John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens - Everything's Alright

Everything's Alright/ Jesus Christ Superstar Overture (Instrumental)

 Everything's Alright with John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens made it to #6 on the charts and had a stay of  14 weeks in the latter part of 1992.


Cast list
Jesus of Nazareth - John Farnham
Judas Iscariot - Jon Stevens
Mary Magdalene - Kate Ceberano
Pontius Pilate - John Waters
King Herod - Angry Anderson
Caiaphas - David Gould
Simon Zealotes - Russell Morris

Kate Ceberano - I Don't Know How To Love Him

I Don't Know How To Love Him/Could We Start Again Please 

Released in Dec. 1992 didn't make quite as good a showing as Everything's Alright only making it to #38 and staying in the Charts for 4 weeks.

Both singles are taken from the Jesus Christ Superstar (1992 Australian Cast Recording Highlights) which like it's 1972 predecessor was a huge success being awarded awarded 'Highest Selling Album' at the 1993 ARIA Awards and going 4× Platinum and selling 280,000 albums.The production was seen by a recording breaking 987,000 people over 82 nights. It’s highlights soundtrack is considered a defining rendition of the musical.   Thanks to Guy from over at the Rock on Vinyl Blog for sending me these 2 singles.

Crash Politics - Mothers' Intentions

Great Smell Of Freedom/Memories/Promising Lines/Stop/Silence In The Air/Bitter Rain/Push Me/Sweet Dreams/Oh What A Day/Mothers' Intention




Crash Politics Formed in 1982, They were the first band signed to RooArt, which released their debut album Mothers' Intentions. Crash Politics were an Australian band that sounded a bit too much like INXS (with perhaps a dash of Pseudo Echo) but without a member who could rival the rock star 'charisma' of a Michael Hutchence.

Members Stuart Paton (vocals, guitar), Ross Farnell (bass), Michael Wood (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Andrew Reefman (drums, vocals)

Anthony Callea - Hurts So Bad

Hurts So Bad Album Version/Hurts So Bad Low Frequency Occupation Crazy Fader Remix/Hurts So Bad M.N. Re-Work/Hurts So Bad Low Frequency Occupation Summer Funk Club Mix



 Anthony Cosmo Callea (born 13 December 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter who rose to prominence after being the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. He was signed to Sony Music Australia until 2009 and is now an independent artist. Callea's debut single "The Prayer" is the fastest-selling single by an Australian artist, held the No.1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for five weeks, a record for the debut single of an Australian Idol contestant, and was the second-highest selling Australian single of the last decade

His self-titled album, Anthony Callea, also debuted at number one, on the week of 4 April 2005. It held the top spot on the Australian ARIA Charts for 3 weeks before dropping to number three. The album was certified double platinum. Anthony's third single "Hurts So Bad" debuted at number ten on the ARIA Charts.

John Paul Young - Now

Happy The Man/Groovin'/Just One Look/ I'm Walkin/I'm Left You're Right She's Gone/Ain't That A Shame/Medely_Blue Moon,Stormy Wheather/ Love Is In The Air/Silver Shoes And Strawberry Wine/I Hear You Knockin'/St. Louis/Hard Road



There’s not much of John’s career that hasn’t already been documented: a string of hits spawned over 4 million record sales, a couple of King of Pop awards (The ARIA of their day), a Logie and a bunch of radio and TV awards from around the country and overseas.

JPY’s signature tune “Love Is In The Air” came back as an international hit in the 90’s after it was included on the soundtrack for the movie “Strictly Ballroom”. John’s been back in the charts in Europe since with “…Air” on a Milk&Sugar Vs JPY mix, and also with an IRS Vs JPY remake of “Can’t Take My Eyes Of You”. JPY’s ability to vary from a light pop to an edgy rock pop voice and his sparkling personality gave a particular stamp to a special type of Australian pop – one that found hits throughout Europe, South Africa & the US.
As a performer John was hard to beat, and remains so. There are few people who enjoy playing music as much and who give the audience their all. After featuring in the TV Series “Long Way to the Top” John and The Allstar Band climbed aboard for the 2002 National Tour and again to tour nationally in 2006 & 2007 on the highly successful Countdown Arena Spectaculars. In 2008 John was awarded the International Variety (The Children's Charity) Club's "Presidential Citation" for services to the charity. Also in 2008 John was nominated for a Helpmann Award for best supporting artist in “Shout” The Johnny O'Keefe Musical - playing 14 cameo roles throughout the show meant for lots of quick changes & an impressive variety of character voices.

On August 27th, 2009 John joined a selection of Australia’s finest musicians in the ARIA Hall of Fame. A statement to the incredible musician he is and his outstanding contribution to the music industry.

Johnny Young - Step Back

Step Back/Cara-Lyn/Kiss Me Now/When Will I Be Loved/Lady/Good Evening Girl/Mrs Willoughby/It's a Sunny Day/Let It Be Me/All My Lovin'/Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You/Craise Finton Kirk/I Am the World/After Dark/Epitath to Mr Simon, Sir/Unconscientious Objector/This Is My World/Mr Reagan 43/Willy Nilly/Devoted to You




 Johnny Young (born Johnny Benjamin de Jong, 12 March 1947) is a Dutch Australian singer, composer, record producer, disc jockey, television producer and host. Originally from Netherlands, his family settled in Perth, Western Australia in the early 1950s. Young had a career in the 1960s as a pop singer and had a number one hit with the double-A-side, "Step Back" and "Cara-lyn" in 1966. As a composer, he penned number one hits, "The Real Thing" and "The Girl That I Love" for Russell Morris, "The Star" for Ross D. Wylie and "I Thank You" for Lionel Rose. He presented and produced the popular television show, Young Talent Time, which screened on Network Ten from 1971 to 1988 – it launched the careers of teen pop stars Jamie Redfern, Debra Byrne, Dannii Minogue and Tina Arena – typically each episode closed with a sing-along rendition of The Beatles song "All My Loving".
On 9 March 1990, Young was inducted into the TV Week Logie Awards' Hall of Fame. On 27 October 2010, he was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame by Tina Arena who performed his song, "The Star". He is the first, and so far only, person to be inducted in both halls.

For this post I have ripped the CD as Mp3 @320 which can be found HERE and a wave version that can be found in the header.

Motor Ace - Animal

Want You/The Time, The Place/A Little Closer/Not So Blue/Ordinary Day/Tomorrow's Gone/The Winning Streak/You'll Fall/In Space/No Place to Go




Motor Ace were an Australian alternative rock band. Formed in Melbourne around 1998 out of the remains of another band named Snowblind, their members were Patrick ('Patch') Robertson (vocals/guitar), Damian Birchall Costin (drums), Matt Balfe (bass), and Dave Ong (guitar).

Animal is the third and final album by Australian post-grunge band Motor Ace, released in 2005. A more reflective CD, it had less emphasis on upbeat rock and was heralded by critics as Motor Ace's most mature work yet.
Unfortunately, Animal didn't quite reach the commercial heights of its predecessors, dropping out of the ARIA Top 40 after only three weeks. The album received little, if any, support from radio - including Triple J, which had previously given the band heavy airplay. The commercial failure of the album prompted Motor Ace to officially disband by the end of 2005.

Lee Harding - Wasabi

Wasabi/Eye of the Tiger



Lee Harding (born 8 June 1983) is an Australian pop singer. He is from Frankston, Victoria, where he worked at the local AMC cinema multiplex. He became known from performing in the third season of Australian Idol and being a member of the band "Patience Project".

Lee Harding's musical career began shortly after being eliminated from the third season of Australian Idol, as the third runner up. His debut single "Wasabi" was released in December 2005 and debuted at number one on the Australian Music Charts, managing to remain in the Australian Singles Top 50 for twenty-two consecutive weeks and finishing as the eighth highest single in the End of Year – Aria Singles Charts for 2006.

Lee's first single, "Wasabi", lasted 5 consecutive weeks in the #1 position on radio charts nationwide. "Wasabi" held this title with TV Rocks "Flaunt It" for the highest number of consecutive weeks in 2006 for an Australian single to be in the #1 position on the charts. The single debuted at #1 in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart in December 2005, and remained at the top spot for five consecutive weeks. It was certified gold in the first week, and certified platinum in the second week. The song was popular on Lowie's Hot 30 Countdown, reaching number one on several occasions.

Hi Everyone

Well just arrived home today after 5 days in hospital so there's a bit of a backlog in requests for new links so bear with me still not 100% might take a few days to get back into it.

Powderfinger - On My Mind

On My Mind/Sweetness (Band Room Demo)/On My Mind (Band Room Demo)/ This Song Has Gone to Hell (Studio Outtake)



"(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" (also known simply as "On My Mind") is a song on Powderfinger's fifth studio album Vulture Street. It was released as a single in 2003 and reached #9 on the Australian music chart, the band's third highest charting single to date.

After two albums of Powderfinger releasing singles that were either acoustic anthems (such as "My Happiness") or ballads ("The Metre" or "The Day You Come"), Powderfinger decided to release a heavy rock song as their new album, Vulture Street's lead single. In accordance with this, the band's publicity was geared towards a more rock oriented slant, with magazine covers and articles indicating that they were "returning to rock," alluding to the rock albums Parables for Wooden Ears and the highly successful Double Allergic, however some criticism was that the band's "rock" sound was different from previous releases, indicating that they were trying to be more like AC/DC than previously. Although the single for the song was released under the title of "On My Mind," the album cover has the song's title printed as "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind." It is alleged that Bernard Fanning implicitly wrote the lyrics as a tribute to former radio and television personality John Burgess.
The album's artwork is of a painted ship entitled "On My Mind". The design style of the cover and case is in the same style as the other singles from Vulture Street, however all are very different from the album itself, except for the use of highly contrasting colours.

Max Merritt - Max Merritt And The Meteors (A Little Easier)

King Size Rosewood Bed/Mr. Horizontal/Wrong Turn/Coming Back/ 
A Little Easier/Find A Home/Long Time Gone/Slipping Away




In May 1975 Clive Davis, head of Arista Records, arrived in London to establish a UK division of the company. On the recommendation of Rolling Stone journo Andrew Bailey, Davis went to hear the Meteors at the Nashville Rooms and signed them on the spot, making them the first signing to the new division. Their first single on Arista was the superb "A Little Easier", released in July. On the basis of this song alone one can see why Davis signed them. It's a swampy, foot-stompin soul-blues chant, with a a masterful vocal by Max and tasty Leslie-treated slide guitar by Gourd, the song. Surely one of Max's very best recordings, it had 'hit' written all over it, but parocialism seems to have held sway once again and tragically it didn't create any interest at all in the UK.

Their first Arista album, also called A Little Easier, was released in September along with their second single, the poignant "Slippin' Away". Happily, this caught the ear of Aussie radio program directors and it and became their biggest Australian hit ever. Max's classic ballad reached #2 in Australia, and buoyed by the single's success, the album soared up the national chart and became an Australian best seller, reaching #4 in November 1975. It fared equally well in New Zealand, reaching #5 in November and staying on the NZ charts for six months, although curiously the album did not chart there. It also garnered considerable airplay in London and should have been a big hit there, but problems with Arista's distribution department hampered the availability of the single and interest ebbed away.

Mark Williams - Mark Williams

Show No Mercy/Fix Of Love/Spell Is Broken/Heavy Woman/Good Thing/Love Electric/Shanghai Lily/You're So Cool/Feel For The Night/
Fool No More



Mark Williams (born 1954) is a New Zealand-born pop/soul singer with Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) number one hit singles, "Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life" (1975) and a cover of Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (1977) before he relocated to Australia later that year. His single, "Show No Mercy" (1990) was a top ten hit in both countries. He has undertaken extensive touring in support of numerous Australian bands and worked in television, in 2005 he became the vocalist for the reformed New Zealand/Australian band, Dragon.

Marcia Hines - What A Feeling

What A Feeling/What A Feeling (M1-11 12 inch Mix)/What A Feeling (Discoteque Mix)/What A Feeling (Easy Skanking Mix)/What A Feeling (Freakazoid Dub Mix)/What A Feeling (Extended Mix)/ I Got The Music In Me



Marcia Elaine Hines, AM (born 20 July 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an Australian vocalist, actress and TV personality. Hines made her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the Australian production of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.
She achieved her greatest commercial successes as a recording artist during the late 1970s with several hit singles, including cover versions of "Fire and Rain", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "You" and "Something's Missing"; and her Top Ten albums Marcia Shines, Shining and Ladies and Gentlemen. Hines was voted 'Queen of Pop' by TV Week's readers for three consecutive years from 1976.

Hines stopped recording in the early 1980s until she returned with Right Here and Now in 1994, the same year she became an Australian citizen. She was the subject of the 2001 biography Diva: the life of Marcia Hines which coincided with the release of the compilation album, Diva. Since 2003 she has been a judge on Australian Idol, and her elevated profile led to a renewed interest in her as a performer. Her 2006 album, Discotheque, peaked at #6 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums chart.

Hines is the mother of singer Deni Hines, with whom she performed on the duet single "Stomp!" (2006). Hines lives near Newcastle, New South Wales with Christopher Morrissey, her husband since 2005. Her status in the Australian music industry was recognised when she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on 18 July 2007

"What a Feeling" was released in 1999 and is a single taken from the album Time of Our Lives it made it to #66 here in Australia and #23 in New Zealand.

Tommy Leonetti - Dream Street

What Is There To Say/ Exactly Like You/ Lost In A Fog/Lucky In Love/My Ideal/Now I Know/The Way You Look Tonight/Cross Your Heart/ The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else/Deep Purple



While not Strictly an Australian Artist Tommy Leonetti did live and record here for a number of years and while not quite in the same catergory as Don Lane I decided to post the album here. Dream Street was originally released in 1959 with a different cover depicting a much younger Tommy I'd hazard a guess that the album was re-released here to coincide with his poularity at the time.

Tommy Leonetti (10 September 1929 – 15 September 1979) was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song was "My City of Sydney" (written by Leonetti & Robert Troup) and was used by the Australian TV channel ATN7 in Sydney for station identification into the 1980s. In America he achieved greater success as a songwriter for movies and Broadway plays.

Tommy Leonetti was born Nicola Tomaso Lionetti in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1929. He married the American actress Cindy Robbins and was stepfather to her daughter, Kimberly Beck. They lived in Sydney, Australia, in the 1960s and 1970s before returning to America. While in Australia, Leonetti hosted his own talk-show from 1968 to 1970 for ATN-7.

Toni Lamond - Still A Gypsy

Don't Fence Me In - Gypsy In My Soul/ 99 Miles From LA/Breezin' Along With The Breeze/ Lost In The Stars/Stomp/The Happy Years/ Swanee-Swanee River/Ragtime Cowboy Joe/St Louis Blues/Sante Fe/Throw It Away/ That Place That I'll Call Home.


Toni Lamond AM is an Australian cabaret singer, stage and television actor, dancer and comedienne. She was given the nickname of "Lolly-Legs Lamond" by fellow veteran performer Noel Ferrier after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight.


Lamond was born in Sydney in 1932, as Patricia Lamond Lawman. She began her professional career at the age of ten when she sang on the radio while touring with her vaudevillian parents in variety shows ,which included her actress mother Stella Lamond. Her first stage performances were at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney. Her first performances as a leading lady were with English comedian Tommy Trinder in The Tommy Trinder Show in 1952. She has starred in Australian productions of Oliver!, Annie Get Your Gun, The Pajama Game and Gypsy: A Musical Fable and was a regular in a number of 1970s television shows such as Number 96 and Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight. She later compered her own IMT, becoming the first woman in the world to compere a variety television show.

She travelled to the United Kingdom where she appeared in the British night club circuit as well as on BBC-TV and BBC Radio. She also recorded two singles for Philips in London.[4] In the mid 1970s Lamond moved to Los Angeles where she appeared in musicals and television shows. She debuted on the New York stage with Cabaret at the age of 67. On her return to Australia in the mid 1990s she performed in shows including 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance and My Fair Lady.

In 2007 Lamond featured in Australian film Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance. In April–May 2008 she appeared in an autobiographical one-woman show, Times of My Life (co-written with her son Tony Sheldon), at the Seymour Centre in Sydney.

Lamond has written several autobiographical books including, First Half (1990), Along the Way (2002) and Still a Gypsy (2007). The first book went to the top of the best-seller list in eight days.

In July 2010 Lamond was a headline act in the inaugural Melbourne Cabaret Festival.


The dozen tracks are a splendid example of Lamond's skills at selling a song and an object lesson in diction, timing and making the absolute most of your vocal talents. A real highlight is Breezin' Along With The Breeze, in which she is joined for the first time on disc by half-sister Helen (I Am Woman) Reddy for a jokey, light-hearted duet in which their voices blend marvellously. And a bouncy big-band arrangement of Stomp lets Lamond and Kerrie Biddell unleash the sort of energy that would do credit to someone half Toni's age. Swanee and Old Folks At Home are combined in a gently swinging arrangement and it's nice to hear unfashionable songs such as Ragtime Cowboy Joe and St Louis Blues done with such affection. Santa Fe adds a reflective note, and music theatre is represented by the haunting Lost In The Stars, by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson, and Throw It Away, an amusing song about letting go of the past, a reject from Schmidt and Jones's I Do! I Do! Quality arrangements throughout cap an excellent album.

(From Showbiz Column by Jim Murphy)

Christine Anu - Party

Party/Extra Mile


Christine Anu (born 15 March 1970) Australian pop singer. Anu was born in Cairns, Queensland to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai.
Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993 with "Last Train", dance remake of a Paul Kelly song. The follow-up, "Monkey and the Turtle", was based on a traditional story. After "My Island Home", she released her first album, Stylin' Up which went platinum, and also gained her a position as a spokeswoman for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

In 1995, Neil Murray won an Australasian Performing Right Association songwriting award for writing "My Island Home". Christine Anu won an ARIA Award for best female recording artist as well as a Deadly Sounds National Aboriginal & Islander Music Awards Award in 1996 for best female artist.

Baz Luhrmann asked her to sing on the song "Now Until the Break of Day" on his Something for Everybody album. It was released as a single and the video then won another ARIA award and led to her being cast in Moulin Rouge!.

It took five years for a follow-up to Stylin' Up to be released; 2000's Come My Way made her a mainstream star. The single "Sunshine On A Rainy Day" was a Top 40 hit for 13 weeks in Australia. Come My Way went gold.  In 2000 she sang the song "My Island Home" at the Sydney 2000 Olympics Closing Ceremony.

Anu has been nominated for 16 ARIA Awards.
On 26 September 2010, she released a new digital only single, "Come Home". This is her first solo single since 2003.     

"Party" is the 3rd single of her successful 1995 album Stylin Up #21 the single made it to #20.

Chocolate Starfish - Accidentally Cool

Accidentally Cool/Rollercoaster


Chocolate Starfish were an Australian rock music group formed in 1992 before disbanding in 1998. By March 1993 the line-up was Darren Danielson on drums, Norman Flavo on keyboards and backing vocals, John "Stone" Nixon on bass guitar, Zoran Romich on lead guitar and Adam Thompson on lead vocals. Their self-titled debut album was issued in April 1994, which peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was followed in October 1995 by their second album, Box, which reached No. 6. Their highest charting single, "You're So Vain", was a cover version of Carly Simon's 1972 hit. It appeared at No. 11 on the ARIA Singles Chart in September 1993. They had another hit with "Mountain" in March 1994, which reached No. 12.

"Accidentally Cool" was  a single taken from their 1995 album Box it has the non-album  "Rollercoaster" as it's b-side. The single made it to #39 and was there for 6 weeks.

John Paul Young - Heaven Sent

Heaven Sent/Don't You Walk That Way/ I Don't Wanna Loose You/Love You So Bad It Hurts/Hot For You Baby/Can't Get You Out of My System/ I Ain't Ready For Love/Bad Side Of The City


 John Paul Young OAM (born John Inglis Young on 21 June 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland), known as JPY or Squeak to fans, is a Scottish-born Australian pop singer who had a 1978 worldwide hit with "Love Is in the Air".[1][2] Initially performing as John Young, he was associated with songwriters/producers Vanda & Young (ex-The Easybeats),[3] who provided him with "Love Is in the Air", "Yesterday's Hero", "I Hate the Music" and "Standing in the Rain".

His career was boosted by regular appearances as a performer and guest host on national broadcaster, ABC's 1974–1987 TV series, Countdown. For touring purposes he fronted The All Stars, who also worked with Vanda & Young's former bandmate Stevie Wright. The All Stars included Warren Morgan (ex-Chain, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) on piano and vocals, who co-wrote songs with Young. Besides "Love Is in the Air", Young had top ten chart success in Germany and the Netherlands with "Standing in the Rain" and four other top ten hits in South Africa, including No. 1 hits with "I Hate the Music" in 1976 and "Yesterday's Hero" in 1977.

On 27 August 2009, Young was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame.

In 1979 JPY assembled the The All Stars the lineup at this stage was, Ray Arnott (ex-The Dingoes) on drums, Tony Buchanan on saxophone, Ian Miller guitar and Warren Morgan piano, with Vanda & Young briefly joining on guitars to record Heaven Sent it was  released in September and while one of his better efforts only manged to crack the top 100 at #95.

Peter Andre - Kiss the Girl

Kiss The Girl/Kiss The Girl (Original Version)/Best of Me


"Kiss the Girl" is a song was written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman for Walt Disney Pictures' twenty-eighth animated feature film The Little Mermaid (1989). Originally recorded by American actor Samuel Wright in his film role as Sebastian, "Kiss the Girl" is a calypso ballad, the song's lyrics encourage a young man to kiss his female love interest before it's too late. "Kiss the girl" has received mostly positive reception. The song was nominated for both an Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but lost both to "Under the Sea," another song from The Little Mermaid soundtrack.

When The Little Mermaid was re-released in cinemas, Peter André recorded a version of the song, which reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart. This version was later included on the Japanese issue of his third studio album, Time.
The Music Video for the song shows Andre performing the song in a recording studio. Scenes from the film are intercut with the video or shown on a backdrop behind Andre and the backing singers. There are slight references to water and the undersea world in the video. As Andre performs a beautiful girl comes in carrying water. Andre sees her and is immediately taken with her. He helps her clean up the water as she spills it and follows her into the next room where they gaze at each other through a fishtank. Andre tries to kiss the girl but she backs away. He follows her again as she goes outside and they share a kiss.

Max Sharam - Be Firm

 Be Firm/Out In The Cold



Leanne Maree "Max" Sharam (born 1967, Benalla, Victoria) is an Australian musician, writer and artist. In the mid-1990s, Sharam had three top 40 hit singles, "Coma" #14, "Be Firm" #25 and "Lay Down" #36, from her top 10 album, A Million Year Girl #9 (1995). She received eight nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 and won "Best Cover Art" by Dominic O'Brien for the album.