John Paul Young - One Foot In Front Cassette

War Games/She Made A Fool Out Of You/System Overload/Call The Night/Soldier Of Fortune/Cryin' Eyes/Body Heat/Love Is For Heroes/Television Girl/LA Sunset

Released in 1984 and the again on CD in 1992 as War Games with 7 bonus tracks his first since Singer 3 years earlier where he sang the hits, it was JPY's stab at recording a relevant album for the times. The new album was a major step forward in style for John, featuring a distinctly ‘adult-oriented' style and a “contemporary electro-pop sound”. Most of the material had been co-written by Capek and Canadian Marc Jordan, plus one Young/Morgan composition "Cryin' Eyes". "Soldier of Fortune" returned JPY to the Australian Top 20 for the first time in five years when it reached #15 in December. The song gained further prominence when it was picked as the theme song for the 1984 Disabled Olympics held in New York, and it also went on to be a hit in Germany. The single and album put Young back in the spotlight for a while, but it proved to be his last hurrah as a chart performer and apart from two more one-off singles, "Spain" (EMI, October 1986) and "Don't Sing that Song" (CBS, June 1989), he essentially retired from recording and performing, although he continued to work on and off as a radio DJ.

Billy Thorpe - The Hoax Is Over Cassette

Gangster Of Love/Goodbye Baby/Mississippi/Truth

Another massive album from my youth, laying on my bed, headphones on, volume up, head nodding, sheer ecstasy.

The comeback album for Billy Thorpe after a successful career with the Aztecs I in the early sixties and then the demise of beat groups, then bankruptcy he retreated to melbourne traded the suit for denim grew his hair recruited Lobby Loyde,Warren Morgan,Paul Wheeler and Kevin Murphy and the Aztecs legend was born.

We start of with the Massive twenty four and a half minute "Gangster of Love" I know you'll be hanging out for Kevin Murphy's six minute solo you'll only have to wait 12 minutes for that. Next up a relatively short number "Goodbye Baby" clocking in at three and a half minutes. Track number three another long one "Mississippi" some nice harp on this one, clocks in at nearly ninteen minutes. Then last but not least "Truth" another short one only four minutes but my favourite on the album and a great one to finish a nice rocker, overall a really great album a piece of Aussie history a legendary album. OK we have the 320kbps album in the header and if you would like the Huge but oh so satisfying wave file you can get it HERE

Jade Hurley - King Of Country Rock

Honky Tonk Angel/Sweetness And Innocence/Good Morning To You/Cry Cry Cry/Why Do They Doubt Our Love/Castles In The Sky/Great Balls Of Fire/Whole Lotta Shakin'/Rave On/Sweet Little Sixteen/Do You Wanna Dance/Don't Ya Just Know It

Here's another one from Jade Hurley a bit earlier than the others 1975. If you would like to know a bit about Jade just scroll down to the previous posts. Side 1 is mostly Jade's own compositions with one by J O'K while Side 2 is primarily Rock'n'Roll standards, of some interest is the last track where Jade duets (or is that Triouets) with Little Pattie and J O'K.

Sandy Scott - Here's Sandy

Here In My Heart/Medley (a)In The Arms Of Love(b)Can't A Man And A Woman/Take My Eyes Of You/ Beg Your Pardon/The Impossible Dream/Woman Woman/Hallelujah I Love Her So/Red Roses For A Blue Lady/Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa/What Will Mary Say/More/Spanish Eyes

Here is a nice one from the ever popular Sandy Scott while you may have hated him it's a certainty your mum would have loved him. Sandy came out of the same era as Johnny O'Keefe, Col Joye and Dig Richards but he was definitely not a rocker he was more like your Australian Andy Williams singing covers of popular ballads of the time as can be seen from the selection of songs on this album. A funny album this one it seems to have been packaged to sound like a live album with the audience added at a later stage some of the tracks have the audience start and finish while others have it only at the end then by side 2 they seem to have given up adding the audience altogether. I decided since the audience sounded out of place to remove it altogether except for the first song which may or may not be live but it has the master of ceremonies introducing Sandy so I decided to leave it in.

Johnny Chester - The Hits Of Johnny Chester

She's My Kind Of Woman/Let's Build A Love Together/Once I Was A Truck Drivin' Man/The One In The Middle Of Lonely/Gwen (Congratulations)/Nowhere In Particular/Glory Glory/The World's Greatest Mom/Kawliga/My Ding A Ling/Midnight Bus/A Lonely Man Like Me/Shame And Scandal/Ready Mix Revenge/ My Special Angel/Highway 31/Gotta Get Back To Tamworth/Sally On Sunday/She's Gone/Mother In Law

With a recording career that began in 1961 and continues even stronger today, Johnny Chester is one of Australia's most enduring recording artists.
His singing career started in 1959 when at the age of seventeen he began running a dance in the St Cecilia's Church Hall in Melbourne's suburban West Preston. With his mum selling tickets, his dad on the door and great support from the teenagers in the area the local dance soon grew too large for the venue and so was moved in late 1960 to the much larger Preston town hall.

Here with the enormous support of legendary radio disc jockey Stan 'The Man' Rofe the dance became the most successful of its time and Johnny soon came to the attention of W&G Records. This was all during the time in Melbourne when rock'n'roll was king.

During the 60s, whilst establishing himself as a recording artist and songwriter, he hosted two national television series for the ABC. He toured with a host of overseas stars including the Beatles, Roy Orbison, Dion and the Everly Brothers and worked as associate producer of the national 'Kommotion' Televison show and a disc jockey on Melbourne's number one radio station 3UZ as well as doing an entertainment tour of duty for the Australian and American forces in Vietnam.

During the 70s we saw a major musical transition take place as Johnny Chester moved via a varied but well charted course in to Country Music. Winning along the way three consecutive Golden Guitars at the Australasian Country Music Awards for Male Vocalist of the Year and many other accolades as well both here and overseas. He continued to tour with his own show and with international acts like Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Roger Miller, Charlie Pride and Freddy Fender. He also hosted two more national television series for the ABC. From 1989 to 1991 he hosted several weekly radio programs including his 'Soundabout Club' and his 'World of Country Music' for Radio Australia, our international broadcaster.

Icehouse - Masterfile

Icehouse/Walls/Sister/We Can Get Together/ I Can't Help Myself/Great Southern Land/Street Cafe/Hey Little Girl/Dusty Pages/Don't Believe Anymore/Taking The Town/Mr Big/Baby You're So Strange/No Promises/Cross The Border/Love In Motion

Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.

Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best known singles on the Australian charts were "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).

Have a look around todays Australian music scene where is this generations Icehouse where is their Iva Davies, what a great band this was, on listening to this compilation as I did the packaging and cleanup I was reminded again how truely talented Iva was/is like most great bands they've seen their day but they ruled in the eighties. Every song is a winner on this album and not to many bands can claim that amount of recognition as far as their songs go. A little bonus is the last song which I'd not heard before as I only came by this cassette this week is the last song, Chrissy Amphlett singing "Love In Motion" .

The usual 320kbps album is in the header and if you'd rather have it as a wave try HERE

Fanny Adams Cassette

Sitting On Top Of The Room/Yesterday Was Today/Got To Get A Message To You/Ain't No Lovin' Left/You Don't Bother Me/Mid Morning Madness/They're All Losers, Honey

My second cassette post and already I've run into a problem the cassette only has six tracks on it the last track on the album "They're All Losers Honey" wasn't included (I wonder why) so I've included it using the track off the overseas CD release.

This had to be my favorite album for so long it's a wonder it's still in such good nick with all the plays it got. This band should have done great things if they had been a UK band I'm sure they would have gone a lot further and been remembered as one of the greats. Look at the lineup Doug Parkinson on vocals one of the greatest singers this country has seen a member of the Questions, In Focus, Life Organisation and of course his long solo career. Vince Melouney on guitar founding member of the Aztecs, a member of the Bee Gees and stints in so many other bands, Teddy Toi a member of Max Merritt and the Meteors, Aztecs II, and Johnny Dick also with Max Merritt, the Aztecs and the Allstars backing both Stevie Wright and John Paul Young . You'd think with so much talent they would have done more but they did leave us with this one great album.

Judy Stone - Born To Lose

Welcome to My World/Stand By Your Man/Ladybird/Walk through This World With Me/Gentle On My Mind/Born To Lose/I'll Step Down/Finders Keepers/ 4,003,221 Tears From Now/ I Wanna Love You/ I'm Confessin'/You'll Never Know

This week I received a new toy in the mail a USB cassette capture recorder. It's not often I transfer my cassettes over to the digital medium as my old cassette player had the annoying habit of occasionally chewing them up so now with the new toy I thought I would start transferring them. So here is the first one, on playback I thought that the album's second side had degraded as cassettes seem to have a habit of doing until I realised that side 2 was in mono not sure why that would be anyway I'll see how things go and for a while I'll be posting my cassettes let me know what you think.

Judy Stone grew up in Sydney and during her teens taught herself to play the guitar. She was heavily influenced by country and western music. In 1960, she met Col Joye and with his help she soon became a regular on Channel Nine's Bandstand. She was also touring around the country with Col and the Joy Boys. In June 1961, she signed a recording contract with Festival Records. Her first two releases were minor hits in Sydney. Her third single, I'll Step Down b/w Mommy and Daddy We're Twisting, was released in February 1962 and became her first Sydney Top 10 when it peaked at number five in March.

Festival then released her debut album also called I'll Step Down to take advantage of her success. Stone and Joye by this stage had begun singing duets on Bandstand so it was no surprise that they teamed up to record a number of EP's and an album. Between June 1962 and July 1963 she released three more moderately successful singles before she finally broke through nationally in April 1964 with her single 4,003,221 Tears From Now, which reached the Top 10 on most charts around the country. Two more singles were issued before year-end but neither made any impact on the charts.

In early 1965, she embarked on a two-month overseas trip to Asia and Japan with Col Joye and the Joy Boys. Her final single for the Festival label was released in September and in February 1966 she married Leo De Kroo of the De Kroo Brothers duo. She then signed up with Col Joye Enterprises' ATA Records, scoring her third Sydney Top 10 hit single in September with Born A Woman. For the rest of the Sixties she continued to consolidate her success with regular appearances on the club circuit as well as touring interstate and overseas. During this period Judy issued five unsuccessful singles for the ATA label before switching to M7 Records in 1971.

Her first M7 single, Day by Day, made the Sydney Top 10 in November. The mid-Seventies was her most successful period in more than a decade with two Top 20 hit singles in 1974 on the M7 label and one Top 40 and one Top 20 hit single in 1976 on the Polydor Records label. Judy Stone also represented Australia at Expo '74 in the US and in the mid-1977 she travelled to the UK where she signed with recording and management company Power Exchange. She continued to perform and record into the early Eighties.