Clairsy's Tragic Music Box -1988: The Young Talent Team Had A Boardgame!

Clairsy’s Tragic Music Box took us back to 1988.  A year of Australia's Bicentenary celebrations, Atari gaming consoles and MagnaDoodles, 1988 was the year Channel 10 went to air in Perth, Murray Street was not yet a mall and petrol cost just 60 cents a litre for petrol. Oh.. and can you remember how many gold medals Australian won at the Seoul Olympics? Hint – not many.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Delving deep into the malarchives of Perth music history, Crazies,
Tragic Music Box.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
The whack a Whacker. The year, as I mentioned, was
nineteen eighty eight. Hey, I'll complain to the youtro again.
If you're like I wanted to be by Ringtite, all right,
we can organize that. We'll organize it.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've also organized something else for you because it was
nineteen eighty eight and it was the year of Australia's
bi centennial celebrations and this is for you.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Celebration, celebration of the nation.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Just make it great in eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
History.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, it was pretty bad. More you're clapping along.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
And when I saw the video of that song, which
is Rick Price before he was Rick Prized, before he's famous.
And the girl Karen, Karen Minchell apparently she was in Euphoria,
the dance band, but this is before they became famous.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
When they took them out of it on the newsreaders,
So funny was going to die and you in the crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
There was Bill Peach, and there was John John Yucan
was there and Paul Cron and oh god, that's funny.
You wouldn't do it now, you wouldn't do the celebration
of a nation thing, but there's a lot of noise
in color for the Bison Tenna. It was big to
the toy shop in eighty eight. The Atari twenty six
hundred console was the hot item for late eighties gamers.

(01:30):
Stick the game way, Yeah, you stick the game cartridge
in and you play, and you could play pac Man Combat,
Space Invaders and a game of Spaces and Demon Attack
was a big one as well.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I love Space. I'll find you a cartridge. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
It moved on from Tennis, hadn't it. The party Pink
Barbie was huge. Magna Doodle, which sounds odd, was the fresh,
the sorry, the free mess magnetic game of art. You know,
like they could get the drawing and stuff like that
and then you just get the bit of plasting and
it was the.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Board was clear and that when we're doing pol John Hat, Yeah,
we could have many, many times. And Young Doodle to
draw people's labradod yeah exactly, yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Nice And the Young Talent team from Young Talent Time
had a board game right, including a cassette. Yeah, and
it was one of the biggest sellers of early eight
had a cassette pre recorded by Johnny Young and the
Young Talent Time kids and I had to play this
for you.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Least close and nothing. Yeah, that's yeah, game over. Thanks
John Legend. You don't have Johnny Bowles. Did it even happen?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Johnny Bowles Little Tiny Tina Arena. Lots of change happened
in Perth in nineteen eighty eight. It was the year
that Channel ten went to air here. Yes, we're having
three commercial channels. The upgrade to Forest Place. Another upgrade
in the city was completed. Murray Street wasn't yet a mall,
but you could park your car at the Alexander Library
building in Northbridge and take the new what they called
the footpath freeway over the rooftops and Wellington Street to

(03:01):
the city to go shopping over the rooftops, over the rooftops.
That's how the footpath freeway pretty flashing. A year not
so flash, prisoners rioted at freeo j l, setting it
on fire and taking five waters hostage.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I knew one of those waters, Oh did you? Yeah?
Hard to believe that Free Jail was opened until nineteen
ninety one. Hard to believe.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Biz. Nineteen eighty eight saw the Olympic Games held in Sea.
We're talking sool South Korea, the Ausies only one where
only won three gold medals that year. Duncan Armstrong have
a long way, haven't we? How many are we going there?
Duncan Armstrong, which is a great name for a swimmer,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Armstrong?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
He won the two hundred free style, the four hundred
meter hurdler. Debbie flint Off King, Yes, famous name of
Australian athletics and the hockey ruse. Now our women, Now
there's a team that deserves a statue. Let's be honest.
They beat South Korea, the host nation, to nil and
that started a twelve year run that included three gold
medals for our championship world. Weren't they incredible?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Every gold medal we won back in those days was
like just thirty central. Now people get angry if the
swimmers don't win. Me go yeah, well yeah, we had
a couple of Olympics. London was like that.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
In nineteen eighty eight we moaned about paying sixty cents
a leader for petrol after their recent prost roses.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Isn't that funny?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
And if you're busy working nine to five, you'd have
to pick up the West Australian or the Daily News
newspapers and look for the petrol rosters so you could
fill up and then maybe drive miles from home to
the airport. Yeah, hard to believe, Lisa. In nineteen eighty eight,
we hadn't yet met No, Nelly. I knew of you
because you worked You and I worked for the same network. Yes, right,

(04:33):
So I was at SAFM and Adelaide and you're at
the Eagle, the newly launched station here at home. Yes,
and I also had my where I'm heading home to
person whereas the brunette radar was switched on. Already sounds sleazy,
but it wasn't. We became mates in music. The biggest
albums in Australia were in excess as Kick Yep, Dirty
Dancing Soundtrack, Freight Train Hart from Jimmy Barnes. After we

(04:54):
moved on to chiswel Rick Cassley's Whenever You Need Somebody
was a big album that year. We first got Yep,
The Lonesome geb Belief from John Mellencamp before he got
too grumpy, and Ice house Man of Colours had so
many hits out of the Tragic Music Box from nineteen
eighty eight here at ninety six afres