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Not much to say about this single as I have said it all on post # 406, Gaye was a member of The Cleves which turned into Bitch when they moved to the UK. Here for you to download is Gaye's one and only solo single from 1974 “Let A Little Love Come In” b/w “Minstrel Song” released on Anchor Records. I came across this link, which is some interesting reading, http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/musicfeatures/20110514/more
The three Brown children grew up on their parent’s farm in Clevedon, just south of Auckland. They all studied music and began to play together before adding another local, Milton Lane to their line-up. Milton played rhythm guitar and they called themselves the Clevedonaires
By 1965 they had changed their style and were then covering hits by The Who, the Small Faces and The Beatles. In 1966 they released their first recording on the Impact label called "How You Lied". 1967 saw two more singles, "He's Ready" and "Funny How Love Can Be". A final single, "Sunny Godge Street" was released in 1968, just prior to the group departing for Australia
On arrival in Australia they shortened their name to The Cleves. Their was plenty of work around Sydney, at one stage they had Vince Maloney (ex Bee Gees) in their line-up. From 1968 to 1970 they recorded three singles, "Tintookies 2000", "Sticks And Stones" and "You And Me" for Festival, along with two EP's, "A Taste Of Energy" and "Music From Michael" in 1970 and an album "The Cleves" in 1971.
The band moved to England in 1971, at which point Graham decided to return to New Zealand and was replaced by Aussie drummer Ace Follington (ex Chain and Country Radio). At this time they renamed themselves to Bitch. They recorded three singles here for you to download.
The three singles were "Laughing"/"House Where I Live" (CB-151) in 1971, "Good Time Coming"/"At The Party" (WB-16235) in 1973 and "Wildcat"/"I'm Gonna Love You" (K-16313) also in 1973. The first single was a cover of The Guess Who's 1970 hit. None of the singles were commercially successful. Bitch recorded an album for Warners which was never released.
After releasing a solo single Gaye Brown returned to New Zealand. Bass player Rob Aickin returned home in the mid-1970s and ended up producing Hello Sailor, The Dudes and Golden Harvest. He currently lives in Australia. Guitarist Ron Brown returned to New Zealand and along with Gaye and Graham Brown are now playing together again as The North Road Band.
Peter Best was born on the 18th October 1943 in Adelaide, South Australia. He is an award-winning Australian film composer who has contributed to such films as "Doing Time for Patsy Cline" (1997), "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), "Crocodile Dundee" (1986), "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988), "Bliss" (1985) and "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" (1972). His career started in 1970, but here’s a single from 1979 writen and produced by Peter Best for the Children Of The World during the "International Year Of The Child". The single also features Linda George and Paul Meaney. Here to download is the single "Care For Kids" b/w "Through Children's Eyes" (AP 11890) on Albert Productions. Big thanks to Peter for this one.
John St. Peeters got his start under the name Johnny Lo Piccolo. His first singles were accordion tracks as the fresh-faced Johnny was known as the “Squeezebox Kid”. John has achieved a number of chart-placed singles, including “Deep Inside of Me”, “High Class Woman”, “Wonderworld” and the single here for you to download "So Many Ways" b/w "Al Capone" (103294). The single was produced by Spencer Lee in 1978 for RCA Records. His big run of hits from 1978-1980 were on RCA and none of them have yet been released CD. In 2001 John did some foreign language versions of this single.
This was the second last single released by Chart Records, Harry Young & Sabbath who had the hit "Wheat In The Field", it was also their second last single release in 1971. The rest of Harry Young & Sabbath recording were released on a CD called "Recollections" which Includes their hit singles "Wheat In The Field", and "San Bernadino" plus many previously unreleased tracks. The members went their own way some years ago and are all still involved in the music industry. Neither this single nor it's B side were on that CD.(label change would be the reason I'm thinking.) Here to download is the single "Paper Girl" b/w "Bus Driver's Son" (CHK-4384). A side penned by Harry and the B side penned by Harry & Tony Mitchell. The single was produced by Ron Patton. To buy the "Recollections" CD go to http://ozsongs.com.au/ It's well worth a listen.
The 1972 Australian Cricket Team recorded this single to coincide with their Ashes Tour of England. It was done some years before the mass marketing of World Series Cricket. The whole of team sang on the record. There were many great cricketers in the side at the time: Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, Doug Walters and a dozen or so other household names. The single was co-written by Rod McQueen & Daniel Boone who had the hits "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast", "Skydiver" and "Beautiful Sunday". It was produced by Larry Page for Penny Farthing Records. Here to download is that single "Here Come The Aussies" b/w "Bowl A Ball Swing A Bat" (PFK-4776). The team of 1972 drew the series 2 all and thus England retained the ashes. In the next series in Australia 1974-75 Jeff Thomson and Denis Lillee ripped the English apart and we indeed won the ashes back. As a bonus we have included what we think must have been the English B side of the single, the same song appears on the A side and the same on the B side except the B side has a complete different musical arrangement bit of a mystery, maybe someone out there may enlighten us.......
Alan was born on the 7th of July 1931, he worked as a cabinetmaker, so he made his first guitar which led to a guitar making hobby. Later he joined the well known fretted instrument maker in Melbourne, “Maton” he stayed 15 years until he became a professional musician. In 1955 Alan & Brother Russell formed The Hawking Brothers, as a duo they recorded their first 78rpm Regal Zonophone disc, “My Darling Daisy”. Since then almost 30 more recordings in the Hawking Brothers name for W & G, Parlophone”, “Fable”, “Planet”, “Crest”, “Columbia” and “RCA”. Alan recorded 3 LP's and 5 singles for RCA as a solo artist, here to download is his 1982 single "If I Win Tatts Lotto" b/w "The Partner Nobody Chose" (103973). In 1988 sadly Alan passed away on 19th September.
