Robin Jolley was called into Fable Records to re-work the
lead vocal of a Brian Cadd song "Marshall’s Portable Music Machine”, which was
a Tokyo Song Festival entry in 1972. The original Cadd vocals surface in places
just beneath Jolley’s and you can still here Cadd’s vocal in the chorus. After
this was done Robin thought he would fade into obscurity but the single went to
number one in Melbourne and top ten in Japan which made him a one hit wonder
there. Robin went on to do a bit of television acting in 1977 in the “Young
Ramsay”. Here out of 1973 in the Robin Jolley EP (FBEP 187) released on Fable
Records which also includes the Japanese version of “Marshall’s Portable Music
Machine”. All the songs on this EP were penned by Brian Cadd & Don Mudie, Jolley
went on to release a heap of singles for Fable as well as Festival and Lewis
& Young Records as well as a LP for Fable.
3 comments:
i was so shocked to see one of my favorite song from the early days here i just could not wait to download the realised it was the Japanese version :-( was wondering if you had english version and also great site some really rare recordings here regards BJ
Hi BJ,
The english version is available on TOMMIX's blog. Here is the link http://tommixmusic.blogspot.com/2008/10/download-no59-robin-jolley.html
Thanks for the compliment on the site!
Ozzie Music Man
What a Load of nonsense about downplaying Robin's part in the Hit song Mashall's Portable Music Machine!! and trying to uplay Cadd's part - proabbly little more than most song writers - his piano work by the sounds.
Jolley was Personally known to me for a long time: even his stage presence and aura was far more pleasant and well beyond Cadd's - which probably also contributed to the song's success.
Jolley's singing vpice and style were basically his own - and smoothe.
Cadd tended to squeak along - more like My voice Ha hah ah HA!!
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