News that a Supercars race will be held in Newcastle has sparked memories of a famous song.
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Bob Hudson’s 1975 record, titled The Newcastle Song, was a hit.
It was about a young bloke named Norm, who cruises along Hunter Street with his mates in an FJ Holden looking to pick up (perhaps harass is a more fitting description) women.
They come across a “beautiful looking sheila” outside the Parthenon Milk Bar.
The song starts with the lyrics: “Yes, up in Newcastle they have very strange mating habits.
“All the young women of Newcastle walk down the main street, which is called Hunter Street for reasons that will become obvious later on in the song.”
The chorus goes like this: “Don't you ever let a chance go by, oh Lord, don't you ever let a chance go by”.
The song continued: “Anyway there was this mob of blokes driving down Hunter Street in the front seat of the hot FJ, with chrome-plated grease nipples and twin overhead foxtails, and the coolest of them all, who got to sit near the window, was young Norm.
“And they pulled up outside the Parthenon milk bar and standing outside the Parthenon was this beautiful looking sheila.”
Norm ends up getting in a fight with a “nine-foot tall Hell's Angel”.
Here’s the lyrics.