A diversity of tracks from Soviet Russia ranging from MOR to boy band to rock - then some Japanese 60s pop. Combined with the usual mix of Australasian single rarities, along with Patti Smith singing You Light Up My Life, Flo & Eddie with guest vocalist Shirley Strachan, some Krautrock and obscurities old and new. This week's Obscured By..., presented by Michael Hunter, was - in the words of the Flying Lizards song played - "very... very... very..."
Tony & The Initials The Girl Of My Best Friend (45, NZ 1961)
Newfolk Today (45, NZ 1967)
Chaos & Co Seven Golden Daffodils (45, Aust 1966)
The Strangers Put Yourself In My Place (45, Aust 1966)
The Gremlins You Gotta Believe It (45, NZ 1967)
Jim Keays' Southern Cross Undecided (45, Aust 1976)
Selection of Russian tracks:
Unknown artist & song - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvYyA_jGhA for the full horror
Kino Peaceful Night (Blood Type 1988)
Steklovata Novi God (single c 2007)
Noid Kattepajo (Arranged Traditional Vepsian Songs 2009)
Selection from Go Go Group Sounds Japan - 1965-69:
The Lind & Linders Crap (sic) Your Hands
The Tigers C-C-C
The White Kicks Alligator Boogaloo
The Voltage Shakin' My Soul
A trip through the crevices of the "V" section of Three D's music library:
Monte Video Hypnosis Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang (mini-LP Aust 1984)
Virgin & Rumour Stranger Virgin & Rumour (Aust 2004)
Voice Of The Beehive I Walk The Earth (UK/US 45 1986)
Craig Collinge Free The Sugar Plump Fairies / Tchaikovsky's Electric Revolution Evolution 2 Revolution (Aust 2011)
Guru Guru Oxymoron Kanguru (Germany 1972)
Patti Smith & Joe Brooks You Light Up My Life (US TV 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQPo
Flying Lizards TV Flying Lizards (UK 1979)
Flo & Eddie Guns Moving Targets (US 1976)
Hermans Hermits Here Comes The Star (45, UK 1969)
Grass Roots Let's Live For Today (45, US 1967) RIP lead singer Rob Grill
McPhee Out To Lunch McPhee (Aust 1971)
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