Obscured By...

Well, it’s RADIOTHON time again, where you (the listeners) can do your bit to keep us on-air and playing all this fine, but largely forgotten or  ignored, music. Whether you live here in Adelaide or  in Addis Ababa, just go to www.threedradio.com and subscribe to this very unique all-volunteer music radio station. We come to you in various formats... locally on the fm band at 93.7, on digital and streaming on the internet... so tune in, and if you like what you hear, subscribe! This week’s ‘DOTS’ were Michael Hunter & Peter Brat and we played our favourite mix of rarities and obscurities, ranging from Adelaide outfits like the Twilights and Smokestack Lightning, to Tiny Tim, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and the Dave Clark 5 (whose music is strangely VERY hard to get hold of). We also featured two of Australia’s greatest vocalists, Wendy Saddington (from her new CD reissue with lots of bonus stuff!) and Lynne Randell (from an American-release-only single). We raided the T sections of 3D Radio’s 70,000-plus CD and vinyl library for our ’letter of the week random-pick’ segment, again finding some forgotten gems in the process! And we finished with a song from the brilliant Korean guitarist, Shin Joong Hyun, who made great psych rock music and was persecuted by an authoritarian government in a similar way to America’s treatment of Roky Erikson, but with a better outcome... he’s one of only about half a dozen guitarists to have a ‘signature’ guitar made by Fender!... check him out on the ‘net!

..... anyway, here is the full playlist.....

the Cleves – Work Out     (‘Cleves’ LP 1970 New Zealand/Australia)

Smokestack Lightning – Mellow Down Easy     (‘Don’t Nobody Know’ LP 1975 Adelaide, Aust.)

Company Caine – Dr Chop     (‘Dr Chop’ LP 1975 Aust.)

the Wild Colonials – Roses are Red     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

the Twilights – Bare Footin’     (‘Twilight Time’ LP 1967 Adelaide)

Lynne Randell – An Open Letter     (7”single 1968 Aust/US)

Wendy Saddington – Looking Through a Window [7”single 1971]     (‘Wendy Saddington & Copperwine – Live’ LP 1972 Australia : taken from the CD reissue with bonus tracks)

the Tourists – Talk to Me     (‘Luminous Basement’ LP 1979 UK)

TuTu Z – The Strange     (7”single 1985 Adelaide)

Frank Turner – Reasons not to be an Idiot     (Love, Ire, and Song)

Spectrum – Take your Time     (Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows 1994 UK)

Spectrum – Superbody     (‘Part One: Spectrum’ LP 1971 Australia)

Tiny Tim – the Other Side     (‘God Bless Tiny Tim’ LP 1968 US)

Craig Collinge – Rock Paper Metal     (Evolution 2 Revolution)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – In The Arena     (‘Volume 2’ LP 1967)

the Who – Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand [alt. version]     (‘The Who Sell Out’ LP 1967 UK – reissue CD with bonus tracks)

the Blue Swede – Hooked on a feeling     (‘Explosive Hits’ LP 1974)

the Monkees – Zilch     (‘Headquarters’ LP 1967 US)

the Monkees – No Time     (‘Headquarters’ LP 1967 US)

the Dave Clark 5 – Bits & Pieces     (the Hits)

Shin Joong Hyun – The Man Who Must Leave     (‘Beautiful Rivers & Mountains’ 1969 South Korea)

Technicolour Dreaming

Finally, the Cat & the Brat are back presenting the whole show together... so it’s a mix of favourites, like the Byrds and Golden Triangle, new releases, including tracks from Like Leaves, the Penny Dreadfuls and Wooden Shjips, plus a few ‘lost’ classics from bands such as the Outsiders, the Chocolate Watchband and the Essex Green. Of course we finished with a track from our current ‘Album of the Month’ by Australia’s Sand Pebbles... and don’t forget that 3D Radio’s annual RADIOTHON is on during August, from the 19th until the 28^th, so next week we will be having our ‘Radiothon Special’!

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

the Byrds – Mr Spaceman     (‘Fifth Dimension’ LP 1966 US)

the Beatles – She Said, She Said     (‘Revolver’ LP 1966 UK)

the Misunderstood – Children of the Sun     (7”single 1969 UK – taken from ‘Dirty Water 2’ compilation)

Friends – Choose your Words     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Like Leaves – Like Leaves     (Like Leaves)

the Essex Green – Bald     (Essex Green EP 1999 US)

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Ruby Bland     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones     (pre-release from ‘West’ album)

the Penny Dreadfuls – She Put the Baby in the Microwave     (the Penny Dreadfuls)

the Barbarellatones – Mommy’s Gone Insane     (Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute)

the Cramps – Goo Goo Muck     (‘Psychedelic Jungle’ LP 1979 US)

Zombina & the Skeletones – Nobody Loves You (when you’re dead)     (demo 2004 US)

Zombie Ghost Train – Girl U Want     (Glad Rags & Body Bags)

Devilish Presley – Hammer Horror Glamour     (CD single 2005 UK)

Golden Triangle – Blood & Arrow     (Double Jointer)

Molten Universe – 1323 B.C.     (The Green Ray)

the Outsiders – Prisonsong     (‘CQ’ LP 1968 Holland)

Q65 – I was Young     (Nothing but Trouble 1966-68)

the Chocolate Watchband – No Way Out     (7”single 1966 US)

Ride Into The Sun – Drown Your Soul     (Rats, Thieves & Liars)

the Sand Pebbles – Because I Could     (Dark Magic)    #

    #  ‘Album of the Month’

Obscured By...

There were two ‘DOTS’ back in the studio this week, Michael Hunter and Peter Brat... and again, a big ‘thank you’ to last week’s ‘honorary DOT’, Tim K., who ably filled in for us with yet another take on the obscurities we love! And this week, it was with a gallic tinge... with a group of  francophone recordings of the 60’s from France and Canada. There was the usual spread of Australian and local rarities, a couple of American garage ragers and a track by the Aztecs, who were NOT of the Billy Thorpe of Australia variety, as the liner notes to the compilation we found it in suggested, but rather, were a band from Toronto in Canada, who recorded the single in the UK under the auspices of  British  popstars,  ‘Peter & Gordon’, during their stay in London in 1964-65... this new information came to us via a review of “what’s happening in Toronto”  in a 1965 issue of BillBoard magazine... another mystery solved by your intrepid DOTS! We picked a few random songs from the vast 3D library by bands whose name started with a “U” as part of our on-going ‘blind pick by alphabet’ segment... and of course, we finished with some surf music and an interesting radio-only version of ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ by Australian legends, the Strangers, from 1967... all very rare, obscure and often strange!....

....so here is the full playlist...

Wendy Saddington – Tomorrow Never Knows     (‘Live 1972’)

Lynn Rogers – Fresh Start     (7”single 1965 Australia)

Why – Percy Grainger     (‘Present Tense’ LP 1970 Australia)

Yvonne Barrett – May my heart be cast into stone     (from ‘UpTight’ TV show 1969 Australia)

Sullivan – Hashish Faction     (7”single 1966 France)

Les Papyvores – Le Papyvore     (7”single 1967 France)

Laura Ulmer – Amoreaux d’une Affiche     (7”single 1967 Canada)

Le Bain Didonc – 4 Cheveaux dans le vent     (‘Le Bain Didonc’ EP 1967 France)

Les 5 Gentlemen – Si tu reviens chez moi     (7” single 1966 Marseilles, France)

Empty Vessels – Low Toby     (‘Incredible Sound Show Stories Vol 16’ : compilation)

Revolver – Imagination     (‘Incredible.....’ : comp.)

Peter Holm – You will be mine     (‘Incredible.....’ : comp.)

Ray Brown & Moonstone – Run Sylvie Run     (‘Mad House’ LP 1971 Australia)

 *** ‘blind pick by alphabet’ section... this week brought by the letter U....

the Untouchables – I spy for the FBI     (‘Wild Child’ LP 1985 UK)

Underminers – Let’s Get T-shirts made     (‘Let’s get T-shirts Made’ 2002 Australia)

James Blood Ulmer – Are you glad to be in America?     (7”single 1980 US)

Hopscotch – In the rain     (Island Sons)

801 – Fat Lady of Limbourg     (‘801 Live’ bonus disc : rehearsal recording 1976 UK)

Earth – Engine of Ruin     (The Bee Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull)

the Aztecs – Summertime Blues     (7”single 1965 Canada/UK – from ‘MindRocker’ #8 : comp.)

Larry Wilson & Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson & Kaleidoscope – Nobody      (7”single 1967 US)

John Kay & the Sparrows – Twisted     (7”single 1966 US)

the Atlantics – Point Zero     (Point Zero)

the Ultra 5 – Love for tomorrow     (Denizons of Dementia)

the 9^th Wave – Time Tunnel     (Time Tunnel)

the Strangers – Magical Mystery Tour     (recorded for the Australian Army Public Relations Directorate for use by radio stations in 1967)

Obscured By...August 2 2011

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)