George Worontschak worked as a musician for Circus Oz in the 1980s.

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1 Music Solid Rock by Dire Straits written by Mark Knopfler courtesy of Polygram Records Albert of India by Split Enz written by Eddie Raynor courtesy of Mushroom Records Boys by Sports written by Ed Bates and Steve Cummings courtesy of Mushroom Records original music by George Worontschak original music performed by Aspen Flyers and written by Stephen Saylor George Worontschak worked as a musician for Circus Oz in the 1980s. He is listed at AusStage here. He later began working under the first name "Yuri", and racked a substantial number of credits as composer, music engineer, music supervisor for television productions, including composer on the feature film productions Take Away and You and Your Stupid Mate. For television, he composed music for many shows, including Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, other ABC shows such as Agony Aunts and Agony Uncles, the children's show Animalia, and stretching back to the early days of comedy shows like Fast Forward in the late 1980s. (Below: Yuri Worontschak) The band the Aspen Flyers was the house band for Highlands at Aspen, and Steve Saylor was their guitarist-fiddler. There is a reminiscence about Saylor here.

2 There's some samples of their work, and album covers available here.

3 The film offers this credit: original music performed by Aspen Flyers and written by Stephen Saylor Presumably the band featured in the film is the Aspen Flyers, on a snow fields tour down under:

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7 David Argue and Lance Curtis also contribute a couple of musical stylings:

8 The movie has a song running over the end titles. David Argue sings most of the song, but Lance Curtis joins in for the spoken dialogue, and there is also a chorus. Lyrics for the song (there may be minor transcription errors due to quality of singing and source material): Feel the thrill of bump and hill Christie stem turn and the spill Dodging moguls parallel Practice makes it all go well Small talk, snow talk, skis and chicks Praise and mojo do the trick

9 Snow plow and how with the lads Away from home and mum and dad (Chorus with male choir) Boy oh boy and snow Boy oh boy let's go Boy oh boy eat snow Boy oh boy let's go Night time brings its own rewards Snow bunnies to be adored Glu wine flowing, munchies coming Him and her are out blue bumming (Chorus with male choir) Boy oh boy oh boy It's all down hill from here Boy oh boy oh boy It's all down hill no fear (spoken lines as music continues) Shove it, mate let's go Okay, now what are we We are skiers, we are skiers Skiers is what we are, yeah we are skiers Yep we are skiers, we are skiers Just keep on telling ourselves Skiing is what we (breaks off) (Singing returns) Feel the thrill of bump and hill Christie stem turn and the spill Dodging moguls parallel Practice makes it all go well Small talk, snow talk, skis and chicks Praise and mojo do the tricks Snow plow and how with the lads Away from home and mum and dad (Chorus with male choir) Boy oh boy and snow Boy oh boy let's go Boy oh boy eat snow Boy oh boy let's go (vocals then repeat previous lines over 'boy oh boy' chorus)

10 (chorus then repeats several times with cowboy yells ) (spoken lines as music continues) Hey Darren aren't we going to join the ski school? No mate, if we join the ski school we'll look like we can't ski eh (more chorus and cowboy yells) (spoken lines as music continues) I reckon we can teach ourselves to ski anyway We don't need to learn to ski We'll probably both be just naturals at it Eh your sense of timing, you'll be fantastic (more chorus and cowboy yells) (spoken lines as music continues as titles end and music continues over black) Look mate it's skiing you never stop for somebody that's as equally as bad at stopping as yourself (David Argue singing over black) Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy it's amazing white stuff...