TED MULRY GANG WANTED HOT WOMEN TO JUMP IN THEIR CAR

Hitchhiking was a very trendy pasttime during the 1970`s in Australia as a way to get a free ride from one place to another. But after a spate of grissly adbuctions and murders arising from the practise, mainly involving younger and attractive women who foolishly took their life into their own hands by hopping into a stranger's car, hitchhiking by the early 90`s, at least for women, was virtually forbidden. Back in the mid 70`s though, it was the trend, and the australian band TED MULRY GANG paid a tribute to hitchhiking, in a round about away, with the australian charttopper JUMP IN MY CAR, which spent six weeks at No. 1 on the chart in late 1975. Mulry was in fact an englishman who was born in Oldham, Lancashire, but Australia was the only country where he achieved any success, both as a solo artist and with TED MULRY GANG, which was often shortened to TMG. He played both guitar and bass at varying stages during his career, he was in fact playing bass by the time TMG formed in 1972, handing lead guitar responsibilities to LES HALL. Prior to 1972, he played acoustic guitar and was a well respected songwriter for other artists, including JOHN FARNHAM and THE EASYBEATS. After the huge success of JUMP IN MY CAR, the band never came close to scaling such commercial heights, but the band remained a popular live drawcard on the australian pub circuit right through to the late 80`s. The film clip for JUMP IN MY CAR was recorded near the Sydney Opera House on the shore of Sydney Harbour. Mulry passed away from incurable brain cancer in 2001.