Vicky Simms - 1962 - Yo Yo Heart @320

Yo Yo Heart/I Wanna Bop/She's Got Soul/ I'm Counting Up My Love



William Victor Simms, known as Vic Simms and Vicki Simms, is an Australian singer and songwriter. He is from La Perouse, New South Wales, and is a Bidjigal man.

Simms began his singing career at age 12 at the Manly Jazzorama Music Festival in 1957,soon after Col Joye heard him as an 11-year-old singing at a football social. He released his first single (as "Vicki Simms"), "Yo-Yo Heart" (Festival Records), at age 15. He performed with Johnny O'Keefe, Shirley Bassey and Robie Porter among other prominent singers.

After getting into alcohol and committing a robbery, he was sent to prison. Whilst incarcerated in the notorious Bathurst Gaol he learnt how to play guitar and started writing songs. In 1973, his music was heard by a Robin Hood Foundation and they sent a tape to RCA who organised to have him record an album. This album was recorded in one hour with a mobile studio in the prison dining room and was released as The Loner. It has been described as "Australia's great lost classic album of black protest music".After the release of the album he was sent on tours of other prisons, shopping malls and the Sydney Opera House as an example of a model prisoner. After he was convinced he was being used he refused to continue the shows.

After his release from prison, he reentered the entertainment industry. He has toured Australian prisons and, in 1990, he toured Canada with Roger Knox and Bobby McLeod where they played in prisons and on reservations. In 1996, he released a covers album, "From The Heart".

 Simms was given a Deadly in 2001 for Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music.

In 2009, The Loner was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry. In 2013, it was re-released by Sandman records.

"Selections From the Loner" was released by Painted Ladies 6 June 2014. Songs from the original album were re-recorded by artists including Luke Peacock, Paul Kelly and Vic Simms himself.

Simms sang "Stranger in My Country" in both the SBS documentary and accompanying cd, Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music.

Mouldy Warp Bush Band- 1986 - Folk Rock FLAC

One Night Singer/Sunny Queensland/Bail Up/Wayfaring Stranger


 Not to much on this band out there in the Ether if you have ant info let me know. More than likely a Quensland band whose members were Julie Zerner Keyboards Vocals,Kenn Zerner Bass,Acoustic Guitar, Greg Adams-Drums, Peter Jones-Mandolin,Vocals,Tin Whistle and Bass, Gary Mears Vocals,Acoustic and Electric Guitar and Banjo.  Thanks to John.

Rick E. Vengeance - 1981 - Mr. Diddy-Wa-Diddy FLAC

Diddy-Wa-Diddy/If I Were A Carpenter/The Camera-Devils Of Dublin/Stolen  Car Blues



Rick is a well known acoustic musician in the Australian Folk Music Scene whose speciality is Delta Blues and Leadbelly. He ran the very popular Folk Show on Melbourne radio station 3RRR for 29 years and was the producer and occasional interviewer for the Fairly Folk radio show on UGFM from 2011 to 2013. Rick is one of the regulars at the Port Fairy Folk Festival where he created and hosts the Sunday Singalong. When he is not playing professionally you can often catch him at a late night session at one of the many small gatherings in Victoria, hanging out with other session junkies and tune tramps.
 

First appearing on the folk music scene in Australia in 1977, many fans consider Rick an institution; especially when it comes to performing at Port Fairy.

Rick E Vengeance, with his eclectic taste in clothes and flair for entertaining, first appeared on the folk music scene in Australia back in 1977 and at Port Fairy in 1978. Now 38 years later, many fans consider him an institution (some would say a relic), especially when it comes to performing at Port Fairy, where his legendary Sunday Singalongs have become an absolute festival highlight. Over the years he has been many things – dance caller, radio DJ, guitar teacher, accomplished MC, band leader and a fine guitarist.  Thanks to Sunny