First Time! John Williamson - True Blue Reaction

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  • @Myer_Dee-_
    @Myer_Dee-_ วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    I don't care what date ''Australia Day'' falls on. I just care that we have one because it's important. It's important for every country.

  • @babyboomer6372
    @babyboomer6372 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    I get this song, but that's due to being on Australian soil for 50 years, first coming to the country at 27 (not old, but not college age young). Anyway, 'I Still Call Australia Home' has the same type of nuance as 'True Blue' and is perhaps Peter Allen's gift to his home country.

    • @pittarak1
      @pittarak1 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I came to Oz when I was 23 and this was the big song around that time. Brings back memories.

  • @enterchanelname
    @enterchanelname วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    This one hurts; especially seeing as many of us are being reprimanded for wanting to celebrate Australia day this Sunday.
    Thanks for doing this one.

    • @criticalthinkersrule
      @criticalthinkersrule วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      John Williamson hasn't made a statement on his postion re Australia Day. He is, however, a strong supporter of a republic, changing the flag, environmental causes, and indiginous people. Not exactly a conservative, so I'd say he either supports a change of date or is, at least, ambivalent. His line in the song "Are you really disappearing, just another dying race" would appear to be about the Aboriginal people. The date of Australia Day was fixed quite recently in history, and was badly chosen at the time. There is no good reason why it can't be changed if a significant proportion of the population find it offensive - to a date that no one finds offensive.

    • @iankearns774
      @iankearns774 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Just do it, pay no attention to all the whiners and virtue signalers. So many new Immigrants become citizens on this day as well, they are hurting those guys with all their bullshit. I will be playing Aussie music all day tomorrow, having a barbecue with mates and our misses's and kids and having a few cold ones. True Blue is on the songlist.

    • @iankearns774
      @iankearns774 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@criticalthinkersrule You can change it to any day you want and they will still complain, facts are we get one Australia day and they have scores of Indigenous holidays all throughout the year. Its Un-Australian to not celebrate Australia day on the gazetted day. Lets put it to a referendum, the flag and the national Anthem included but I question whether you would accept the outcome, lets face facts Albo and his cronies have not accepted the hard NO in the referendum has he?

    • @criticalthinkersrule
      @criticalthinkersrule วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@iankearns774 I propose a compromise where we make a symbolic move and change it to 25 January; the day before the first fleet arrived. Then it can celebrate both Australia as it was before the modern world arrived, and the huge changes that then came. No one would even notice the timing change as far as the holiday calendar is concerned, but a significant bit of acknowledgement and reconciliation would have taken place and the country would be that much less fraught - especially after the disgraceful lies and fear-monering by the Murdoch media and political right regarding the extremely benign Voice to Parliament proposal.

    • @davidcruse6589
      @davidcruse6589 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Only hurts if you buy into it
      Just get on enjoy our day
      Leave the miserable one's
      To sit and stew
      You can't make people enjoy like
      Some Just choose to be victims and a miserable existence
      That's their choice as I feel no shame for our history
      We've improved in every generation and those where different time no one is around from that era
      They have the freedom to protest lawfully just as we do to celebrate
      That's what makes us unique and a great country with the majority moving forward to a better Australia
      So enjoy the day drown out the noise Cheers fellow Aussie 🦘🇦🇺👍

  • @Mindteaser70
    @Mindteaser70 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Lovely song! Happy Australia Day everybody!!!

    • @davidcruse6589
      @davidcruse6589 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      You to hope your enjoying yourself as well🦘🇦🇺👍

    • @Mindteaser70
      @Mindteaser70 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@davidcruse6589 I have had quite a nice day, thank you. Hope yours went well too? 👍

  • @brettfrench6121
    @brettfrench6121 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    What Wino said
    The Seekers ''I Am Australian: Special Farewell Performance (all 5 verses)''

  • @monaromark1021
    @monaromark1021 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    It's a song to celebrate Australia day with.
    Especially for country blue collar people.
    Australia day is this Sunday coming. Cheers.

  • @keviningram6121
    @keviningram6121 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    It’s what it means to be a True Blue (genuine) Australian 😊

  • @kaafromoz
    @kaafromoz วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This song especially on our Australia Day is super special..It is about us our values our way of being there for our mates..True Blue is deep in its meaning..it is how we stand with each other when days are tough and when someone is in need, its a value we hold dear....our mates female and male..This song John performed at Australia Zoo for Steve Irwin's tribute as they packed up his landrover one final time....and that day the tears flowed heavy and real for all who loved him.
    Thanks you both of you for this reaction and Happy Australia Day to all of my fellow Aussie's.
    Keep Safe Keep Strong
    🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤❤❤🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶

  • @I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83
    @I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    lol.. This is quite a big song in Australia. It feels weird watching you two taking it in.
    John Williamson performed this song at Steve Irwin's funeral.
    Cheers,
    Hayley

  • @kazz3956
    @kazz3956 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This is an anthem for things we hold dear, and that is mateship, helping others out in need. The song is often used on TV promoting getting together to help victims of fires or floods, or fundraising for childrens hospitals, etc. To be "True Blue" means to be genuine and loyal.
    A racing car driver at Bathurst in the 80s called Dick Johnson named his car Tru-Blue. It was a blue Ford Falcon.
    John Williamson is a country singer, but has a lot of ballads.

  • @Robbo766
    @Robbo766 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    You'll love Slim Dusty's ''Duncan'' 😁

  • @ComfortablyDumb_Opinions
    @ComfortablyDumb_Opinions วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm pretty damn pleased to see this! Don't hold his genre against him! He's a topbloke!
    You can't live without hearing ''Old Man Emu'' at least once in your life. 😆

  • @DavidPola1961
    @DavidPola1961 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    There have been a few changes to this song since the original in 1986 ,John Williamson AKA Old Man Emu since the 1960's , True Blue means the quintessential Australian you have grown up that way from the early pioneer days

  • @ronanderson49
    @ronanderson49 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    True blue means expressing Australian values - loyal, etc.

    • @petermcculloch4933
      @petermcculloch4933 วันที่ผ่านมา

      True blue has nothing to do with "Australian values".True blue means honest, fair dinkum.

  • @Sandy-dd4le
    @Sandy-dd4le วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    This reminds me of my Uncle Willie, he emigrated to Australia from Scotland in the late sixties, or early seventies. I didnt know him growing up, outside of infrequent visits back to Scotland. When he would tell us of what his life was like there, he made Australians sound very much like they do in this song.
    As a child in the 70's, that was kind of magical, hearing first hand experiences of a far off land. In his Polaroid photos, the sun always shone in Australia, everything seemed bigger and more vibrant. The people sounded friendly,...i guess they were, he married one!
    I'm curious as to if this is a big song only within Australia, or for Australians overseas. I think most of these kinds of songs in Scotland either talk about being forced into leaving the country, or the yearning to return home, and less about the now than this song seems to be. I suspect some of these songs are known in Australia, as a fair chunk of Scottish people went there, willingly or not, over the years.

    • @babyboomer6372
      @babyboomer6372 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I heard the same things about Australia when I was a teenager working in London as a messenger boy, roadie or whatever other stuff I did for swinging London bands. I finally made my way to Skippy country in 1975, and got caught up in the Melbourne music scene, which would eventually lead me to dealing with Nick Cave and his Birthday Party guests (Anita, Rowland, Tracy, Mick, Phil, Genevieve). Not quite the bronzed Aussies and ''Bruces'' I saw on Skippy. I do wish they warned me about Melbourne people being more pale and snotty than the English! For all its worth, I settled in Melbourne with a wife and kids, and in a bizarre twist of things, I actually brushed shoulders with some of the Aussies that comment on this channel but over 40 years ago.
      The sun does shine and everything your uncle told and showed you is correct. But I wound up in Melbourne where the Aussies have dark hair and pale skin and the sky is often grey. Even my wife looked like Sid Vicious when I first met her, and I'm far from being a punk rocker!
      As for this song, I believe it is a call out to Australians and raising the question of Australian values and identity. John Williamson wrote the song in the late 70's and first recorded it in the early 80's. Rural Australia was making way for urban Australia, and there was a suburban sprawl that was ever increasing. Generations of Australians weren't quite like their parents, and capitalism was rampant. Being a Brit that's lived here for 50 years, I know exactly where this song is coming from. But it is a song that Australians of a particular time period are likely to understand. My own kids, who are well into adulthood, wouldn't really have much of an understanding of this song. There are also platitudes and sayings that have been passed down from generation to generation; particular things such as mateship and being fair dinkum. It's very much an Aussie song for Aussies.
      I don't think this song has much to do with Australians overseas or people coming into the country.

    • @babyboomer6372
      @babyboomer6372 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      anyway, that's my interpretation

    • @Sandy-dd4le
      @Sandy-dd4le วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@babyboomer6372 interesting stuff! I've long been interested in the social history aspect of these kinds of songs, and I find the similarities, and differences in the way they are done between the two countries, intriguing.
      So it saddens me somewhat that these things are fading away, the same thing happens here. There is an experience to songs like this, to this kind oral tradition, that can't quite be conveyed by a book or Wikipedia article, no matter how well written.
      BTW, I think my uncle ended up in Perth, perhaps because he had lived in the Perth, Scotland area as a child. I have pretty good memories of two photographs of his that were in my parents house when I was a kid. One of his home, a prefab, largely wooden, single storey cabin style building, with a central doorway and rooms to either side, white picket fence. Set among many just like it, probably in a suburb somewhere.
      The other was of his vehicle, a white Ford, looked like an early UK Ford Escort at the front, but was a van, but much different from Ford here, it had windows and seat in the rear, plus a boot.I guess you guys would say Ute. I always remember he had written, "The King's car" on the back. I never managed to find out exactly what the van was.

  • @liveitup67
    @liveitup67 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Aww, I love this song! My sister, Hayley, said all that needs to be said. Our parents used to take us to see him in concert when we were kids, and we got to see him in our adult years.
    🐕

  • @PhilBradmanElusiveArchive
    @PhilBradmanElusiveArchive วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Very pleasing. Looks like it's worked a treat judging from the comments. Thank you 🙏

  • @nevillewelsh6393
    @nevillewelsh6393 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    True Blue is played at a lot of funerals
    Listen to the start of the song very carefully and you will hear the words of “going away”

  • @Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.
    @Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I don't know this, but I can see in the comments that it's obviously considered an important track and he's a much liked artist in Australia.

  • @sandramartin467
    @sandramartin467 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's about Australian values, what it means to be Australian. When someone says true blue mate or is referring to something being true blue it means real, genuine, it's true, honest and can also be used to describe someone's character so if someone is said to be true blue, they are very loyal. So, the song is asking the question has the values that was ours like loyalty for our country and people changed or gone by the wayside, "died" and asking you to look inside and find what being true blue really means not just personally but as Australians and to bring that loyalty back to our amazing country.

  • @iankearns774
    @iankearns774 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Its about being a good Aussie, honest, loyal, hard working, down to earth. John Williamson is a country singer/balladeer so its a bit country and yeah its about the hard working Aussie. Salt of the earth stuff, a good mate that will always be there for you is True Blue.
    Probably more relatable to Gen Xers and before, I dont reckon the younger gens these days would identify with it, their loss I reckon.

  • @I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83
    @I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have to add something to this video. Though my sister and I were born and raised in Melbourne, our parents are from Geelong, Victoria. A lot of our childhood was spent in the country, so country music is part of our make-up. We've seen John Williamson in concert many times, and we love his songs. I would like to request ''Old Man Emu''. It's an older song by Williamson, but a fun one. Incidentally, John Williamson and Ian 'Molly' Meldrum grew up in the same town and were school friends at one stage. I think they've both been on each other's ''This Is Your Life'' episodes, and I know Williamson shared a few memories of Molly for Molly's autobiography. Not a man I met, but I'm sure he's a top bloke.
    Cheers,
    Hayley

  • @wino5086
    @wino5086 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    The Seekers ''I Am Australian: Special Farewell Performance (all 5 verses)''
    - Still sentimental, still Australian - less hokey(?)

    • @brettfrench6121
      @brettfrench6121 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Sorry.. Here's your Australian badge back.. Good suggestion 👍

    • @notanotherenigma7759
      @notanotherenigma7759 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's a much better song. And wow, Judith Durham's voice, soaring!

  • @rhonda_hart4982
    @rhonda_hart4982 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Woah, that is a very Australian video! Those people are truly true blue!

  • @brettwilkie3833
    @brettwilkie3833 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    To me, it's also about the ongoing loss of the quintessential Australian and many of the old slang terms disappearing, but with the idea that the same fundamentals are hopefully still inside us all, to help our mates etc., to be true blue.

  • @rhonda_hart4982
    @rhonda_hart4982 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Every once in a while, this song really means something to us Aussies. I don't if it still has its ubiquity like it had in the 80's and 90's, but it still seems to be relevant...
    Peter Allen's ''I Still Call Australia Home'' is much the same.

  • @Mindteaser70
    @Mindteaser70 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It would be nice if we got ''Great Southern Land'' by Icehouse this weekend!

  • @Leah91au
    @Leah91au วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    What I like about this song is that he raises some serious questions about identity and still managers to make mention of Vegemite and sponge cake... We do tend to underestimate situations just a bit. Just to keep the show on the road with a she'll be right. 🤠👍
    So, how about this housing situation? Bit shithouse aye?

  • @garymark5152
    @garymark5152 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hello there, this is quite a pretty song as Cynthia mentioned, very much written with the Aussie spirit in mind. It does tug at the heart strings of most Aussies, with a touch of nostalgia, I do shed a tear just a little when I hear this song, thank you for sharing. I do
    Love your ending when you guys say later, that sounds Aussie, a nice way to end the video. Cheers

  • @brettfrench6121
    @brettfrench6121 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Strange how you know what's coming, but then you're hit by memories and emotion that you didn't expect. I had a moment which was broken by the looks on your faces. I forgot you guys didn't like country. 😅 Icehouse had a great song called ''Great Southern Land'', and contrary to what the title may suggest, it isn't a country or southern-boogie song.

  • @leavemealone344
    @leavemealone344 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    lol, you've got to be kidding! 😆

  • @Ozzcaddy
    @Ozzcaddy วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Its about losing the Australian spirit and values that once made what Australia was renowned for. True Blue means being fair dinkum, true to yourself and others. Where others know they could rely on you to give them a hand, mateship, no matter what problem they were in.

  • @djgrant8761
    @djgrant8761 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Have a listen to Slim Dusty singing G’day, G’day, John Williamson singing Old Man Emu and Kamahl singing What Is Australia?

  • @WhatYouTalkinBoutWillisStrokes
    @WhatYouTalkinBoutWillisStrokes วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Still love this song after all these years. You're not going to get any other genre from John Williamson but country.. Australian country. I don't care if you like it or not, I'm gonna suggest ''Old Man Emu'' and ''Boogie With M’ Baby''. The latter is like a g-rated Kevin Bloody Wilson. You'll get to like him in time. He was a school friend of Molly Meldrum's back 100 years ago! lol

  • @JamesDickson-vs5of
    @JamesDickson-vs5of วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I was thinking true blue was a trusted friend, not for me though 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

  • @BeatWittwer-x8p
    @BeatWittwer-x8p วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    If you don't understand Australian vernacular, I suspect this song would be a puzzle ...... not the best introduction to John, he's a great story teller and there are better introductions !!

    • @Rosenburge
      @Rosenburge วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@BeatWittwer-x8p absolutely. Rip Rip Woodchip perhaps!

  • @Mediawatcher2023
    @Mediawatcher2023 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    you never heard of him i find that hard to believe

  • @Mindteaser70
    @Mindteaser70 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    No, I don't think the guy in the end is the singer from Yothu Yindi. lol

  • @ross4970
    @ross4970 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Everything overseas people are told about Australia and Australians are the things we are being made to feel ashamed of.

  • @Starburst_Candy
    @Starburst_Candy วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If you're going to do " Wait that's not it!" There's, " I need you" The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, and Mud.

  • @Sean-me4fv
    @Sean-me4fv วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It's a little bit difficult for anyone who isn't Australian to understand the sentiment in this song. Even younger Australians probably won't get it.

  • @RodNesser
    @RodNesser 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Not sure if you guys already checked out another great Aussie band called Models… if you haven’t already have a look at this track called Hold On… it’s recorded live in 1987… I hope you enjoy it too… th-cam.com/video/yeZdfuoKTgE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FEfOsbUE96juguSL

  • @notanotherenigma7759
    @notanotherenigma7759 วันที่ผ่านมา

    While I like the sentiments of this song, I haven't been able to cop John Williamson since he said if you don't like his music, you are not Australian. Well, I mustn't be an Aussie, because I don't like country stuff. Strange, because I don't mind some folkie stuff, go figure! But this one is certainly NOT for me. If you haven't already done it, I Am Australian by the Seekers is a much more anthemic feel.

  • @corybaker9442
    @corybaker9442 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I hope you're NOT ignoring my request for EMINEM vs kasey Chambers because Country is not your taste. kasey Chambers takes Lose Yourself by Eminem to a different dimension which is the purpose of ''who did it better''.. at least that's what I thought.
    Eminem ''lose yourself'' vs this video --> Kasey Chambers - Lose Yourself (Eminem Cover) LIVE @ Civic Theatre, Newcastle AU
    If I have to do a MEET THE FAMILY show just to get you to do this, I will, but don't think I'll be grinning .. I might have an attitude only because I have been waiting for two years for this, while I see you do Britney Spears covers!

    • @hanierfamily
      @hanierfamily  วันที่ผ่านมา

      Okay. It's coming, already. 🤣🤣

    • @corybaker9442
      @corybaker9442 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hanierfamily Good! I just guessed that maybe you thought she was not pretty enough (a song of hers, by the way), too hokey, too feral or maybe you didn't like Eminem. It's worth it! That's all I'm saying!

  • @Starburst_Candy
    @Starburst_Candy 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Not for me. It obviously means much to the Aussies though.

  • @MrCharliemcgoo
    @MrCharliemcgoo วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    a true blue Aussie with a sincere, but corny patriotic song about "real Australians" - there are heaps better songs by John Williamson that would be appealing to anyone and everyone == including "Raining on the Tock"

  • @wino5086
    @wino5086 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    At the risk of being labelled un-Australian
    Not a fan.
    A bit hokey...rippa, bewdy, bonza, mate🙄

    • @brettfrench6121
      @brettfrench6121 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      un-Australian

    • @iankearns774
      @iankearns774 วันที่ผ่านมา

      As @brettfrench6121 said, nothing wrong with bewdy, bonza and being a mate. Hokey is not an Australian term but its far from "hokey". Its from his heart so not fake, hokey means fake and describes most of the crap being passed off as music these days.

    • @wino5086
      @wino5086 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@iankearns774
      Hokey doesn’t just mean fake.
      It means corny.
      “Is it a cockatoo”🙄

  • @goatslunch6991
    @goatslunch6991 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Its about shame being forced on average Aussies for just being themselves. You cant be an Aussie anymore becuase it ofends the imigrants.

    • @criticalthinkersrule
      @criticalthinkersrule วันที่ผ่านมา

      That is absolutely not what it's about and does not represent Williamson's view of the world.

    • @iankearns774
      @iankearns774 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@criticalthinkersrule Its exactly what he was saying, he is singing about the fact we have lost that mateship, that attitude to have a go and to help someone out on the street down on their luck.
      Believe it or not there was a time when people helped other people out and didn't want a pat on the back for it or didn't post their "good deed" on Facebook.
      Those same times we didn't criticise someone else for a different opinion we would talk through it as I am doing right now.
      I dont agree with your views but you are entitled to have them, this comment " That is absolutely not what it's about and does not represent Williamson's view of the world" is your belief and interpretation.
      It was written back in 1982, and the world was very different back then and maybe Williamson has changed his views on things to appease a certain sector of society, many have done that to keep their careers but I think you are wrong in what you wrote and I saw John Williamson play live in the 80's and your ascertion is quite wrong for that time.

    • @criticalthinkersrule
      @criticalthinkersrule 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@iankearns774 A search by ChatGPT reveals: John Williamson has explained that his song "True Blue" is about loyalty, honesty, and the Australian spirit. He wrote it as a reflection of what it means to be "fair dinkum" and truly authentic, capturing the essence of Australian values such as mateship, resilience, and staying true to oneself. It's a song that resonates deeply with Australians because of its raw and heartfelt connection to national identity. He has also mentioned that the song isn't just about patriotism; it's about being genuine and true to one's principles, regardless of where you're from. It’s often described as a tribute to integrity and authenticity.
      I do not see anything there about "shame being forced on average Australians" or anything to do with offending immigrants. This is some right-wingers incorrect interpretation (and I know, being a reformed right-winger).

    • @iankearns774
      @iankearns774 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@criticalthinkersrule So you would prefer to believe an AI chatbot than a person who was alive back in 1982 and has seen the bloke play live more than once.
      Well I was a Labor voter for 30 years, so I guess I am a reformed Labor voter as there is no way in hell I would ever vote for the wokearse party it has become since Rudd.