BRIDGE OF LOVE 1994 - ORIGINAL ARTISTS - COLIN BUCHANAN
Colin Buchanan
Lee Kernaghan and Colin Buchanan together at Garth Porter's Rancom St Studio.
Colin Buchanan's website: http://colinbuchanan.com.au/
1993 saw Colin’s first appearance as presenter on ABC TV’s Play School. “What attracted me to teaching was working, creating and discovering the world with children. I’d always dreamed of being on Play School and there I was, with stalwarts John Hamblin and Benita Collings, walking around the set like chickens singing “Turkey in the Straw! I loved it!” Colin wrote songs and performed on the programme for over 10 years before spending 5 years on Playhouse Disney.
Colin’s multi-media career broadened, so that, by 2000, as well as continuing his country music career he was co-hosting the most syndicated radio programme in the nation, The Toyota Outback Club. On primetime TV, Colin was presenting “Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements” on the 7 network and he became a fixture on the nationally broadcast Golden Guitar Awards, with an unrivalled 10 straight gigs as MC. He can still be heard literally anywhere in the world as long-running host of “Big Country”, the Qantas inflight audio country channel. And as a regular TGIF guest on Richard Glover’s ABC 702 Drive programme, Colin has amassed an impressive collection of impromptu topical songs, slated for long-awaited album release over the next few years.
But it was a casual request by fellow country star Lee Kernaghan in the mid-90’s that would create yet another role for Colin, that of songwriting collaborator. “Until I met that afternoon with Lee to write “She’s My Ute” (a Kernaghan career hit), I thought songwriting was like lightning – you never know when the inspiration would strike. How wrong I was!”
Colin has grown to become Australian country music’s go-to song collaborator, contributing to the award-winning careers of not only Lee, but Troy Cassar Daley, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, Adam Brand, Melinda Schneider, The Bushwackers, Tamara Stewart, Amber Lawrence, Markus Meier and Tania Kernaghan.
Yet what must be Colin’s most off-beat collaboration (with fellow songwriter Greg “Champs” Champion) became his biggest – and most unexpected – hit. The platinum-selling “Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs” became an Australian classic. “Thanks to that record,” laughs Colin, “Kids all over Australia think “Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute” are the real words to Jingle Bells!!”
1993 saw Colin’s first appearance as presenter on ABC TV’s Play School. “What attracted me to teaching was working, creating and discovering the world with children. I’d always dreamed of being on Play School and there I was, with stalwarts John Hamblin and Benita Collings, walking around the set like chickens singing “Turkey in the Straw! I loved it!” Colin wrote songs and performed on the programme for over 10 years before spending 5 years on Playhouse Disney.
Colin’s multi-media career broadened, so that, by 2000, as well as continuing his country music career he was co-hosting the most syndicated radio programme in the nation, The Toyota Outback Club. On primetime TV, Colin was presenting “Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements” on the 7 network and he became a fixture on the nationally broadcast Golden Guitar Awards, with an unrivalled 10 straight gigs as MC. He can still be heard literally anywhere in the world as long-running host of “Big Country”, the Qantas inflight audio country channel. And as a regular TGIF guest on Richard Glover’s ABC 702 Drive programme, Colin has amassed an impressive collection of impromptu topical songs, slated for long-awaited album release over the next few years.
But it was a casual request by fellow country star Lee Kernaghan in the mid-90’s that would create yet another role for Colin, that of songwriting collaborator. “Until I met that afternoon with Lee to write “She’s My Ute” (a Kernaghan career hit), I thought songwriting was like lightning – you never know when the inspiration would strike. How wrong I was!”
Colin has grown to become Australian country music’s go-to song collaborator, contributing to the award-winning careers of not only Lee, but Troy Cassar Daley, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, Adam Brand, Melinda Schneider, The Bushwackers, Tamara Stewart, Amber Lawrence, Markus Meier and Tania Kernaghan.
Yet what must be Colin’s most off-beat collaboration (with fellow songwriter Greg “Champs” Champion) became his biggest – and most unexpected – hit. The platinum-selling “Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs” became an Australian classic. “Thanks to that record,” laughs Colin, “Kids all over Australia think “Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute” are the real words to Jingle Bells!!”
Image of Lee Kernaghan and Colin Buchanan at Rancom St Studios courtesy of ColinBuchanan.com.au.
