Sunday 24 June 2018

Count Hamilton's Fenurl - Your Turn Now
1969

The NZBC was the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
 

Count Hamilton's Fenurl were The Hamilton Country Bluegrass Band. Your Turn Now was the New Zealand Labour Party campaign song for the 1969  general election. So they released this single using a pseudonym. The B-Side was inspired by BBC Radio show The Goons.

David Calder
Mandolin/Vocals
Lyndsay Bedogni
Bass
Alan Rhodes
Guitar/Vocals
Len Cohen
Dobro/Mouth-Harp
Colleen Bain
Fiddle
Paul Trenwith
Banjo


Recorded off of the 7" vinyl single



Wednesday 13 June 2018

The Crocodiles - Hello Girl
1981



This was Wellington band The Crocodiles' fifth and final single to be released in New Zealand. The Crocodiles were formed in 1979 by guitarists Tony Backhouse and Fane Flaws, drummer Bruno Lawrence, and keyboardist Peter Dasent. All of whom played in Spats. They were joined by vocalist Jenny Morris and bassist Tina Matthew who both played in The Wide Mouthed Frogs. Their first single, Tears, was a New Zealand top twenty hit in 1980. Only Tony Backhouse and Jenny Morris were left of the original line up by the time Hello Girl was released. Soon after its release they relocated to Australia and disbanded a few months later. In their two years together The Crocodiles released two albums and five singles as well as two singles and two albums in Australia and a single in Britain. Hello Girl is sung by newcomer Rikki Morris (not relation to Jenny). While Jenny Morris sings the B-Side Romantic as Hell.



Barton Price
Drums
Jonathan Zwartz
Bass
Rick Morris
Guitar/Vocals
Jenny Morris
Vocals
Tony Backhouse
Guitar


New Zealand Vinyl Discography
Singles Label Year
Tears RCA 1980
Whatcha Gonna Do? RCA 1980
Telephone Lover RCA 1980
Teenarama RCA 1980
Hello Girl XSF 1981
Albums
Tears RCA 1980
Looking After Ourselves RCA 1980

Recorded off of the 7" vinyl single