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"Down Under" was ranked as the fourth song on the list. [25] The song was ranked number 96 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 1980s" in October 2006. [26] "Down Under" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2007. [27] "Down Under" was one of the goal songs for Australia during the 2022 FIFA World Cup ...
Land Down Under may refer to: Down Under, a colloquialism used to refer to Australia and New Zealand, or the Pacific island countries collectively "Down Under" (song), a song by Men at Work; Love Me Again (Land Down Under), a Filipino film initially titled Land Down Under
[3] [4] [5] The second single from the album, "Down Under", was released in November and was a reworked version of the B-side to their debut single, "Keypunch Operator", from the previous year. [3] "Down Under" was co-written by Hay and Strykert, [9] and became the group's first number-one hit in December – which stayed at the top for six weeks.
Indeed, the songs stood by themselves with little embellishment save for a bright, melodic, singalong quality". [7] By February the following year both "Down Under" and Business as Usual had reached No. 1 on the respective Official New Zealand Music Charts [15] – the latter was the first Australian album to reach that peak in New Zealand. [7]
Marion Sinclair was a music teacher at Toorak College, a girls' school in Melbourne she had attended as a boarder. In 1920, she began working with the school's Girl Guides company. [2] One Sunday morning in 1932, Sinclair had an inspiration in church and dashed home to write down the words to "Kookaburra".
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Down Under is a colloquialism which refers to Australia. Down Under may also refer to: "Down Under" (song), by Australian rock band Men at Work; Down Under, an album by Bill Cosby; Down Under, a 2000 travelogue about Australia by Bill Bryson; Down Under, a film directed by Harry Southwell
The term Down Under is a colloquialism differently construed to refer to Australia and New Zealand, or the Pacific island countries collectively. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term originally referred solely to Australia and gradually expanded in scope.