[1] The song was released in March 1982, as a single from True Blue – The Best of John Williamson, but it failed to chart.
The lyrics included a reference to Vegemite, a food paste, but that was removed in a later version because Williamson "just didn't want the song to be commercialised".
[4] In March 2009, Williamson sang in a 30-minute musical, The Story of True Blue, which relates how an Australian cattle dog loses its family in a bushfire.
[5] In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "True Blue" was ranked number 27.
[6] In 1986, Williamson re-recorded "True Blue" and released it in September 1986 as the lead single from his sixth studio album Mallee Boy.