I am not the type of man that likes any commercial rating”. Of the promotion song about him he said, “I don’t like it. The lyrics of that song appeared a few days later, on Sunday 16 th December 1979, in A man for all matches, an interview of Alan McGilvray published in the same newspaper, The Canberra Times: The venerable, admirable and conservative McGilvray (“ He’s been there! He’s done that!”) has become so indispensable to the proper, sober, traditional wireless broadcasting of cricket in this country that to exploit him in this way is a lot like producing a jingle which asserts “The Church is not the same without Wojtyla *”. One had hoped that the ABC’s tasteless promotional ditty “The gam’s not the same without McGilvray” would, with the effluxion of time, prove to be less distressing.Īlas, the very opposite is proving to be the case and since one is likely to hear it several billion times this summer there seems to be every chance that the trite and embarrassing lyrics and the gauche melody will be indelibly embossed on our brains by the time our cricketing visitors return to their respective homelands in February. The earliest mention of that line that I have found is from Ian Warden’s radio column, titled that day Wielding willow with a Bombay curry poultice, published in The Canberra Times (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) of Thursday 13 th December 1979: This phrase seems to have originated in a line of a 1979 tribute song to the Australian cricketer and cricket commentator Alan McGilvray (1909-96). Of Australian origin, the colloquial phrase been there, done that means fully experienced in, or familiar with, something, especially to the point of boredom or complacency as an interjection, it flippantly expresses boredom, impatience or total lack of interest.
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