Slim Dusty record sales pass seven million
DATELINE: 8th March, 2006
As a result of large pre-sales for the new Slim Dusty Live DVD and CD simultaneous release, EMI Music have announced that total sales of Slim Dusty recordings have now passed the seven million mark.
This is understood to be the most record sales for any artist in Australia.
 

And "this makes the achievement even more special for EMI Australia as we have been Slim’s record label for his entire 60 plus year career," said the company's Australian Managing Director John O’Donnell.
 
Slim, who is still one of the biggest current selling artists in the nation some two and a half years after his death in 2003, launched his career in 1942 at age 15 when, as Nulla Nulla farm boy David Gordon Kirkpatrick, he decided to change his name.
 
He dreamed of becoming a star and, with his father, he headed to Sydney for an audition with the Columbia Graphophone Company.
He didn’t get a recording deal the first time round, but he was allowed to record two of his songs in the famous Columbia Studios at Homebush.
With his father’s help, he scraped together the 25 pounds needed to purchase 25 copies of these custom pressings of his recordings.
Back on the farm with his first precious 78rpm recordings, Slim decided to send his records to various radio stations around the country and asked the radio stations to forward the discs on to another radio station when they had finished playing them.
What followed was an exceptionally successful career full of Australian music and entertainment industry landmarks; a career which was even more amazing than David Gordon Kirkpatrick, who became Slim Dusty, dreamed of more than 60 years ago.

"Over his long career, the real extent of Slim Dusty’s massive popularity was often underestimated and only now, with the official announcement that his record sales have passed seven million units, do people look beyond the iconic Aussie number one hits like The Pub With No Beer and Duncan and his 100 plus album releases to understand the meaning of his close connection with all Australians," said EMI.

"And so, the remarkable Slim Dusty legend not only continues… but continues to grow."
Further information about the Slim Dusty Centre and its aims is available from the Foundation’s General Manager, Kathryn Yarnold at 02 6562 6533 or slimdustycentre@midcoast.com.au or our website www.slimdustycentre.com.au
Further information:
The Slim Dusty Foundation  

Kathryn Yarnold
General Manager
18 Kemp Street, West Kempsey.
PO Box 70, Kempsey NSW 2440
Phone: 02 6562 6533
Fax: 02 6562 1849
Email: slimdustycentre@midcoast.com.au
Website: www.slimdustycentre.com.au

 
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