It was in those early days - before he was forcibly removed from his family at the age of 10 - that Carmody's eyes were first opened to music, thanks to a battery wireless radio. Discover more amazing stories by ABC Indigenous. This year's NAIDOC Week theme is For Our Elders. Gather round people, I'll tell you a storyīorn in 1946, Kev Carmody is a Lama Lama and Bundjalung man who grew up in the Darling Downs area of Queensland, where his parents worked on cattle stations. This is the journey of what started off as a casually recorded folk song and has become what Carmody calls "a kind of cultural love song" and a foundational entry in the Australian songbook: From Little Things Big Things Grow. In 2021, singer and rapper Ziggy Ramo climbs the sails of the Sydney Opera House and performs, backlit by the sunrise. In 2003, on the asphalt quadrangle of Zillmere State School in Brisbane, a class of public school kids sing and dance their way across the handball courts. In 1988, around a campfire at Wivenhoe Dam in Queensland, Kev Carmody plucks out some chords while Paul Kelly toys with a lyric he's had in his head. we'll record it'.WARNING: This story contains the images and names of Indigenous people who have died. So, they said, 'If you write another verse. (Jerry Allison of the Crickets) told me to sing the song for Don - actually I had only one verse written - and Don called Phil down, and they worked out a gorgeous harmony part. I never was much for guns, and still am not really into them, but out of 250 men in our unit in basic training, six of us fired expert, and I was one of the six! Anyway, for firing expert, they gave me a three-day pass, and I went straight down to Hollywood, and the Crickets were there, and so were Don and Phil, who were doing some acting classes for movies - they had just signed for Warner Brothers. In an interview he did with Jim Liddane of the International Songwriters Association, Sonny Curtis said about the song: Well, I wrote most of that one Sunday afternoon, while I was doing my basic training in California, just after I went in the army, although I had the guitar riff for a while, and then, Lady Luck stepped in. Originally it was the B-side, then it was changed to the A-side. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. "Walk Right Back" is a 1961 song by Sonny Curtis that was recorded by The Everly Brothers, and went to No.
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