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Composer Paul Healy

(cast)

You Am I The Cadillacs Dave Scotland Neil Pepper Russell Hopkinson Keith Longman Tony Hicks

Music Score Recorded at Milk Bar Supersonic

Music Score Produced and Mixed at Supersonic

Assistant to Composer Amanda Brown

Assistant Music Editor Scott Horscroft

Recording Engineers Trent Williamson

Musicians

Drums David Kleynjas

Bass Samuel Dixon

Flute Tony Buchen

Wurlitzer Alan Goodman Antony Partos Harmonica/Jaw Harp Trent Williamson

Guitar Trent Williamson Paul Healy

Orchestra Pro Musica

Orchestra Contractor Coralie Hartl

Concertmaster Phillip Hartl

Brass and Strings orchestrated and conducted by George Brodbeck

Music Supervisor Mana Music Chris Gough Julie Spinks

Soundtrack

Recording Engineer Chris Dickie

Mixing Engineer David Nicholas

Additional Engineers Greg Clarke and Paul McKercher

Assisted by Jim Maroudas and Shae Mete

Mastered by Don Bartley Soundtrack Recorded at Sing Sing Studios

Additional Recording at Electric Mountain Studio and Studios 301

Mixed at The Basement Studios Sydney

Mastered at Studios 301

And I Heard The Fire Sing Composed by R. Taylor Published by Festival Music Publishing Performed by Licensed courtesy of Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Composed by Young/Young/Scott Published by J Albert & Son Pty Ltd Performed by AC/DC Licensed courtesy of

Sinner Man Composed by // / Published by Chappell Music Ltd (PRS) All rights administered by Chappell & Co (ASCAP) Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd Performed by Licensed courtesy of EMI Music Australia

Spinning Wheel Composed by David Clayton-Thomas Published by Bay Music/EMI Blackwood Music Inc All rights administered by EMI Songs Australia Pty Ltd Performed by Barry Crocker Licensed courtesy of Nine Network Australia Boom Sha La La Lo Composed by Bruce Woodley and Hans Sven Poulsen Published by Carlin Music Corp and Swansong Music Ltd Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd/Fable Music Pty Ltd (Australia) Performed by Licensed courtesy the Rajon Music Group Pty Ltd

Bom Bom Composed by Wilson/Hannaford Published by Mushroom Music Publishing (P) 1971 Wizard Records Performed by Daddy Cool Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

Ever Lovin' Man Composed by Lynch/Lovett/Anderson/ Humphries/Clyne Published by Mushroom Music Publishing Performed by The Loved Ones Licensed courtesy of PolyGram Records Licensed from Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd

Washboard Rock 'n' Roll Composed by M. Schneider & R. Schneider Published by Origin Music/Festival Music Publishing Performed by Lisa Miller and Tim Rogers Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

Sometimes I Just Don't Know Written by Tim Rogers Published by Festival Music Publishing Performed by with Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

Just As Long As We're Together Composed by R. Wilson Published by Mushroom Music Publishing (P) 1971 Wizard Records Performed by Daddy Cool Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd My City of Sydney Composed by Leonetti/Troupe Published by Chrysalis Music Performed by Tommy Leonetti Licensed courtesy of Cinton Music

Wild About You Composed by Andy Anderson Copyright Control Performed by Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

Calendar Eyes Composed by Tim Rogers Published by Festival Music Publishing Performed by You Am I Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

Because I Love You Composed by Doug Ford and Published by EMI Music Publishing Australia Performed by The Cadillacs

No Good Without You Composed by Tim Rogers Published by Festival Music Publishing Performed by and Bruce Kaynes Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd/ Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd

Draggin' Yer Bones Composed by Tim Rogers Published by Festival Music Publishers Performed by You Am I Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

Trouble Composed by Tim Rogers Published by Festival Music Publishing Performed by You Am I with Bernard Fanning Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd/ Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd Losin' My Tonight Composed by Slim Dusty Published by EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd Performed by Lisa Miller and Tim Rogers Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd

I'll Be Gone Composed by Mike Rudd Published by Cellar Music Co Pty Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd Performed by Palladium Licensed courtesy of Warner Music Australia Pty Ltd

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Composed by Young/Young/Scott Published by J Albert & Son Pty Ltd Performed by You Am I with Licensed courtesy of BMG Australia Ltd/ Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd

Soundtrack available through BMG BMG Australia Limited - logo

Lyrics:

There are two songs over the tail credits.

The first is Mike Rudd’s domestic hit, I’ll Be Gone, performed by Palladium.

The film ends with Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown), Sharon Ryan () and Sal Cassela (Felix Williamson) in a small plane flying back to Sydney. Barry leaves Sal to move up to join Sharon in the front.

Sharon cheerfully asks Barry “So, what you got on today, darl?” Barry replies, “Oh you know, the usual, bibs and bobs, all over the shop.”

(At this point the instrumental introduction to the song is sliding in under the dialogue).

Barry: “Hey Sal … you wouldn’t be dead for quids, eh?”

Barry grabs hold of Sharon’s hand, and as we cut to outside, to see the plane flying over the empty red landscape, the song and end credits begin, with the plane flying off towards the .

Lyrics as heard in the film (the first verse of the original that’s usually heard is cut):

(Someday I'll have money Money isn't easy to come by By the time it comes by I'll be gone I'll sing my song and I'll be gone - cut from film)

Someday I'll have lovin’ Lovin’ isn't easy come by By the time it comes by, I'll be gone I'll sing my song and I'll be gone

Whoooh

Living a life of luxury Doesn't seem to be for me Be for me Moving around comes naturally Moving around and feelin’ free That's for me …

(The repeat of the opening verse is also cut. Instead we’re with Darcy (Sam Worthington), Margaret (Kestie Morassi) and Tony Testano (John Goodman) walking through the desolate landscape. Money flutters around them. Margaret pauses to pick up a note she sees caught in a low bush.

Tony and Darcy look at the note, and then a smiling Darcy and Margaret rush back to check the source of the money.

Tony, in a quizzical voice: “Jimmy’s two mill! ” As he moves off, the image does a quick fade to black. We hear Tony over black, laughing, as he says “Good for Jimmy”, laughing again.

A new song starts up, as now the credits roll up over black.

This is Tex Perkins and You Am I doing the AC/DC classic Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, which the film clearly used as its inspiration for its main title.

Hey … Hey ...

Well … if you're havin' trouble with your high school head He's givin' you the blues You want to graduate but not in his bed Here's what you got to do Pick up the phone I'm always home Call me any time Just ring 362 4360 I lead a life of crime Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap

You got trouble in your life of love You got a broken heart He's double dealin' with your best friend That's when the teardrops start, fella Pick up the phone I'm here alone Or make a social call Come right in Forget about him We'll have ourselves a ball

Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap (Guitar driven interlude)

If you … you got a lady and you want her gone But you ain't got the guts She keeps naggin' at you night and day Enough to drive ya nuts Pick up the phone Leave her alone It's time you made a stand For a fee I'm happy to be Your back door man Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds (with chorus) done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap

(In the background, as the hook plays out, we hear a voice reciting)

Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT

(Song) Done dirt cheap

(Again spoken)

Neckties, contracts, high voltage

(Song) Dirty deeds Done dirt cheap

Dirty deeds Done dirt cheap

Dirty deeds Done dirt cheap

Dirty deeds … (wailing) Waaarrgh!!

The song then does a sub-Hendrix warped, feedback style guitar solo, which carries on to the end, and the main title whirling, as if a poker machine, to an electronic sound. Cut to black.

CDs:

CDs of the soundtrack were released:

The CD was also released with a different colour scheme:

A You Am I/Tex Perkins single was also released for promotional purposes:

CD rooArt 743219 346421 2002 Soundtrack produced by Tim Rogers

01: DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP, You Am I with Tex Perkins 02: TITLES SEQUENCE, Paul Healy 03: AND I HEARD THE FIRE SING, Grinspoon 04: TROUBLE, You Am I with Bernard Fanning 05: NEW FLAT, Paul Healy 06: I'LL BE GONE, Palladium 07: SOMETIMES I JUST DON'T KNOW, You Am I with Billy Thorpe 08: WILD ABOUT YOU, Dallas Crane 09: NO GOOD WITHOUT YOU, Bernard Fanning and Bruce Haymes 10: MAKING PIZZA, Paul Healy 11: DRAGGIN' YER BONES, You Am I 12: EVERLOVIN' MAN, The Loved Ones 13: MADE MY BED, GONNA LIE IN IT, You Am I with 14: WASHBOARD ROCK'N'ROLL, Lisa Miller, Jody Bell and Tim Rogers 15: BLACK AND BLUE, Powder Monkeys 16: CALENDAR EYES, You Am I 17: BOM BOM,, Daddy Cool 18: LOSIN' MY BLUES TONIGHT, Tim Rogers and Lisa Miller 19: PLANE LEAVES, Paul Healy

CD Promotion and You Am I:

The producers pushed the CD hard, with You Am I boasting of its connection to the film on its website, saved to Trove here:

The Tim Rogers produced Dirty Deeds soundtrack will be released July 1. The soundtrack to the new David Caesar (Idiot Box, Mullet) film will feature 2 brand new You Am I tracks: Draggin’ Yer Bones and Calendar Eyes as well as 3 newly penned Tim Rogers tunes with Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) and Billy Thorpeon vocals and You Am I providing the music.

The remainder of the album is made up of classic Australian Covers from late 60s (the same era as the films setting). Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon) sings on theEasybeats classic Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It and Tex Perkins rips through theAC/DC cover of the title track (likely to be the first single) with You Am I again providing the music.

Tim Rogers teams up with Lisa Miller on Losin’ My Blues Tonight, and Jody Bellhelps them out on Washboard Rock & Roll. Other Acts to feature on the soundtrack include Grinspoon, Palladium, Dallas Crane, Powder Monkeys, Daddy Cool andThe Loved Ones.

You Am I even feature in the film as the entertainment in a psychedelic 60s nightclub!

The same site, Trove here, also featured a promotional piece which it claimed had been published in the Sunday Telegraph on 26th May 2002:

Tim Rogers, frontman for the legendary You Am I, has produced the soundtrack to the new Australian film Dirty Deeds. The soundtrack features a combination of Rogers' compositions and covers of late-60s Australian rock classics by acts such as Bernard Fanning, Tex Perkins, Grinspoon and the Powder Monkeys. Squinting into the early morning sun after drinking with his mother until 3am the night before, a jovial Rogers told me about the process of recording the new album: "You can get lost and self-indulgent when you're making your own records. But, as someone who needs some direction, this is really good because it's like you're an employee of the film." With so much undue praise being heaped upon bands like and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, does Rogers feel cheated that You Am I have been essentially ignored because they were ahead of their time? "Yeah, possibly. But it's not an angry thing. If we had broken a couple of years and became massive, it would have been terrible. "When you become famous, you stop being the observer and become the observed. In some ways, playing for a hundred people in a room in some distant country, and they all love you, is a greater feeling than being massively famous." The Dirty Deeds soundtrack is out on July 1, while the new You Am I album Deliverance, is slated for August 26. Davey Lane of You Am I described the band’s appearance in the film in an interview with Tabula Rasa, now archived at Trove here:

Damien Dupuis, Tabula Rasa: I also understand that the new David Caesar Film, Dirty Deeds, offered the band the opportunity to do some acting, amongst other things. How did you find that experience?

Davey Lane: Yeah, no, it was all right! We kind of rolled up on the day and we were pretty much extras. We were a band playing in a bar room scene, so I don't know, we just kind of rolled up there in the morning and just waited until they were ready. We had a trailer to ourselves and we just got drunk and hung out, really. Just pretended to play a song. It wasn't too much, it wasn't a stretch for any of us cerebrally, I think.

CD Review:

Brad Green reviewed the main CD release on 18th July 2002 for Urban Cinefile, available here, saved to WM here:

Rolf Harris had the right idea. You can’t successfully out-punch the old hard rockers. Wabble board, sing-a-long kitsch and all, his interpretations of and AC/DC worked for what they were. Even if they were something the world could have done without. Stairways to Heaven and Highways To Hell can be repaved with saccharine instead of heavy metal, but you simply can’t grind any more grime into Dirty Deeds.

You Am I frontman Tim Rogers is at the production helm of this homage to late-sixties, guitar-heavy rock; and although he comes unstuck trying to wind more grunt into the AC/DC classic, for the most part the right spirit is captured, the right artists perform the right songs and just the right accompaniment is added by Paul Healy’s electronic score.

The latter is a particularly pleasant surprise. Up-tempo cues full of ironic verve and incidental cues that reside in that amorphous region of ambience, yet utterly fail to bore, make for some of the most effervescent screen music I’ve heard this year. For the feature cues there’s a hint of Shaft in the Wah guitars, a hint of Bond in the brass blasts and a hint of Healy’s own inventiveness and self-awareness in the funky rhythms that glue it together. None of it is serious, but it’s nearly all successful.

Which can’t be said for Tex Perkin’s turn at the title track. With the overdrive on You Am I’s guitars turned up to melting point, and Perkins roaring aimlessly into his microphone (not that it sounds like he needed one) a thunderingly good, ballsy rock number is transformed into an aimless rumble of noise.

On the upside, Bernard Fanning and Billy Thorpe belt out sterling performances replete with both testosterone and class; while You Am I provide solid support as backing band. Rogers adds a couple of light and friendly rock ‘n’ roll numbers of his own, and overall there’s more than enough good work here to make for a solid compilation. Add Paul Healy’s compositions and you not only have a superior soundtrack, but one which most definitely should not be judged by its title cover.

Composer Paul Healy:

Paul Healy had previously worked with David Caesar on the feature film Mullet.

Healy’s Mullett bio was available at Porchlight Films here (leads to WM preserved page): Composer Healy had his own website here, with these biographical details:

(Below: composer Paul Healy, in the first colour photo in the DVD extras for Mullet and in the final colour photo with Richard Tognetti)

DVD Extras:

Composer Paul Healey is nowhere to be seen in the ‘making of’ the soundtrack on the DVD extras. Instead the emphasis is on You Am I, shown performing in the film, and on Tim Rogers in conversation with writer- director David Caesar. Tex Perkins also gets a few lines about the song he sings: