DAVE ALLENBY WAS A LONDON-BORN COCKNEY COMEDIAN, SINGER AND ACTOR WHO CAME TO SETTLE IN OZ IN 1970. HE WAS HIRED AS A SUPPORT ACT FOR THE BEACH BOYS WHEN THEY WERE ON THE LAST LEG OF THEIR WORLD TOUR. BEFORE ARRIVING IN OZ HE HAD U.K. CHART SUCCESS WITH HIS FIRST SINGLE “WHERE HAS THE LOVE GONE”. IN ENGLAND DAVE HAD PERFORMED WITH: ROY ORBISON, THE EVERLY BROTHERS, BILLY ECKSTEIN, ROGER WHITTAKER, THE HOLLIES, CILLA BLACK, AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN…THE LIST IS ENDLESS.
HE IS STILL PERFORMING LIVE CABARET IN OZ AND OFTEN TEAMS WITH ROD HULL & EMU TO DO SHOWS ON THE CLUB CIRCUIT.
HIS OZ HITS INCLUDE: “SHE WORKS IN A WOMAN’S WAY”, “SWEET GINGERBREAD MAN” AND “SAIL AWAY”. NONE OF WHICH HAVE BEEN PUT ONTO C.D. AS FAR AS I KNOW. HIS FIRST HIT WAS BACKED BY SYDNEY BAND “THE AUTUMN” AND PRODUCED BY BARRY MCASKILL.
THE COVER PICTURE ABOVE IS AUTUMN'S ALBUM CALLED "SONG TO RAYMONDO" WHICH IS THE VINYL ALBUM WHERE THE SONG “SHE WORKS IN A WOMAN’S WAY” CAN BE FOUND.
THIS DOWNLOAD IS TWO OF HIS HITS: “SHE WORKS IN A WOMAN’S WAY”AND “SWEET GINGERBREAD MAN”.
"DISCO LADY" BY DARK TAN WAS ONE OF THE FIRST 12" RECORDS MADE BY AN OZ GROUP.
ALSTON WAS COMMISSIONED LATER TO WRITE, PRODUCE AND PERFORM ON THE AMERICA’S CUP ALBUM AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE SONG ‘KOOKABURRA’.
HERE IS THE EXTENDED TOM MIX VERSION OF "DISCO LADY" EXTENDED FROM THE 7" SINGLE.
http://rapidshare.com/files/107911978/dark_tan_-_disco_lady__ext_tom_mix_.mp3
MONTE VIDEO A.K.A. MURRAY GRINDLEY, EX MEMBER OF N.Z. GROUP "THE UNDERDOGS", MADE A 1982 TOP 40 HIT WITH THE SURPRISING TITLE "SHOOP SHOOP DIDDY WOP CUMMA CUMMA WANG DANG".MY FAVOURITE LINE IS "WHAT KIND OF A GIRL DO YOU THINK I AM"...WHICH IN ITS DAY WAS ALMOST A NOD TO TRANSGENDER LEANINGS....IN A WHOLSOME KINDA WAY, OF COURSE!
THE SONG WAS FULL OF SUGGESTIVE "NUDGE-NUDGE-WINK-WINK" NAUGHTINESS AND WAS CONSIDERED MORE A NOVELTY HIT THAN ANYTHING ELSE. IT WAS RECORDED IN N.Z. BROUGHT TO AUSTRALIA FOR MIXING AND EDITING THEN RELEASED ON MUSHROOM RECORDS. IT MADE RESPECTABLE FIGURES IN THE CHARTS IN 1982, IT GOT TO NO.2 IN N.Z. AND NO.11 IN OZ.
THE 12" EXTENDED MIX WAS ISSUED ON THE "WHITE LABEL" IN 1983 FOR WHEN THE SONG WAS RELEASED IN THE U.K. SADLY, AS FAR AS I KNOW, IT SANK WITHOUT A TRACE IN BLIGHTY. THE 7" SINGLE VERSION HAS BEEN ISSUED ON C.D. ON A SERIES CALLED "WHERE WERE YOU IN 1983?"
THIS DOWNLOAD IS THE ULTRA RARE 12" MIX FROM MY OWN VINYL COLLECTION.
VICTORIA NICHOLLS WAS A VARIETY ENTERTAINER WHO GOT A BIG T.V. BREAK AS A CO-HOST ON THE OZ VERSION OF “SALE OF THE CENTURY” 1980-1982. SHE PLAYED A SEMI-COMEDIC ROLE IN MOST EPISODES AND WAS ALWAYS BUBBLY. VICTORIA IS AN ACTRESS AND HAS APPEARED IN THE "YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS", "PRISONER", "ECHO POINT", "BLUE HEELERS", "SOMETHING IN THE AIR" & "M.D.A."
HER MAJOR SINGING DEBUT CAME IN 1979 WITH HER VERSION OF "MIDNITE RENDEZVOUS".
HERE IS THE EXTENDED DISCO MIX OF HER OLD HIT:
http://rapidshare.com/files/106547636/victoria_nicholls_-_midnite_rendezvous__ext_vinyl_tom_mix_.mp3
ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF 1979 WAS C'MON AUSSIE C'MON.
"DAVE AND THE DERROS" WAS CREATED BY LEAD SINGER DAVID JONES (WATMUFF). DAVID JONES WAS A RADIO STATION DISC JOCKEY BASED IN NEWCASTLE N.S.W.DAVID HAD A LARGE REPERTOIRE OF RADIO CHARACTER VOICES, ONE OF WHICH WAS HIS BELOVED “DAVE THE DERRO”.
BACK IN 2004 I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF HELPING DAVID CONVERT SOME OF HIS COMEDY ROUTINES TO C.D. AS HE WANTED TO PRESERVE HIS WORK. WHILST DOING THIS I ASKED IF HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME 12” REMIXES DONE? WHEN HE SAID YES, I COMPLETED TWO FOR HIM:, “NICE LEGS SHAME ABOUT THE FACE” (ULTIMATE TOM MIX) AND “TWO CANS OF BEER AND A PACKET OF CHIPS” (EXTENDED TOM MIX). (CLICK OPEN HIS MESSAGE).
DAVE HAS GIVEN ME KIND PERMISSION TO INCLUDE SOME SONGS BELOW FOR DOWNLOAD.
"EXTENDED FOURPLAY BY DAVE":
1) NICE LEGS SHAME ABOUT THE FACE (ULTIMATE TOM MIX)
2) UP YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE (MONO 7”)
3) DEATH TO DISCO (MONO 7”)
4) TWO CANS OF BEER AND A PACKET OF CHIPS (EXTENDED TOM MIX)
http://rapidshare.com/files/104971668/dave_and_the_derros.rar
THE FORMAT FOR 12" MIXES WAS NOT ADOPTED BY ALL OZ ARTISTS OF THE 1970S-1980S BUT SKYHOOKS HAD A COUPLE OF EXTENDED REMIXES.
MOST PEOPLE IN OZ KNOW OF THE SONG "SUBURBAN BOY" BY DAVE WARNER BUT DAVE HAD A FEW LESSER KNOWN SONGS LIKE "NOTHING TO LOSE" LATER IN 1979.
JOHNNY ASHCROFT A.K.A. "THE BARON".TERRY AND FRED FORMED A DUO IN SYDNEY IN THE LATE 1960S AND SANG TOGETHER FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE GOING INTO T.V. COMPETITIONS LIKE "NEW FACES" IN THE EARLY 1970S. THEY WON THE GRAND FINAL. THEY ALSO WON A BANDSTAND "SONG WRITERS AWARD" WITH THEIR SONG "BIG WHITE HORSE" WHICH WAS RELEASED
IN DUE TIME AS THE FLIP SIDE TO "THE GHOST".
AFTER THEIR NEW FACES WIN THE DUO WERE SIGNED TO THE OZ SPIN LABEL. THEY RELEASED "THE WHALE" AND HAD HUGE INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS. THEN THEY WERE FACED WITH WHAT TO RELEASE NEXT? THEY CHOSE THE COMPETITION WINNER "BIG WHITE HORSE" AND WROTE A NEW 'A' SIDE "THE GHOST" IN THE STYLE OF THEIR PREVIOUS HIT. IT WAS NOT AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE FIRST HIT. "THE WHALE" IS STILL POPULAR TODAY AS A BUSH BALLARD AND HAS BEEN RELEASED ON C.D. COMPILATIONS.
IN 1998 THE DUO BOUNCED BACK WHEN THEY RELEASED A C.D. OF THEIR RE-RECORDED GREATEST HITS CALLED: "THE WHALE & OTHER STORY SONGS".
THE DOWNLOAD HERE IS THE MONO 7" SINGLE OF THE GHOST.
http://rapidshare.com/files/104018038/fileding_and_dyer_-_the_ghost__vinyl_tom_mix_.mp3
