Jimmy Little
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Jimmy Little AO is an Australian Aboriginal
musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. He says his music has been influenced by Nat King Cole
and American country music
artist Jim Reeves
.
and uncle of the soprano, writer and composer Deborah Cheetham
– grew up on the Cummeragunja Mission
on the Murray River
in New South Wales. In 1955 he left for Sydney
to pursue his country music where his mellow style earned him the nicknames of the Balladeer, Gentleman Jim, and the Honey Voice.
evangelical feature film Shadow of the Boomerang that same year.
After 17 previous singles, Little scored his biggest hit with "Royal Telephone," which peaked at number one in Sydney and number three in Melbourne (November 1963). The Barry Gibb
-penned "One Road" reached number 19 in Sydney and number 30 in Melbourne in March 1964 and the magazine Everybody's named him Australian Pop Star of the Year. His final hit of the era came with "Baby Blue" which peaked at number eight in Melbourne and number 37 in Sydney (September 1974).
Little then turned to full-time acting, making his theatre debut in Black Cockatoos before appearing in director Wim Wenders
' 1991 film Until the End of the World
. As well as appearing in Tracy Moffatt's The Night Cries and Andrew Schultz
's opera
Black River, his teaching and community work earned him the title of NAIDOC
Aboriginal of the Year in 1989.
In 1992, he performed at the Tamworth
on Parade and Kings of Country roadshows before releasing his 14th album, Yorta Yorta Man, in 1994. That same year, he was inducted into Tamworth's Country Music Roll of Renown
, the highest honor an Australian country music artist can achieve.
Messenger, a collection of contemporary songs reinterpreted through Little's smooth vocals, was released in June 1999 and peaked at number 26 nationally, eventually selling over 20,000 copies. The album featured covers of well-known songs by artists such as Nick Cave
, Ed Kuepper
, and Paul Kelly
.
At the 1999 ARIA Music Awards
Messenger won Best Adult Contemporary Album
and Little was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame
. At the 1999 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Awards – The Deadlys
– he won Best Male Artist of the Year
and Best Single Release of the Year.
, Don Walker
, Bernard Fanning
(from Powderfinger
), Brendan Gallagher (from Karma County
), and Dave Graney
.
In 2002 he won the Golden Gospel Award at the Australian Gospel Music Awards for his lifetime support of Australian spiritual music. In 2003, he was a guest of the Wiggles
on their children's DVD Wiggly Wiggly World. Jimmy also released the album Down the Road for ABC Country in 2004.
In 2004 he released his 34th album, Life's What You Make It, a collection of unique and poignant versions of songs by contemporary writers as diverse as Red Hot Chili Peppers
, U2
, PJ Harvey
, Neil Young
, Brian Wilson
, Elvis Costello
and Bruce Springsteen
.
since 1985 and has been an ambassador for literacy and numeracy for the Department of Education since 2002. He continues this work today.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia
in the Australia Day Honours of 2004. He was named a Living National Treasure
in 2004. Little and the composer Peter Sculthorpe
were awarded an honorary doctorate in music in recognition of "their joint contribution to reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians".
In 2004 Jimmy was diagnosed with kidney failure and after two years of self-administered dialysis he received a life saving kidney transplant. The experience led him to launch the Jimmy Little Foundation to help the many other indigenous Australians who are succumbing to kidney disease. The Foundation works with patients in regional and remote Australia and now the JLF is partnering with the Fred Hollows
Foundation to develop a nutrition and education program for indigenous children to help stem the ever increasing cycle of bad nutrition leading to diabetes that can lead to kidney failure.
Little was awarded the 2010
APRA
Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.
"Royal Telephone" was featured in the SBS
documentary, "Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music
" (2000) and its accompanying CD.
Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...
musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. He says his music has been influenced by Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
and American country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist Jim Reeves
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound...
.
Career
Jimmy Little – a member of the Yorta Yorta peopleYorta Yorta people
The Yorta Yorta people are the Indigenous Australians who traditionally lived around the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in present-day northeast Victoria....
and uncle of the soprano, writer and composer Deborah Cheetham
Deborah Cheetham
Deborah Joy Cheetham is an Australian Aboriginal soprano, actor, composer and playwright.Cheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks old and was raised by a white baptist family. Jimmy Little is her uncle...
– grew up on the Cummeragunja Mission
Cummeragunja Mission
Cummeragunja Mission, or Cummeragunja Station, was an Australian Aboriginal mission established in 1881 on the New South Wales side of the Murray River, on the Victorian border near Barmah. The people were mostly Yorta Yorta....
on the Murray River
Murray River
The Murray River is Australia's longest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria as it...
in New South Wales. In 1955 he left for Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
to pursue his country music where his mellow style earned him the nicknames of the Balladeer, Gentleman Jim, and the Honey Voice.
1956–1999
His first single, "Mysteries of Life"/"Heartbreak Waltz," was released in 1956, but his first hit did not come until 1959 with "Danny Boy," which peaked at number nine in Sydney. It was followed by "El Paso" which reached number 12 in Sydney in February 1960. Little made his acting debut in the Billy GrahamBilly Graham
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States Presidents dating back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...
evangelical feature film Shadow of the Boomerang that same year.
After 17 previous singles, Little scored his biggest hit with "Royal Telephone," which peaked at number one in Sydney and number three in Melbourne (November 1963). The Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE , is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed The Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major...
-penned "One Road" reached number 19 in Sydney and number 30 in Melbourne in March 1964 and the magazine Everybody's named him Australian Pop Star of the Year. His final hit of the era came with "Baby Blue" which peaked at number eight in Melbourne and number 37 in Sydney (September 1974).
Little then turned to full-time acting, making his theatre debut in Black Cockatoos before appearing in director Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
' 1991 film Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda...
. As well as appearing in Tracy Moffatt's The Night Cries and Andrew Schultz
Andrew Schultz
Andrew Schultz is an Australian classical composer. Since 2002 he has lived in New South Wales on the coast south of Sydney. He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award ,...
's opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
Black River, his teaching and community work earned him the title of NAIDOC
NAIDOC
NAIDOC is an awareness committee and the name of an Australian week of observance lasting from the first Sunday in July until the following Sunday....
Aboriginal of the Year in 1989.
In 1992, he performed at the Tamworth
Tamworth, New South Wales
Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth, which contains an estimated population of 47,595 people, is the major regional centre for southern New England and in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. The city...
on Parade and Kings of Country roadshows before releasing his 14th album, Yorta Yorta Man, in 1994. That same year, he was inducted into Tamworth's Country Music Roll of Renown
Tamworth Country Music Festival
The Tamworth Country Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia and is a celebration of Australian country music culture and heritage. The festival lasts for two weeks during late January and during this period the city of Tamworth comes alive, with...
, the highest honor an Australian country music artist can achieve.
Messenger, a collection of contemporary songs reinterpreted through Little's smooth vocals, was released in June 1999 and peaked at number 26 nationally, eventually selling over 20,000 copies. The album featured covers of well-known songs by artists such as Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
, Ed Kuepper
Ed Kuepper
Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...
, and Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (musician)
Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
.
At the 1999 ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...
Messenger won Best Adult Contemporary Album
ARIA Music Awards of 1999
The 13th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 12 October 1999 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre...
and Little was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame
ARIA Hall of Fame
Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association has inducted artists into its ARIA Hall of Fame. While most have been recognised at the annual ARIA Music Awards, in 2005 ARIA sought to create a separate standalone "ARIA Icons: Hall of Fame" event as only one or two acts could be inducted...
. At the 1999 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Awards – The Deadlys
The Deadlys
The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. Vibe Australia hosts the awards, which for have been held at the Sydney Opera House since 2001. The first Deadly awards were held in 1995...
– he won Best Male Artist of the Year
The Deadlys Award winners 1999
-Music:*Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score: Tiddas & Alister Jones: My Island Home*Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music: Coloured Stone*Most Promising New Talent: Rochelle Watson*Male Artist of the Year: Jimmy Little...
and Best Single Release of the Year.
2000–present
Little returned in September 2001 with Resonate, a new album featuring songs written by Paul KellyPaul Kelly (musician)
Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
, Don Walker
Don Walker (musician)
Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
, Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....
(from Powderfinger
Powderfinger
Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....
), Brendan Gallagher (from Karma County
Karma County
Karma County is an Australian music group who formed in 1995. They consist of Drummer Stuart Eadie, who also creates and co-ordinates the band's visual imagery , singer/guitarist Brendan Gallagher, who also produces the music, and bassist Michael Galeazzi.-Melody deal:In early 1999 the band signed...
), and Dave Graney
Dave Graney
David John "Dave" Graney is an Australian rock musician and singer-songwriter from Mount Gambier, South Australia. Since 1979, Graney is generally accompanied by drummer, Clare Moore...
.
In 2002 he won the Golden Gospel Award at the Australian Gospel Music Awards for his lifetime support of Australian spiritual music. In 2003, he was a guest of the Wiggles
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are a children's group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album...
on their children's DVD Wiggly Wiggly World. Jimmy also released the album Down the Road for ABC Country in 2004.
In 2004 he released his 34th album, Life's What You Make It, a collection of unique and poignant versions of songs by contemporary writers as diverse as Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
, U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
, PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.Harvey began her career in...
, Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
, Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
, Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
and Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
.
Outreach and recognition
Jimmy Little has been teaching and mentoring indigenous music students at the Eora Centre in RedfernRedfern, New South Wales
Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. Redfern is 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney...
since 1985 and has been an ambassador for literacy and numeracy for the Department of Education since 2002. He continues this work today.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
in the Australia Day Honours of 2004. He was named a Living National Treasure
Australian Living Treasures
Australian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997....
in 2004. Little and the composer Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
were awarded an honorary doctorate in music in recognition of "their joint contribution to reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians".
In 2004 Jimmy was diagnosed with kidney failure and after two years of self-administered dialysis he received a life saving kidney transplant. The experience led him to launch the Jimmy Little Foundation to help the many other indigenous Australians who are succumbing to kidney disease. The Foundation works with patients in regional and remote Australia and now the JLF is partnering with the Fred Hollows
Fred Hollows
Frederick "Fred" Cossom Hollows, AC was an ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries...
Foundation to develop a nutrition and education program for indigenous children to help stem the ever increasing cycle of bad nutrition leading to diabetes that can lead to kidney failure.
Little was awarded the 2010
APRA Awards of 2010
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2010 are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards...
APRA
Australasian Performing Right Association
The Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...
Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.
"Royal Telephone" was featured in the SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
documentary, "Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music
Buried Country
Buried Country is a highly regarded documentary film, book and soundtrack. Buried Country tells the story of Australian country music in the Aboriginal community, focusing on important musicians to tell the story. The book Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music is written by Clinton...
" (2000) and its accompanying CD.
Discography
- "Mysteries of Life" (1956)
- "Danny Boy" (1959)
- "El Paso" (1960)
- "Royal Telephone" (1963) (sold more than 75,000 copies – Gold Record status 3 times over)
- One Road (1964)
- "New Songs from Jimmy" (1964)
- The Country Sound of Jimmy Little (1969)
- Winterwood (1972)
- "Baby Blue" (1974) top ten hit single
- An Evening with Jimmy Little (1978) (double live album recorded at the Sydney Opera HouseSydney Opera HouseThe Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
) - Yorta Yorta Man (1994)
- The Best of Jimmy Little (13 June 1994)
- Messenger (28 June 1999) alternative and classic Australian rock songs from the 1980s
- "Down Below" (original by The Cruel SeaThe Cruel Sea (band)The Cruel Sea are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney formed in late 1987. Originally an instrumental-only band, they became more popular when fronted by vocalist Tex Perkins in addition to Jim Elliott on drums, Ken Gormly on bass guitar, Dan Rumour on guitar and James Cruickshank on guitar...
) - "Under the Milky WayUnder the Milky Way"Under the Milky Way" is a single by Australian alternative rock band The Church released in February 1988 with their album, Starfish. The song was written by bass guitarist and vocalist Steve Kilbey and his then-girlfriend, Karin Jansson...
" (original by The ChurchThe Church (band)The Church is an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave and the neo-psychedelic sound of the mid 1980s, their music later became more reminiscent of progressive rock, featuring long instrumental jams and complex guitar interplay...
) - "The Way I Made You Feel" (original by Ed KuepperEd KuepperEd Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...
) - "Randwick Bells" (original by Paul KellyPaul Kelly (musician)Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
) - "Quasimodo's DreamQuasimodo's Dream (song)"Quasimodo's Dream" is a song by Australian pop, New Wave band The Reels and was released as the title single off their second album, Quasimodo's Dream in May 1981. The album peaked at No. 27 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart but the single did not reach the Top 50 of the...
" (original by The ReelsThe ReelsThe Reels is an Australian rock/indie pop group which formed in Dubbo, New South Wales in 1976 and initially disbanded in 1991, they eventually reformed in 2007. Their 1981 song, "Quasimodo's Dream", was voted one of the Top 10 Australian songs of all time by a 100-member panel from Australasian...
) - "Into Temptation" (original by Crowded HouseCrowded HouseCrowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
) - "Cattle and CaneCattle and Cane"Cattle and Cane" is a song by the Australian alternative rock band The Go-Betweens, released as the first single from their second album Before Hollywood. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records in February 1983 and reached #4 on the UK Independent Chart. The...
" (original by The Go-BetweensThe Go-BetweensThe Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
) - "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For" The One That I've Been Waiting For?" is second single from the album The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The single, released on May 19, 1997, was pressed on 7" and 12" vinyl, as well as a standard CD single, though the song failed to chart in any of the countries it was released in...
" (original by Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsNick Cave and the Bad SeedsNick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
) - "Black Fella/White Fella (original by Warumpi BandWarumpi BandThe Warumpi Band is an Australian band from the bush, coming from Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia.The band was formed in 1980 by Neil Murray, a Victorian "whitefella" working in the region as a schoolteacher and labourer, George Burarrwanga, from Elcho Island, and local boys Gordon and...
) - "Alone with You" (original by The SunnyboysThe SunnyboysSunnyboys was an Australian post-punk, power pop band formed in Sydney in 1980. Fronted by singer-songwriter, guitarist Jeremy Oxley, the band "breathed some freshness and vitality into the divergent Sydney scene"...
) - "Bring Yourself Home To Me" (original by The Jackson CodeThe Jackson CodeThe Jackson Code are an Australian rock band, formed in Perth in 1989.-Biography:The Jackson Code were formed in 1989, following the breakup of Snarksi's earlier band, Chad's Tree. For the band's debut album, Snarski utilised the services of Amanda Pearson , Barry Turnbull and Mark Dawson...
)- Resonate (October, 2001)
- "Bury Me Deep in LoveBury Me Deep in LoveBury Me Deep In Love is a single released by The Triffids from their album Calenture. It was released in October, 1987 and reached No. 48 on the Australian Singles Charts. The single was produced by Gil Norton and written by David McComb...
" (duet with Kylie MinogueKylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
) (2001) - Passage – 1959/2002 (28 October 2002) Double CD anthology
- Down The Road (September 2003)
- Life's What You Make It (28 May 2004)
- The Definitive Collection: Jimmy Little (9 July 2004)
Other resources
Jimmy Little's Gentle Journey (2003), a 55 minute video written and directed by Sydney-based film-maker Sean Kennedy, and released by Indigo Films.External links
- Jimmy Little Foundation website
- Jimmy Little entry in the Australian Rock DatabaseAustralian Rock DatabaseAustralian Rock Database is a website with a searchable online database that lists details of Australian rock music artists, albums, bands, producers and record labels. It was established in 2000 by Swedish national, Magnus Holmgren, who had developed an interest in Australian music when visiting...
- Jimmy Little and Peter Sculthorpe presented with honorary doctorates in music University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
3 June 2005 on the last day of National Reconciliation Week 2005. - Jimmy Little at the National Film and Sound Archive
- Discography