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Friday 8 July 2022

Post 746 - Paul Gaffey - The Band Plays Oom Pah Pah - Barley Rye


 Paul Gaffey is an Australian singer-songwriter whose past remains shrouded in mystery. All that is known about Gaffey are his minor Aussie Top 40 hit "And the Band Played Oom Pah Pah " b/w "Barley Rye" (K 5567) and his ambitious prog rock album about the demon "Mephistopheles". The basic story is about a woman reminiscing about the days she spent with her love at the local ballroom before he went to war in 1944. The single A & B side was produced and written by Simon Heath in 1974 for Festival Records. FLAC


3 comments:

stacky said...

Thank you Ozzie - remember this clip being shown in B&W on
channel 7's Sound Unlimited when Graham Webb & Ian Maurice hosted.
Have never seen Gaffey's rare album 'Mephistopheles' from 1975.

BigGray said...

I have had Mephistopheles for a number of years now. I didn't know about this single.

Thank you,

G.

rayc said...

Thanks for keep'n 'em coming.