Fave Aussie Music

[red750]

On the Aurora Channel on Foxtel they have a wayback machine called Jukebox Saturday Night. They dug up an old clip the other day by the Dellltones with the baratone voice of Ian "Peewee" Wilson:

 

 

A web search reveals that they were still performing regularly as recently as 2015, performing what Peewee referred to as "fossil rock".

[Jerry_Atrick]

Someone asked about The Seekers.. Well, the song sung by the band has aready been put up, bit not as good as this one...

 

Enjoy!

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

I thought I had posted this already but a search didn't yield anything, so positing it.. A little contemporary, but a great song.. Enjoy...

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

OK,I admit it.. I have a bottle of Barossa Valley Estate Cab Sav with me... partner is one some HInter valley stuff (is it Rosemount???)4

 

Here is a another great unsung Aussie Band.. Better than "The Beautiful South", IMHO..

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Another sip, another clip...

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

TMG - Brings back some memories.. I think the back of her shorts had JerryAtrick's embroided on it at some stage

[old man emu]

 

 

The Atlantics are an Australian surf rock band founded in 1961. They were the first Australian rock band to write their own hits. The Atlantics had the advantage of having twin lead guitarists, both highly proficient on solo work and both capable of pushing the band along with a driving rhythm. It was this, together with the band members' European cultural influences (largely Greek with some Yugoslav and Hungarian - all members came to Australia as child migrants) that gave their music that passionate edge over other local bands of their day.

[old man emu]

Here's the leader of a 1930's Swing group, Jock Strapp and his Elastic Band.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Guest

[Jerry_Atrick]

This should be appreciated by all you homebuilders:

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

This bloke is brilliant:

[Jerry_Atrick]

Hi is absolutely unbelievable:

[onetrack]

Nothing says 1960's Australian rock music to me like the Bee Gees. Here's Spicks and Specks - and amazingly, it could be an ad for Cessna!

 

Edited April 27, 2020 by Guest

[red750]

Here's another iconic group that has been overlooked, and their name has an aviation link - tenuous that it may be. And there is another aviation connection as well.

 

[old man emu]

Wasn't it great in the 70's when it WAS the 6:30 news and not an hour of opinions?

[red750]

That's your opinion.

[Jerry_Atrick]

[Jerry_Atrick]

On 23/09/2017 at 5:48 AM, Yenn said:

Nobody seems to like my favourite Aussies. The seekers. I reckon Judith Durham has the nicest womans voice I have ever heard.

 

 

Well, Yenn.. You can relax.. My son, at 17 years of age has just discovered them. He is becoming politically aware (although taking a Willedoo stance to Russia... ) and was researching various things and for some reason has become interested in countries' national anthems.. Anyway, he showed me a few countries national anthems (inc. NZ) and remarked on what most of us thing about Advance Australia Fair.. Then he played me the Seekers "We are Australian".. His remarks were a) he could not understand why that wasn;t the Aussie anthem and b) what a wonderful voice JD has...

 

Edited July 31, 2020 by Jerry_Atrick

[nomadpete]

You've done well. You have inspired your son to use his enquiring mind. He'll go far....

[Jerry_Atrick]

Thanks... but it wasn't me. Pre-COVID, I was hardly home.. SWMBO should take the credit...

 

Edited August 9, 2020 by Jerry_Atrick

[red750]

Here's a couple more oldies resurrected by Jukebox Saturday Night.

 

 

 

[red750]

I've been through this thread from beginning to end. I was looking for LRB and found a couple, but these two bands seem to have been missed

 

First, Glenn Shorrock's earlier band, The Twilights  -

 

Needle in a Haystack

 

And Brian Cadd and Axiom  -  

 

Little Ray of Sunshine

 

[red750]

And here's another LRB classic

 

Lonesome Loser

[red750]

I was watching Jukebox Saturday Night again and they played Spectum's I'll Be Gone, but I note it is already included in this thread. 

 

However, here's another one they played, a group that started out in NZ but spent so much time in Aust we consider them one of us -

 

Mi-sex Compu-pu-pu-puter Games

 

https://youtu.be/gsHYSs_qgmU

[Jerry_Atrick]

I hadn't realised they started in NZ.. Sort of a prohpetic song,, that one...

[red750]

Damn this thread and its videos. I've got Spectrum's 'I'll Be Gone' stuck in my head and I can't shake it. @#$%^!