Goodbye Blinky Bill

"Goodbye Blinky Bill"
Single by John Williamson
from the album All the Best
Released	March 1986
Studio	Trafalgar Studios, Sydney Australia
Label	GumLeaf Records, Festival Music
Songwriter(s)	John Williamson
Producer(s)	John Williamson
John Williamson singles chronology
"You and My Guitar" (1985) "Goodbye Blinky Bill" (1986) "True Blue" (1986)

"Goodbye Blinky Bill" is a song written and recorded by John Williamson with Bullamakanka and John’s daughters Ami and Georgie. The song was released in a limited edition in March 1986 as the only single from Williamson's 1986 compilation album All the Best.

The song is a conservation song, raising awareness of the decline in numbers of the Australian koala due to deforestation of eucalypts trees; with reference to an anthropomorphic koala named Blinky Bill. A$1 from each sale was donated to the Koala Preservation Society in Port Macquarie.[1][2][3]

The song has been covered by The Wayfarers.[4]

Track listing

7" [1]

Side A: "Goodbye Blinky Bill" (with Ami & Georgie Williamson and Bullamakanka)
Side B: "Koala Koala"

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Edition(s)	Label	Catalogue
Australia	March 1986	7" Vinyl	Limited Edition	GumLeaf Records, Festival Records	K-9977

References

1. Goodbye Blinky Bill (LP). John Williamson and Bullamakanka. GumLeaf Records. 1986.
2. "John Williamson – Goodbye Blinky Bill". Koala Land. 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
3. "Paroles de GOODBYE BLINKY BILL John Williamson". Great Song. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
4. "The Unicorn by The Wayfarers". iTunes Australia. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2018.