Kylie gets heritage listed

Kylie gets heritage listed

A Kylie Minogue track has made a list of 10 new sounds to be added to Australia’s audio heritage collection.

Last night, Arts Minister Simon Crean announced Minogue’s ’80s hit I Should Be So Lucky, as well as Skyhooks classic Living in the ’70s, an ABC news story about Cyclone Tracy, a Melbourne Cup call and the first recording of indigenous music and song in 1898 were among the audio chosen.

All 10 sounds were added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s 2011 Sounds of Australia registry yesterday.

“The 2011 sounds are diverse, ranging from the maiden parliamentary speeches of the first two women elected to the Australian parliament, Dame Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney, to an inspiring call of the race that stops our nation – the 1952 Melbourne Cup,” Crean said.

“The Sounds of Australia registry celebrates the unique and diverse recorded sound culture and history of Australia.”

The collection was launched in 2007 with a foundation list of 10 sounds, and every year the public is invited to nominate recordings to be added.

I Should Be So Lucky was released in December 1987 and was the second single released from Minogue’s debut album Kylie. It reached the top ten on the majority of the charts it entered, and number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. Until the release of Can’t Get You Outta My Head it was Minogue’s most commercially successful single, selling more than 1 million copies in the UK alone and going on to be the highest selling homegrown single in Australia that year.

Minogue took to Twitter to announce her excitement at having the song chosen, as well as to thank the song’s producers.

“What an honour for myself, Stock, Aitken and Waterman!” she tweeted.


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