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It has also been called the worst song of all time by GQ [96] and The A.V. Club, and named one of the worst songs of all time in a readers' poll in the New York Post. The group's co-lead singer Grace Slick has called it "the worst song ever" and "awful". [94] [96] "Don't Worry, Be Happy", Bobby McFerrin (1988)
It peaked at No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks. In 2009, a Herald Sun poll ranked "Wasabi" as the seventh-worst Australian song of all time. [ 3 ]
1864–1866 (and 1868). The little data available indicates that this drought period was rather severe in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. This drought also helped fires in the Australia outback at the time. 1877 All states affected by severe drought, with disastrous losses in Queensland.
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary. [1] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years".
In 2018, Australian musician Scott Darlow enlisted the help of Australian musicians to re-record the track with all net proceeds from the sale to go towards to the Buy-a-bale program in support of Australian farmers suffering from the Australian drought. The musicians include Darlow, Sarah McLeod, Adam Brand, Jack Jones and Todd Hunter. [15]
The drought affected most of southern Australia, including its largest cities and largest agricultural region (the Murray–Darling basin). It commenced with low rainfall conditions in late 1996 and through 1997, and worsened through particularly dry years in 2001 and 2002. By 2003 it was recognised as the worst drought on record. [2]
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The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".