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Beginning again with a clutch of 60’s Australian rarities, including the 1961 collaboration of Vicky Simms, a 13-year-old indigenous boy, with perennial instrumental band, the Joyboys, an unreleased recording by Procession and a great Tony Worsley single, this week’s presenters, the Cat and the Brat, ranged through time and place, vinyl and CD, to bring you the late 70’s/early 80’s electronic delights of Ultravox! and the Human League, some Finnish psychedelia from Eero Koivistoinen and a couple of tracks from the classic 1981 film “Urgh! A Music War”. We raided the extensive 3D Radio Library to pick random G selections for our regular “Letter of the Week” feature, which included the Welsh sunshine pop of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and a children’s song by Professor Elliot Gnash, and ending this week’s episode with the Dandy Warhols take on the Cure....

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

the Echomen – Ski Run     (7”single 1963 Australia)

Chris Hall and the Torquays – Don’t ask me why     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Procession – I Love My Dog [Cat Stevens cover]     (unreleased : from ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Australia)

Vicky Simms and the Joyboys – I wanna bop     (7”single 1961 Australia)

Tony Worsley and the Fabulous Blue Jays – How Can It Be     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Blue Day     (7”single 1964 Australia)

the Godz – Turn On     (‘Contact High With the Godz’ LP 1966 USA)

Galliard – Ask for Nothing     (‘New Dawn’ LP 1971 UK)

Eero Koivistoinen – Small Games inside an Urban Limousine     (1968 – taken from ‘Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie and Underground Music 1967-1974’ CD compilation 2006 Finland)

Kim Fowley – Strangers from the Sky     (7”single 1967 USA)

Hans Poulson – Comin’ Home the Long Way     (‘Lost and Found’ LP 1972 Australia)

Shel Silverstein – Have another Expresso     (‘Inside Folk Songs’ LP 1962 USA)

the Human League – WXJL Tonight     (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)

Kollectiv – Rambo Zambo     (‘Kollectiv’ LP 1973 Germany)

Ultravox! – The man who dies everyday     (‘Ha! Ha! Ha!’ LP 1977 UK)

Klaus Nomi – Total Eclipse     (recorded 1980 NYC – taken from ‘Urgh! A Music War’ double-LP compilation 1981 USA)

the Au Pairs – Come Again     (recorded 1980 London – from ‘Urgh! A Music War’)

Green On Red – Death and Angels     (‘Green On Red’ EP 1982 USA)

the Rain Parade – You are my friend     (‘Explosions in the Glass Palace’ LP 1984 USA)

the Long Ryders – Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today     (‘State of our Union’ 1986 USA)

Thee Wylde Maniacs – Why (love ain’t fair)     (7” single 1966 USA – taken from ‘Bam Caruso Waxworks Vol. 1’ compilation CD)

George W. Bush – El Dorado     (split 7” EP with the St Alban Kids 2003 Adelaide, Australia)   #

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Miss Trudy      (‘Llanfwrog’ EP 1998 Wales, UK)   #

Professor Elliot Gnash – It’s Heaps Good in the Garden     (‘The most groovy album ever’ 2004 Adelaide, Australia)   #

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Dead-Beat     (‘Willoughby Beach’ 2011 Australia)   #

Redd Cross – Disco Bitch     (‘Jimmy’s Fantasy’ cdEP 1993 USA)

the Dandy Warhols – Primary [Cure cover]     (‘NME: Picture This - a tribute to the Cure’ CD 2009 UK)

       # “Letter of the Week”