jOHNNY YOUNG AND kOMPANY - yOUNG jOHNNY

The future host of young talent time was a pretty good popster in his time, have a listen to this. Good versions of You better run, Tell him (tell her), Step Back and his chart topper cara lyn

Joh

Norman and effie - Amigos para sempre

A duet between Norman Gunston aka gary macdonald and Effie aka mar coustas (hhow's that for personalit crises..
It is a remake of the song made famous by jose carerre and sarah brightman fro the olympics of 92.
It is silly. The 2 song is a send up of Erotica from Madonna

amigoz

Chelsea Brown - On the Rocks

A rather enjoyable collection of songs by an American lady who made her fame on Aussie tellie in the soapie number 96, followed by appearances in such show as Blanketty Blanks

Chelsea

This rip was a bit scratchy...i will re-do

Audio Murphy featuring Slim Dusty - Fiddler man (single)

Audio Murphy where a techno / country project from the mid 90s. This is a fun single that was the follow up to AM's Tighten up your pants, featuring vocal by country music all time legend Slim Dusty

fid

Fester Fanatics - The Great Aussie Demo

This is real aussie rock blues rock pub rock played loud and angry not the poxy designer rock you get nowadays by bands with cute hipster sounding one word names. Fuck that shit
Alfie and his chums deliver


Festa

The Koalas - We Don't Want to Grow Up

The trend of the early 70s related or pretend family kid groups like the osmands, the jackson 5, the partridge family and so on found it's way to Australia in the form of groups of unrelated precocious preteens and teenagers singing annoying show tunes and hits of the day such as the TV show Young Talent Time. There where a host of b-teams some of which where fairly good which toured the length and bredth of Australia's shopping centres armed with a song in their hearts and a uniform of bad hair tunics and kinky boots. The koalas where on of them
Actually a niceish album for what it is. A ok version of chirpy chirpy cheep cheep and some hits from the hans christian anderson music amongst it

ko

Serious Young Insects - Be Patient 7"

Single from the album "Housebreaking" for early 80s new wave act Serious Young Insects, which featured later Boom Crash Opera's Richard Pleasance and Peter Farnan.
The A-side is whistful fey new romticish teen pop while the b is a nice industrial sounding post punk instrumental

patin