This Is the Place for a Song

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This Is the Place for a Song
Compilation album by
Various Artists
ReleasedMay 2005 (2005-05)
Genre Pop
Length60:06
Label The Herald and Weekly Times

This Is the Place for a Song or This Is the Place for a Song: A Melbourne Celebration of World Music is a compilation album by various Australian artists, released in May 2005. [1] It consists of 14 cover versions of Melbourne-associated tracks in different styles, [2] with some in different languages. [3] The album was organised by Paul Stewart and Gil Santos (from the Dili Allstars) [4] and it was created to raise awareness of Melbourne's Immigration Museum and was sponsored by the Victorian Multicultural Commission with a grant of $10,000. [5] [6] At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005 it received a nomination for Best World Music Album. [7]

Track listing

This Is the Place for a Song: A Melbourne Celebration of World Music
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
1."All Torn Down" (Frank Yamma) Chris Cheney, Travis Demsey The Living End  
2."I Should Be So Lucky" (Vardos) Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, Pete Waterman Kylie Minogue  
3."Cool World" (Dili Allstars) Ross Wilson Mondo Rock  
4."The Weeping Song" (Khalil Gudaz, Fazila Hijeb, Ramen Nawa) Nick Cave Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds  
5."From Little Things Big Things Grow" (Kavisha Mazzella) Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly Paul Kelly & the Messengers 
6."Beautiful People" (Mach Pelican) James Reyne, Mark Hudson Australian Crawl  
7."Age of Reason" (CDB) Todd Hunter, Johanna Pigott John Farnham  
8."The Carnival Is Over" (Inka Marka) Tom Springfield (lyrics) / traditional Russian (music) The Seekers  
9."Horror Movie" (Revolucion Street)Greg Macainsh Skyhooks  
10."Wings of an Eagle" (Neil Nghi Ta, Le Nghiem Tran, Dung Nguyen) Russell Morris Russell Morris 
11."Who Can It Be Now?" (Musiki Manjaro) Colin Hay Men at Work  
12."Throw Your Arms Around Me" (Greg Ulfan, Polash Larsen)John Archer, Geoffrey Crosby, Douglas Falconer, Jack Howard, Robert Miles, Mark Seymour, Michael Waters Hunters & Collectors  
13."Don't Fall in Love" (Takouni)Ian Davis, Kenneth Firth The Ferrets  
14."Look What You've Done" (The Five Venoms) Nic Cester Jet  

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References

  1. Herald and Weekly Times (2005), This is the place for a song: a Melbourne celebration of world music, Herald & Weekly Times, retrieved 2 December 2018
  2. Steward, Paul (22 May 2005), "Music brings us together", Sunday Herald Sun
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  4. Donovan, Patrick (20 May 2005), "Shelter in a foreign Cave", The Age
  5. "Culture covered", Sunday Telegraph, 29 May 2005
  6. "Multicultural Festivals and Grants (Appendix 1E)" (PDF). Annual Report 2005-06. Victorian Multicultural Commission. p. 6. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
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