ComposerJan Preston

Songs "You're Right, You're Right"Written by Peter McIanPerformed by Dear EnemyCourtesy Castle MusicSBK Songs

"House of the Rising Sun"Performed by Dear EnemyCourtesy Castle Music

"Stay"Written by Chris Langford

Martin FisherPerformed by Dear EnemyCourtesy Castle Music

"Dance Away"Written by Jim CheneyPerformed by The BountyCourtesy Castle Music

"Shake it Down"Written by Jim Cheney

John Beatty Frank CalenzaEdward Parise

Performed by The BountyCourtesy Castle Music

"Free"Written by Jan Preston

Rod HayPerformed by Ron Martini

"Ride The Wave"Written by Jan Preston

Rod HayPerformed by Ron Martini

"On The Road"Written by Jan Preston

Rod HayPerformed by Ron Martini

"Cheater"Written by Lee KernighanPerformed by Lee KernighanCourtesy Castle Music

"Hotter Than Hot"Written by Lee KernighanPerformed by Lee KernighanCourtesy Castle Music

"Easy To Love"Written by Russell JamesPerformed by Penny PaviakisCourtesy Castle Music

At the start of the show, the hero puts on a new fangled CD - of Barbara Streisand’s CBS album The Way We Were - well they didn’t expect anyone with VHS to notice - and then begins jiving along to lyrics over the head titles from Peter McIan’s You’re Right, You’re Right, performed by Dear Enemy:

When I was a boyThe headmaster at schoolSaid I had an aptitudeFor breaking all the rulesMy father, he was angryI thought he would explodeMy mother said a rosaryPraying for my soul …So get yourself a jobLearn yourself a tradeYou have to pull the crazinessYou’d better change your waysOh, you’re rightChorus: You’re right, you’re right, you’re rightYou’re gunna be rightChorus: Too right, too right, too right.You’re so damn rightChorus: You’re right, you’re right, you’re rightBut I’ll do it anywayMy father said, now listen boy.You’re soon to be a manSo think about your futureAnd come up with a planI’m not even breathin’ (? obscured)Afraid of convincing meAnd this is what my brothers do‘Cause he was just like me Yes you’re rightChorus: You’re right, you’re right

(Music fades under noise of loudly revving hoonmobilethen a new song takes over at a party)

Lyrics for end titles song, which is a remake of House of the Rising Sun, also performed by Dear Enemy, with the lyrics as the song appears in the film (as opposed to other versions of this enduring classic):

...I’ve got one foot on the platformGot the other on the trainAnd I'm goin' back to New OrleansTo wear that ball and chainSo mothers, tell your childrenNot to do what I have doneSpend your lives in sin and miseryIn the House of the Rising Sun(lengthy guitar solo)...I’ve got one foot on the platformGot the other on the trainAnd I'm goin' back to New OrleansTo wear that ball and chainSo mothers, tell your childrenNot to do what I have doneSpend your lives in sin and miseryIn the House of the Rising Sun ...

Well, there is a house in New OrleansThey call the Rising SunAnd it's been the ruin of many a poor boyAnd God, I know I'm onoooohne ...(splash of guitars to finish)

The band Dear Enemy has a wiki here. The song You’re Right, You’re Right was released as a 45, but did no business, and didn’t seem to be connected on the cover artwork to the film, though the film’s poster mentioned the soundtrack being available. There is just a brief mention of the film at the bottom of the rear cover:

The song also turned up on the band’s collected CD:

Another song, Stay, briefly featured in the film, turned up on another 45 as well as the band’s collected music:

Jan Preston, Composer:

There is perhaps more pop music on the soundtrack than conventional underscore, but what there is was written by composer Jan Preston.

Jan Preston did the music for the NFSA’s silent movie release on DVD, The Kid Stakes, and that release provided this brief CV:

Jan Preston is Australia’s foremost boogie and blues pianist, performer and composer. Winner of five music awards, she plays festivals and concerts throughout Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe and China, tours her own shows and writes music for films and television. Composing for silent movies is one of Jan’s great loves, and she has performed her original scores for classic silents including Fritz Lang’s The Spy, Harold Lloyd’s Girl Shy, and Ernst Lubitsch’s So This is Paris

Preston has her own website here, which provided this more detailed biography:

I was born in Greymouth on the remote West Coast of the South Island of NZ. Our family had little resources or opportunity, but I grew up in an era where people would gather around the piano and sing together. From when I was very young I played piano while everybody sang along or played tea chest basses, eggbeaters, combs, violins, even an old saxophone.I had an Auntie who played honky tonk style, and heard Winifred Atwell along with early rock n roll on our old Columbus Radio in the kitchen.

Playing piano from the moment I could reach the keys, and being spurred on by my

older sister and brother who both played, I studied classical very seriously, becoming a star student, passing all my grades with distinction and gaining a very prestigious place (one of 4 students from the whole of NZ) to study a 5 year classical piano degree at Auckland University.

Although I loved classical music, by the end of the degree I wasn’t happy to be a concert pianist or, more likely, a piano teacher.

So I cut off my hair, and moved to Wellington where I experimented with different styles of music, working in an independent theatre group and then rock bands.

In 1980 my band, “Coup D’Etat” had a No. 1 hit with the song “Doctor I Like Your Medicine”, after which I moved across the Tasman to Sydney, playing in bands and piano bars as well as writing music for films.

It was some years later before I found my own voice, as a boogie piano player and songwriter.

So here I am, still resident in Sydney, but constantly touring to play festivals, concerts and shows around the world, (even a recent trip to China), and I am grateful for the success and musical path I have found.

I am still enormously passionate about music and have so much more to play, sing and write!

(Below: Jan Preston)