ALLAN CASWELL

Allan Caswell was born in Chester and grew up in North Wales, Berkshire and South London before migrating to Australia in 1966. He was educated at Wimbledon County Secondary School and later at South Sydney Boys High School. He has worked full time in the Australian Music Industry since 1979. Allan Caswell’s songwriting career started in 1973 when Chris Gilbey signed a song he had written with his brother Brian Caswell to Albert Music in Sydney. However, it was six years later when Allan Caswell had a song recorded. Again, he was signed by Chris Gilbey, this time to the newly formed Australian subsidiary of ATV Music Limited - ATV Northern Songs. The first song signed was ''On The Inside'' which became the theme for the television series Prisoner and later a major international hit song. The success of ''On The Inside'' triggered a succession of recordings by artists of the calibre of Patti Page, Cilla Black, The Irish Rovers, Max Bygraves Acker Bilk, Slim Dusty, The Living End, Chad Morgan, Lynne Hamilton, James Blundell, Anne Kirkpatrick, Don Spencer, Graeme Connors, The Delltones, Doug Ashdown and Ricky May.

Caswell won his first Golden Guitar in Tamworth for Best New Talent in 1980, Song of the Year in 1981, 1983 and 1986, Male Vocalist of the Year in 1988, Vocal Collaboration Of The Year (with Drew McAlister) in 2007 and Bush Ballad Of The Year (With Manfred Vijars) in 2016. In 1988 he was the recipient of the Songmaker Award. Caswell has been Awarded nine Southern Star Awards (Australian Independent Country Music Awards), including three times Album Of The Year. In 2016 He won an unprecedented five Awards Album, Single, Heritage Track, Male Vocal, and Independent Artist Of The Year. 

Caswell released his 15th album in July 2016 and continues to write, produce, and lecture on songwriting. In 2016, Caswell celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his arrival in Australia in 1966 with an album called '50 Years in Oz'. In the same year he won a Golden Guitar, five Southern Star Awards and had 55 of his songs recorded in a single year. In 2006 Caswell published his first book Writing Great Song Lyrics. The book has proved popular with young songwriters and is an important part of his many songwriting workshops.In 2019, he released his autobiography My Version Of The Truth and moved to Queensland where he lives with his wife Marian in Varsity Lakes. In 2020, Caswell released his 20th album, 'Tequila Amnesia'. He also released his third book, Secrets of Stronger Songwriting

SINGLES
''Take Me Back To Yesterday (Dedicated To A Decade Without The Beatles) / King Of The Rodeo'' 1979 Mercury 
''We Used To Call It Heaven / First Time In My Life'' 1980 GO 
''Sign On The Dotted Line / Poor Side Of Heaven'' 1980 7 Records 
''One Armed Bandit / Loco Friday Night'' 1981 7 Records 
''Used To Be A Gold Song / Isn't That Just Like You'' 1982 Columbia 
''That's The Real Thing'' [with Deniese Morrison] 1982 Country Man 
''The Australia's Cup (#17) / Lonelyheart's Waltz'' 1983 EMI 
''What Happened To Love / It's Not Such A Bad Idea'' 1983 Country Man 
''Burning Candles At Both Ends / Blue Day'' 1983 EMI 
''Moruroa / Beyond The Blues'' 1984 Atoll 
''(You Can Be) Somebody's Shadow / Black Jack Blues Again'' 1987 EMI 
''Are We Having Fun Yet? / Funny Thing About Rainbows'' 1988 True Blue 
''Have You Read To Your Children Today? / This Is Gonna Be The One'' 1988 EMI 
''Bald Is Beautiful / You Still Take My Breath Away'' 1989 True Blue 
''I'm Gonna Take A Heartbreak / Still Crazy Over You'' 1990 True Blue 
''Proud / (I've Got Those) 12 Bar Blues'' 1990 True Blue 
''Where Do Old Cowboys Go? / Love's The Best Cure'' 1991 Enrec
"A Little Bit of Country in Us All" 2006 Origin
"Strong Enough" 2007 Black Inc
"Rules for Love" 2008 
"It's a Country Song" 2011 
"I'm an Aussie Shark" 2012 
"Brave Enough to Dream" 2012 Big Radio
"One Last Muster" 2015
"Back When I Was Older" [with Michael Carpenter] 2016
"Life Like It's a Trainwreck" [with Michael Carpenter] 2017
"High Hopes" [with Michael Carpenter] 2017 
"Want That Back Again" [with Michael Carpenter featuring Felicity Urquhart] 2017
"The Roses Fall" [with The Weeping Willows] 2018 
"Feeding the Crew" 2018 
"Train to Godforsaken" 2019 
"Country Copper" 2019 
"Bad Politics" [with Damian Cafarella] 2019 
"Hard Times and Struggle" 2020 
"Bordertown" 2020
"I Do" [with Donna Fisk] 2020 
"That Holden Saved My Life" 2020 
"Spin" [with Damian Cafarella] 2020

ALBUMS
'What Happened to Love?' 1982 Country Man
'Handwritten' 1987 EMI 
'Heart Written' 1990 True Blue 
'Different Eyes' 1995 Larrikin 
'Caswell Sings Caswell' 2001 Shoestring Production
'Don't Count on It' 2002 Shoestring Production
Al's Bar And Grill Released: 2006  ORIGiN
'Rules for Love' 2008 Allan Caswell 
'Behind Bars' 2010 Allan Caswell 
'Just Kidding' 2012 Allan Caswell
'It's a Country Song' 2012 Allan Caswell
'Sometimes When Lose When You Win' 2014 Allan Caswell
'My Version of the Truth' 2015 Shoestring Production 
'50 Years in Oz' ' 2016 Allan Caswell
'Carpenter Caswell' [as Carpenter Caswell] 2017 Carpenter Caswell
'Mexico' 2018 Allan Caswell 
'Tequila Amnesia' 2020 Chihuahua Records

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Caswell

http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/