"Goodbye Blinky Bill"
Single by John Williamson
from the album All the Best
ReleasedMarch 1986
StudioTrafalgar Studios, Sydney Australia
LabelGumLeaf Records, Festival Music
Songwriter(s)John Williamson
Producer(s)John Williamson
John Williamson singles chronology
"You and My Guitar"
(1985) 		"Goodbye Blinky Bill"
(1986) 		"True Blue"
(1986)

"Goodbye Blinky Bill" is a song written and recorded by John Williamson with Bullamakanka and John’s daughters Ami and Georgie. The song was released in a limited edition in March 1986 as the only single from Williamson's 1986 compilation album All the Best.

The song is a conservation song, raising awareness of the decline in numbers of the Australian koala due to deforestation of eucalypts trees; with reference to an anthropomorphic koala named Blinky Bill. A$1 from each sale was donated to the Koala Preservation Society in Port Macquarie.[1][2][3]

The song has been covered by The Wayfarers.[4]

Track listing

7" [1]

Side A: "Goodbye Blinky Bill" (with Ami & Georgie Williamson and Bullamakanka)
Side B: "Koala Koala"

Release history

Region Date Format Edition(s) Label Catalogue
Australia March 1986
Limited Edition GumLeaf Records, Festival Records K-9977

References

  1. ^ a b Goodbye Blinky Bill (LP). John Williamson and Bullamakanka. GumLeaf Records. 1986.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ "John Williamson – Goodbye Blinky Bill". Koala Land. 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Paroles de GOODBYE BLINKY BILL John Williamson". Great Song. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  4. ^ "The Unicorn by The Wayfarers". iTunes Australia. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
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