Friday, March 5, 2010

Casey Donovan - Listen With Your Heart


Listen With Your Heart/Nothing Else Matters
Casey Donovan is the youngest winner of the Australian Idol series, winning the second season of Australian Idol 2004, at the age of 16. Casey's post-Idol debut single, Listen With Your Heart was released digitally on 21 November 2004 and officially in stores on 29 November 2004 and it debuted at #1 on the ARIAnet singles chart. The B side is a Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters" recorded live on Idol.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Daryl Braithwaite - Breakin' The Rules



Breakin' The Rules/The Park/ The Horses (Acoustic Vers.)/Rise (Acoustic Vers.)



Throughout the seventies Daryl was frontman for one of Australia's most successful bands Sherbet upon the breakup of Sherbet Daryl went solo he's had his ups and downs in his career but is still going strong today. This single was taken from the Taste The Salt album and did not chart it has a couple of acoustic tracks as well as an instumental written by Daryl.


Peter Blakeley - God's Little Elvis



God's Little Elvis (Single Edit)/Through The Looking Glass (Album Vers.)/God's Little Elvis (Album Vers.)




Peter Blakeley is an Australian White Soul/Adult Contemporary singer and songwriter.
Blakeley was a lead singer for The Rockmelons in 1985. He launched a solo career in 1987 and had a massive hit single in Australia in 1990 with "Crying in the Chapel". In 1990 he won an ARIA award for Single of the year with "Crying in the Chapel", the first single taken from his album "Harry's Cafe De Wheels". Blakeley's The Pale Horse was released in 1993 by Giant/Warner in America. The album was recorded at the Paisley Park Studios in the US owned by Prince and included members of the New Power Generation on some of the tracks. One of the songs from the album Be Thankful For What You've Got was used in the opening sequence of the film The Taking of Beverly Hills, this single "Gods Little Elvis" taken from the album was released in 1994 but did not chart.