Australian
Country Music
Foundation

Building Australia's
Country Music
Hall of Fame

Formed to collect, preserve and display Australia's country music heritage.

To promote knowledge of and interest in the history and heritage of Australian country and traditional music.

Custodians of the Country Music Roll of Renown and the Country Music Hands of Fame.


Australasian
Country Music
Roll of Renown

GORDON PARSONS
Inducted January 1982

"The Old GP" possessed all the country music credentials. A bushland raising, strong physique, excellent voice and yodel, and a love for the bush. Gordon Parsons was born 1926 and raised in rugged hill country near Bellingen NSW. Following success on Australia's Amateur Hour, Gordon recorded for EMI in 1946, the session including the classics Back To Those Rolling Plains and Where The Bellinger River Flows. He toured with a succession of circus and variety shows, and in the 1980s recorded for Selection Records. He is best known for writing the Slim Dusty hit A Pub With No Beer. Gordon Parsons­"The Yodelling Bushman"-died in 1990.


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