Girls in our Town
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| name = Girls in Our Town
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| artist = Margret Roadknight
| album = Margret Roadknight
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| B-side = Captain Jack
| written = 1974
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| released = {{start date|df=y|1976|1|}}
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| genre = Country
| length = {{duration|m=2|s=42}}
| label = The Ritz
| writer = Bob Hudson
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| lyricist =
| producer = {{flatlist|
- Simon Heath
- Wahanui "Wyn" Wynyard
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| next_title = Love Tastes Like Strawberries
| next_year = 1976
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"Girls in Our Town" is a song about the life of young women in Newcastle, Australia, written by Bob Hudson. He released it on his live album, The Newcastle Song (see the title track, "The Newcastle Song") in 1974.
In 1976, country music artist, Margret Roadknight covered the song and it reached the top 40 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. It also appeared on her third album, Margret Roadknight, in October of that year.
According to Rachel Lucas of Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Open the track, "painted a cruel trajectory for teenage girls living in country towns; teenage school drop outs, lonely cashiers and factory workers, with nothing to keep them entertained but vanity and promiscuity." It was subsequently performed by Judy Small.
From October 1993 RoadKnight was a member of an a cappella quartet, Girls in Your Town, with Jarnie Birmingham, Mara Kiek, and Moya Simpson.
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- {{Cite encyclopedia | last = McFarlane | first = Ian | authorlink = Ian McFarlane | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop | title = Whammo Homepage | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040405231007/http://www.whammo.com.au/index.asp | url = http://www.whammo.com.au/index.asp | archive-date = 5 April 2004 | access-date = 5 December 2017 | year = 1999 | publisher = Allen & Unwin | location = St Leonards, NSW | isbn = 1-86508-072-1 | url-status = dead }} Note: Archived [on-line] copy has limited functionality.
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{{Cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 | last1 = Kent | first1 = David | authorlink1 = David Kent (historian) | publisher = Australian Chart Book Ltd | location = St Ives, NSW | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6 }} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
{{cite web | url = https://open.abc.net.au/explore/47455 | title = Girls in our Town | last = Lucas | first = Rachel | work = Open | publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) | date = 30 April 2013 | access-date = 5 December 2017 }}
{{Citation | author1 = RoadKnight, Margret | title = Margret RoadKnight | date = 1976 | publisher = Infinity | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11793159 | access-date = 26 June 2016 | via = National Library of Australia }}
{{cite news | title = Margret Packs Jazz & Blues Punch | work = The Age | publisher = Fairfax Media | date = 4 November 1976 | page = 44 }}
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