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"Bop Girl"
Single by Pat Wilson
from the album Strong Love
B-side"Tacky"
ReleasedSeptember 1983
StudioRhinoceros
GenrePop
Length3:33
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)Ross Wilson
Producer(s)
Pat Wilson singles chronology
"Bop Girl"
(1983) 		"Strong Love"
(1984)
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"Bop Girl" is the debut single of Australian pop singer Pat Wilson. The song was written by her then-husband, Ross Wilson[1] of the bands Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock. "Bop Girl" was released in September 1983, peaking at number two on the Australian Kent Music Report, number ten in New Zealand and number 28 in South Africa. At the 1983 Countdown Music Awards, the song won Best Debut Single. Wilson was also nominated for Most Popular Female Performer and "Bop Girl" was nominated for Best Promotional Video.[2]

Music video

Film maker

South Coogee. At the Countdown Australian Music Awards for 1983, it was nominated for Best Promotional Video.[2]

Track listings

7-inch vinyl (WEA – 7–259854)

  1. "Bop Girl" – 3:51
  2. "Tacky" – 3:17

12-inch vinyl (WEA – 0–259850)

  1. "Bop Girl" – 4:33
  2. "Tacky" – 3:17

Charts

In popular culture

"Bop Girl" was featured in the short-lived 1980s American sci-fi show Otherworld episode "Rock n' Roll Suicide", with the two young members of the family performing it in a talent show. The song was featured as the title song for the short-lived Being Lara Bingle.

References

  1. Australasian Performing Right Association
    (APRA). Retrieved 7 April 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Countdown Awards on Sunday". The Canberra Times. Vol. 58, no. 17, 725. 9 April 1984. p. 19. Retrieved 22 August 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Hughes, John (8 January 2008). "Lost in the '80s: Pat Wilson, "Bop Girl"". popdose.com. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Ross Wilson interview on Talking Heads with Peter Thompson". Talking Heads. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 9 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  5. ^ Cashmere, Paul (27 April 2004). "Who was Ross Wilson's 'Bop Girl'?". Undercover. Archived from the original on 18 November 2004. Retrieved 22 August 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ISBN 0-646-11917-6
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  7. ^ "Pat Wilson – Bop Girl". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  8. ^ "SA Charts 1965 – 1989 Songs A-B". South African Rock Lists. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  9. ISBN 0-646-11917-6
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  10. ^ "Kent Music Report – National Top 100 Singles for 1983". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 22 January 2023 – via Imgur.
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