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Allan Robert Border AM is a former Australian cricketer. Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test matches in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh. Border still retains the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances of 153 and the number of Tests as captain. In 1994 Doug Parkinson here for you to download recorded a single for PolyGram Records called "Where Would We Be Without A.B. (855821-2).
The first time I ever heard of Mother Goose was of course with the 1st single "Baked Beans". Like a lot of others I thought, here’s another novelty song that the radio stations are going to flog and then we’ll never hear of these guys again. Here in the country area of NSW that was exactly what happened. They flogged the track and I never heard anything from them again. Most likely this wasn't the case in the capital cities because they did go on to release ten singles all up, five for Mushroom Records & five for Parole Records. It wasn't till I was reading about them that I realised that they also had many A & B sides that didn't make it on their three LP's. So off we went collecting all the singles and while putting this set together it was then I realised what serious songwriters and musicians these guys really were and wondered why so many of these weren’t big hits all around the country. One that really stands out to me was their single from 1982 "Lonely Girls". After ripping it and fixing it up I played it over and over. Steve Young who wrote many of their songs is a great song writer indeed. So if you were like me and thought "Baked Beans" was just another one hit wonder and these guys dressed a little weirder then Split Enz in their early days, forget that and have a listen to this set of singles because I'm sure you will come away with a very different opinion of the band Mother Goose. A big thank you also goes to Woodynet for the art work and for coming up with the name for this collection.
Extradition was a phenomenon when the band first appeared on the Sydney folk-music scene in the late 1960s. They were 'indigenous' exponents of everything remarkable that was happening in the contemporary folk movement and they carried that standard with all the magic and originality of those exciting times. They were impossible to label then and they don't fit into any established category today. Their one and only LP "Hush” remains one of the rarest albums released by an Australian artist. but unlike many other albums of the early seventies, this album is not rock nor blues orientated. Instead it mixes folk, traditional folk, yet remains very listenable. Here to download is their one and only single release from 1970 "A Love Song" b/w "Minuet" (SP-110) Produced by Jimmy Stewart and Doug Ashdown with Gus McNiel for Sweet Peach Records. A big thank you to Guy from rockonvinyl.blogspot.com.au for this single.
A one of single was released in 1980 called "Give 'Em A Taste Of Kiwi"/"Bondi Blues" (HR-600) for EMI. This was recorded by Black Bolt and the Silver Ferns, who were actually Murray Grindley and Neil Edwards, with Red McKelvie and Murray McNabb. The single reached #36 on the national charts. Murray Grindley was also known as Monte Video of "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang" fame. The B side was tagged Grindlay/Edwards/Fox/McKelvie as the artist.
"Gimme Dat Ding" is a 1970 song sung by "one-hit wonder" The Pipkins, written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. In Australia, versions by Frankie Davidson and Maple Lace were released to compete with the version by the Pipkins. The Maple Lace version can be found at post #3 of our blog, and here for you to download is Frankie's version of "Gimme Dat Ding" B/W "Witchetty Willie's Worldwide Walkabout Walla Walla Wookazoo Band" (FB-013). I must admit I bought this single for it's B side more then the A the title amazed me, how they could print all of it on a 45 single label, but they did. Frankie penned the B side and the single was released in 1970 on Fable Records. The B side reminds me a lot of Charlie Drake's "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" with a touch of Rolf Harris in there too, see what you think? "Gimme Dat Ding" was used (as Gimme Dat Ring) by Coca Cola to advertise their new Ring Pull Cans in the early 1970s. The song reached #7 in Canada. In March 2007, a cover version of "Gimme Dat Ding" received much publicity in Australia when the National Australia Bank used the track as background to its television advertisement for the Australian Rules Football Auskick program for junior footballers.
