The Pushbike Song!

Perchance I ran across, this 1971 bubblegum song, from Aussie band The Mixtures, deep within the dusty vaults of You Tube.

O.K a triceratops bone, is less dated.

Even 37 years later, astute listeners will pick the similar feel to this cheesy tune with that of Mungo Jerry – not surprising, since The Mixtures first hit, was a word-perfect cover of his song ‘In the Summertime’, and the similarities in musical flavours didn’t end there. In a grand irony & in a some-what reciprocal fashion, Mungo went on to cover ‘The Pushbike Song’.

The Pushbike Song went to number one in Australia & New Zealand (two weeks in May 1971 in local charts) and as high as number two in the U.K Charts.

The songs main claim to fame, was it was the first ‘far dinkum home-grown’ international hit from an Aussie band, written by an Australian, produced & recorded in Australia.

In more trivia, the vocalist and one of the songwriters was Peter Williams, who is a Kiwi (bringing into doubt those claims, the song was 100% Australian in origin) and is still floating about in Auckland musical circles.

As hard as it is to believe, the bands drummer (John Creech) toured with Kylie Minogue, only two years ago!

The Mixtures broke-up in 1976, a good thing to!