You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine was a live EP by Australian pub rock

Pub rock (Australia)

Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music today....

 band Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel is a rock band that originated in Adelaide, Australia. It is one of the most acclaimed Australian rock bands of all time, with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s and huge sales that continue to this day, although its success and acclaim was almost completely restricted to...

, recorded at the Regent Theatre in Sydney

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 in 1977, and released in November 1978. After a long period of unavailability, the EP was re-released as a bonus disc with the second pressing of the 1991 compilation album Chisel

Chisel (album)

Chisel is the 1991 compilation album by Australian pub rockers Cold Chisel.It features a selection of their best songs from previous albums, including live versions of the tracks "Merry-Go-Round", "Star Hotel" and "Goodbye ". The track "Misfits" was a previously unreleased song and was removed from...

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The title is a parody of the song You're Sixteen

You're Sixteen

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 by the Sherman Brothers

Sherman Brothers

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, which was popularized by Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

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. Barnes later said, "At this stage we were listening to Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

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 and somebody suggested we call the EP 'You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful and You're Mine' after the Jerry Lee Lewis song. I thought because Jerry Lee married his 13-year-old cousin...." (Note 'You're Sixteen' was not, however, by Lewis).

The front and back cover of the album feature some female nudity, courtesy of a flatmate of Barnes' then girlfriend. Barnes describes it as, "the best photo shoot we ever did." Photographer Greg Noakes said, "the band said they knew of a great toilet for the shoot."

Track listing

All songs by 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,...

 except "Wild Thing" Chip Taylor

Chip Taylor

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1. "One Long Day"
2. "Home And Broken Hearted"
3. "Merry-Go-Round"
4. "Mona And The Preacher"
5. "Wild Thing"

Personnel

• Jim Barnes
  Jimmy Barnes
  James Dixon Swan , better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at...
  
   - vocals
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• 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,...
  
   - organ
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  , piano
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• Ian Moss
  Ian Moss
  Ian Moss is an Australian rock musician, best known as the guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel. In that group's initial ten year career, Moss recorded eight albums, three of which were No. 1 national hits. His solo career began with a No. 1 album and single and five ARIA Awards...
  
   - guitar
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  , lead vocal on One Long Day, backing vocals.
• Steve Prestwich
  Steve Prestwich
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   - drums
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• Phil Small
  Phil Small
  Phillip "Phil" James Small is an Australian bassist from pub rock band Cold Chisel. He has written songs for Cold Chisel including, "My Baby" for the 1980 album East, "Notion For You" off the Teenage Love album and "The Game"....
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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