| 词条 | It's Just Not Cricket | ||||||||
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| name = It's Just Not Cricket | cover = ItsJustNotCricket-single.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = The Twelfth Man | album = Wired World of Sports | released = 1984 | format = EMI | recorded = 1983-1984 | studio = | venue = | genre = Comedy | length = | label = EMI | writer = Billy Birmingham | producer = Billy Birmingham | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Marvellous! | next_year = 1993 }} "It's Just Not Cricket" is the debut single of The Twelfth Man, a series of comedy productions by skilled impersonator Billy Birmingham. The single topping the charts for three weeks in June 1984, and was the second highest selling single in Australia in 1984 behind "Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen. The full 11-minute version is considered a rarity among fans, due to it being replaced by Bruce 2000 on more recent CD pressings of Wired World of Sports (the 2000 release includes both Bruce 2000 and It's Just Not Cricket). A a shortened version appears on The Very Best of Richie. Background and releaseAt the time of "It’s Just Not Cricket's" release, Birmingham was running his own music marketing consultancy and helping manage fellow comedian Austen Tayshus. In a 2014 interview with Sydney Morning Herald, Birmingham explains “The year before I’d written "Australiana" [also a No. 1 hit] for Austen Tayshus and I wanted to see if I could do something for myself. One day I went out in my backyard with a pencil and paper and wrote what would basically become the six or seven minutes of "It’s Just Not Cricket". Some mates came around that night and asked what I’d been doing all day. I played them the dictaphone recording and they got a good laugh out of it.” adding “I’d actually worked for EMI Music back in 1975 and I had them as a client of my own business, so it was an obvious choice as to where I’d take this thing.” [1] Track listing
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/its-just-not-cricket-when-the-12th-man-went-no-1-20140623-zsiep.html|title=It's Just Not Cricket: when The 12th Man went No. 1|publisher= Sydney Morning Herald|date=23 June 2014|accessdate=21 December 2017}} {{The Twelfth Man}}{{1980s-single-stub}}2. ^{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|page=315|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. 3. ^{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|page=436|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} 5 : 1984 singles|Debut singles|Number-one singles in Australia|1984 songs|EMI Records singles |
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