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Another  jumble of genres and eras was exposed for your listening pleasure again this week by your hosts, Michael Hunter and Peter Brat... from rare Australian 60’s singles such as the Union’s tribute to a Melbourne discotheque, through a batch of songs for fans of Northern Soul from the likes of Tommy Hunt and Eartha Kitt, to some surfabilly courtesy of Continental magazine... and from the European beat of the Shake Spears to psychedelia from Indonesia and Iran, with some New Orleans voodoo from Dr John, the Night Tripper on the side! We dug into the 3D Radio Library for J, our “letter of the week” and also played some tracks in tribute to the late Jackie Levens ...

..... and here is the full playlist.....

the Union – The Thump     (7”single 1965 Melbourne, Australia)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Zip a Dee Doo Dah     (‘On Stage’ EP 1965 Australia)

the Vibrants – The Letter Song     (7”single 1967 Aust.)

the La De Das – Come and Fly with Me     (‘The Happy Prince’ LP 1965 New Zealand)

Sons of the Vegetal Mother – Love is the Law     (‘Garden Party’ EP 1970 Aust.)

Jack Montgomery – Don’t turn your back on me     (7”single 1965 USA)

Tommy Hunt – Just a little taste of your sweet loving     (7”single 1968 USA)

Roy Hamilton – Let the music play     (recorded 1966, released 1997 on ‘Rare, Collectible and Soulful’ CD compilation USA)

Garnet Mimms – It was easier to hurt her     (7”single 1965 USA)

Eartha Kitt – There Comes a Time     (7”single 1965 USA)

         ... 3 Tracks from the ‘Continental’ magazine bonus CD 2004 USA :

   Los Derrumbes – MK 11     (unreleased)

   Pollo Del Mar – Charlie Don’t Surf     (7”single on the MuSick label)

   the Hexxers – Knockin’ on Gravestones     (7”single on the Golly Gee label)

the Bunnys – Moanin’     (7”single 1964 Japan)

the Shake Spears – I Can’t Tell     (7”single 1965 Belgium)

Doll By Doll – Caritas     (‘Doll By Doll’ LP 1981 UK)

Jackie Leven – Call Mother a Lonely Field     (‘The Mystery of Love is greater than the Mystery of Death’ CD 1994 UK)

Robert Wyatt – At Last I am Free     (7”single 1980 UK)

Johnny Average Band – Ch-Ch-Cherie     (‘Some People’ LP 1980 USA)  *

the Jumpers – Girl and Toy     (‘Galimatias Amoureaux’ EP 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)  *

Jock Hobbs League – Your Charm is Fictional     (demo 2005 Adelaide)  *

Robert James – Painted Room     (‘Suzanna Suite’ CD 1999 Australia)  *

AKA – Suez War     (‘Hard Beat : 1971-1977 anthology’ CD compilation 2011 Indonesia)

Kourosh Yaghmaei – Ashiooneh     (‘Back from the Brink : Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran 1973-79’  CD compilation 2011)

Dr John, the Night Tripper – Familiar Reality     (‘The Sun, Moon and Herbs’ LP 1971 USA)

Web – Love You     (‘i Spider’ LP 1970 UK)

the Pacifics – Slowly But Surely     (7”single 1964 Australia)

     *    ‘Letter of the Week’