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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Bushwackers Band - 1976 - The Shores Of Botany Bay
Shores of Botany Bay/South Australia/The Cuckoos Nest
By the time of the British Pop Invasion of the 1960's the flame of Australia's bush music heritage was barely alive. It wasn't until the early 1970's that the massive resurgence in folk music overseas inspired such Australian bands as "The Larrikins", "The Cobbers", and "The Original Bushwhackers and Bullockies Bush Band". Their success in those years is evidenced in part by ten albums and many gold records; the biggest selling Australian songbook ever; soundtracks for feature films and television series'; numerous awards and an entire ABC documentary devoted to the band.
The Bushwackers' astounding popularity in concert peaked in the 1980's when their dances attracted crowds of 4,000 in capital cities. One memorable night more than 1,000 people were turned away from a sell-out show at the "Birkenhead Barn" in Sydney.
Even after ten years of solid touring the public just couldn't get enough of The Bushwackers - long after most other bands formed in the same era had burned out or faded away. However in 1984 The Bushwackers too decided to call it a day, due primarily, to the costs of keeping a band of their stature on the road but also, to the desires of long-standing members to establish a home and family of their own.
Within just a few months Dobe, Roger and newcomer Melanie were signed as "The Bushwackers Band" to publishing giant Warner Chappell and a new recording deal was struck with ABC/EMI. Their latest recordings are among their finest with the band as potent as it ever was, and perhaps more focused.
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Friday, 18 February 2011
Easybeats - She's So Fine
Say That You're Mine/For My Woman/The Old Oak Tree/She's So Fine
To describe The Easybeats as "Australia's Beatles" is not to damn them with faint praise. They were without question the best and most important Australian rock band of the 1960s, and their string of classic hit singles set the benchmarks for Australian popular music. They established a unique musical identity, and they became our first homegrown rock superstars, and for quality, inventiveness and originality their work is arguably unmatched by any other Australian band of the period. The Easybeats scored fifteen Top 40 Singles in Australia between 1965 and 1970, including three No.1 hits. Chief among their many achievements, the Easybeats hold the unique honour of being our first bona-fide rock group to have an major overseas hit record the legendary "Friday On My Mind". They were also one of the few major Australian bands of their day to perform and record original material almost exclusively. Their influence both during and after their meteoric 5-year career cannot be understated and The Easybeats deserve to be ranked as one of the greatest bands of the last 40 years.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Red Onion Jazz Band - 1962 - Red Onion Jazz Band
The Girls Go Crazy/Whispering/See See Rider/Cake Walking Babies
The Red Onion Jazz Band, formed by high school friends around 1960 as the Gin Bottle Jazz Band and concluded at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues in 1996, was a Melbourne traditional jazz band, which is to say that it featured the instrumentation of the early small groups—clarinet, trumpet and trombone in the front line, and a rhythm section which included a banjo or guitar, tuba or string bass, possibly a piano, and drums—and built its repertoire initially on the classic recordings of Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke and Johnny Dodds. Its career, which was unusually long for a band of its type, saw it move from a kind of cult status in the casual dances of the early 1960s, through periods in which the popularity of traditional jazz (or jazz of any kind) waned considerably, to a position of seniority and enormous respect at the time of its dissolution. The band released eight LP and four EP recordings during the 1960s and early 1970s, and during the 1990s recorded two CDs, one of which was released only after the band had ceased performing. The Onions created their persona as a band early and were a distinctive presence for as long as they existed as a group.
The first period of the Onions’ career lasted until clarinetist Gerry Humphrys, who had been in the band for three years, tubist Lynch, and pianist Ian Clyne, a more recent addition, broke away to form the pop group the Loved Ones. This followed the dramatic change in musical taste among teenagers which occurred around the time of the Beatles’ Australian tour in 1964.
Friday, 4 February 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Eric Jupp And His Music - Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (known commonly as Skippy) is an Australian television series created by Australian actor John McCallum, produced from 1967–1969 (airing from 1968–1970) about the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney.
Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were produced. The show was filmed in colour and after airing in its home country, it was shown in the United Kingdom and Canada, where it was first screened between 1969 and 1972. The Nine Network readily repeated the series several times after Australian television switched to colour transmission in 1975.
Ed Deveraux - Sings & Tells The Story Of Skippy
The Story Of Skippy/Skippy The Bush Kangaroo/Along The Road To Gundagai/Waltzing Matilda
Ed Devereaux (27 August 1925 – 17 December 2003) was an Australian actor, director and scriptwriter who lived in the United Kingdom for many years. He was best known for playing the part of Matt Hammond the head ranger in the Australian television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes, Devereaux writing the script and directing the episode The Veteran (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim.
Monday, 17 January 2011
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