music byGrahame BondandRory O'Donoghue

As well as writing the music for Fatty Finn, Grahame Bond and Rory O'Donoghue would become familiar through the Aunty Jack Show on the ABC.

Bond was a founder and leading light of the University of Sydney's Architecture Revues from 1964 to 1969, where he met others of like creative mind, including TV sitcom scriptwriter Geoffrey Atherden, Peter Weir and the director of Fatty Finn, Maurice Murphy.

The pair also wrote the music for Peter Weir's short feature Homesdale. As well as starring in Homesdale, Bond can also be seen in the Michael segment of the Commonwealth Film Unit feature film trilogy 3 To Go, also directed by Weir.

Bond and O'Donoghue also wrote the music for that segment of the trilogy.

Bond has a wiki here. O'Donoghue has a short wiki here, and is mentioned in Bond's, and in the wiki on The Aunty Jack Show.

(Below: Grahame Bond in Michael)

(Below: Grahame Bond in Homesdale).

(Below: Grahame Bond in later years)

(Below: Grahame Bond left, with Rory O'Donoghue right, in Aunty Jack pose, and below that Rory O'Donoghue in later years)

An EP was released at the time of the key tunes in the film:

EP (ST) Polygram POL2229 238 1980

Recorded at Leo Recorders

Side A: 1. “Hooray for Fatty Finn” vocals: Rory OʼDonoghue & Fattyʼs Gang2. “Phar Lap” vocals: Rory OʼDonoghue3. “Mean Woman Blues” vocals: Sybil OʼDonoghue (Bond/O'Donoghue, C. Control)

Side B: 1. “Old Slouch Hat” vocals: Massed Voices of the Australian Light Horse2. “Fattyʼs Fair” vocals: Rory OʼDonoghue(Bond/O'Donoghue, C. Control)

Lyrics for the song that runs over the head titles (a musical version of this number goes over the tail credits):

Hip hip … hoorayHip hip … hoorayHip hip … hooray Hip hip … hoorayHooray for Fatty Finn

His name is Hubert FinnHe's really very thinBut everybody down the laneThey call him Fatty Finn

'N Tilly is the girlThe apple of his eyeWho sees that Skeet and Lolly LegsAre always at his side

Headlights who can't fightSkeet is just too smallSeasy is very easy goingLolly Legs is tallThat's all

We are the gangWe're Fatty's gang

Hooray for Fatty Finn

Hooray for Fatty FinnHe's not fatHe's really very thin

Hooray for Fatty Finn … hoorayHooray for Fatty Finn … hoorayEverybody thinks that they goRound with Fatty Finn

Bruiser Murphy leads the gangWho hated Fatty FinnHis band of bullies wanted bloodBut they could never win

I smell a rat, his name is FattyCurse you Fatty Finn

Hooray, hooray, hooray for Fatty FinnHooray for Fatty FinnHooray for Fatty FinnHe's not fatHe's really very thin

Hooray for Fatty Finn … hoorayHooray for Fatty Finn … hoorayHe's not fatHe's really very thin

Algernon Snootle is very richHe lives upon Snob HillHis sister's just a pain in the neckBut he's a bigger dill

I say, I say, hip hip hoorayHooray for Fatty Finn, Hooray for Fatty FinnHe's not fatHe's really very thin

Hooray for Fatty Finn … hoorayHooray for Fatty Finn … hoorayEverybody thinks that they goRound with Fatty Finn

There are a number of songs briefly quoted on the soundtrack, including a couple to do with the the theme of cricket that runs through Fatty Finn's story.

The film quotes, without crediting it, a few lines from a song written by Jack O'Hagan, released in time for broadcast during the 1930 Ashes Test series between England and Australia. Lyrics for Our Don Bradman:

Who is it that all Australia raves about?Who has won our very highest praise?Now is it Amy Johnson, or little Mickey Mouse?

No! it's just a country lad who's bringing down the house.And he's

Refrain:Our Don Bradman - And I ask you is he any good?Our Don Bradman - As a bastman he can sure lay on the wood.For when he goes in to batHe knocks ev'ry record flat,For there isn't any thing he cannot do,Our Don Bradman - Ev'ry Aussie "dips his lid" to you.

Our Don Bradman - Now I ask you is he any good?Our Don Bradman - As a batsman he is certainly "plum pud".Tate and Larwood meet their fate,For it's always "shut the gate"When our boy from Bowral hits four after four.Our Don Bradman - Always manages to top the score.

Woodfull, Grimmett, Ponsford, Kippax and the rest,Proved that they were equal to the best,How gallantly and nobly, we know they've done their share,But there's one tops them all, a real Devil-may-care.And he's

Refrain:Our Don Bradman - And I ask you is he any good?Our Don Bradman - As a bastman he can sure lay on the wood.How that Mister Lion, poor fish,Must just sit and wish and wish,That our Don had never come across the foam,Our Don Bradman - What a welcome waits for you back home.

Our Don Bradman - Now I ask you is he any good?Our Don Bradman - As a batsman he is certainly "plum pud"Tho' those cricketers now gone.Trumper, and Spofforth and so on,Wrote their names forever in the Hall of Fame,Our Don Bradman - Is the greatest ever played the game.

Another brief excerpt, also uncredited, comes from Jack "The Whispering Baritone" Lumsdaine's song Our Eleven, also written in 1930 in support of Don Bradman's team:

A bunch of boys went sailing awayTo blighty across the seaKeeping strong and fit, each one did his bitFighting for victoryYou all know just who I meanIt's the nineteen thirty Aussie team

Our Eleven, they did their bestOur Eleven, to win each testGee! but how those boys can wield the willowSeems as light to them as a feather pillowHow they can bowl, how they can batKnock 'em round and never care for this or thatOur Eleven. They'll be in heaven When they're bringing the Ashes home

The boys would all laugh, when Larwood would "strafe"They played 'em and flayed 'em as well,Way out in the field, they would never yieldTill all the wickets fellDon knocked up a mighty scoreEven when he heard the "Lion's" roar

Our Eleven, they did their bestOur Eleven, to win each testGee! but how Don Bradman wields the willowSeems as light to Woodfull as a feather pillowGrimmett can Bowl, Kippax can batOldfield puts his hand up as he says "Howzat?"Our Eleven. They'll be in heaven When they're bringing the Ashes home.