Guns and Butter (song)

"Guns and Butter"
7" single cover
Single by Do-Ré-Mi
A-side	"Guns and Butter"
B-side	"Bill the Cat"
Released	October 1986
Genre	New wave, rock
Label	Virgin Records
Songwriter(s)	Deborah Conway, Dorland Bray, Helen Carter, Stephen Philip
Producer(s)	Gavin MacKillop
Do-Ré-Mi singles chronology
"Warnings Moving Clockwise" (1985) "Guns and Butter" (1986) "Adultery" (1986)

"Guns and Butter" is a song by Australian rock/pop group Do-Ré-Mi released by Virgin Records in October 1986. The song peaked at number 48 on the Australian charts.

At the 1986 Countdown Australian Music Awards, Deborah Conway was nominated for Best Female Performance in a Video.^[1][2]

Track listing

All tracks were written by Deborah Conway, Dorland Bray, Helen Carter and Stephen Philip.^[3]

1. "Guns and Butter"
2. "Bill the Cat"

Charts

Chart (1986/87)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4]	48

Personnel

Do-Ré-Mi members

• Dorland Bray — drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Helen Carter — bass guitar, backing vocals
• Deborah Conway — lead vocalist
• Stephen Philip — guitar

References

1. "Australian Music Awards". Ron Jeff. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
2. "Final episode of Countdown". 1970scountdown. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
3. "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Retrieved 2008-10-14. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. GUNS AND BUTTER
4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 91. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.