 1963. U ALL SUK COCK ... The Americas Cup trophy The Americas Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international sport, predating the FA Cup by two decades and the Modern Olympics by 45 years. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport was a song by Rolf Harris written in 1957, inspired by Harry Belafontes calypsos, which became a hit across the world in the 1960s. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Another version of the song was released in 1999 by the punk rock band Pennywise, as a bonus track on the album Straight Ahead. While Pennywise is an American band, it frequently tours Australia, and often plays the song at live shows as a tribute to its many Australian fans. Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... For the Stephen King creature, see It (monster). ... Straight Ahead is the fifth album by Pennywise. ...

A version of this song is on the Kangaroo Jack soundtrack. The song was also used in advertisements for the Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo, though it never appears in the film itself. Kangaroo Jack is a buddy-action movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Jerry OConnell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken and Estella Warren. ... Finding Nemo is an Academy Award-winning computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ...

The punk rock band Funeral Dress also had a version of the song on its album A Way of Life. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... A Way Of Life is a 2004 film directed by former child actor Amma Asante. ...

Colin Hay had his version as well as an acoustic version on his album Man at Work. Cover of the 2003 album by Colin Hay, Man At Work Colin James Hay is a musician who made his mark in the 1980s as a member of the Australian group Men at Work. ... Man at Work is an album by Australian singer Colin Hay, released in 2003. ...

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