for this LP, we go back to the early part of the 1980’s for a show which first aired in Japan in 1979, and has become a cult classic.
LP: Magic Monkey (soundtrack to the ABC TV series “Monkey” performed by Godiego)
Category: Childrens/Soundtrack
Label: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Records distributed by Festival
Catalogue Number: L 38256
Originally released as YX-5004-AX by Jeniko Music Group, Ltd., Japan
Produced by Johnny Nomura & Godiego by NTV Music Corp.
All songs composed by Mikie Yoshino (Side 1 Tracks 1 and 4 and Side 2 Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5) and Yukihide Takekawa (Side 1 Tracks 2, 3 and 5 and Side 2, tracks 2 and 6)
All lyrics written by Yoko Narahashi
All Songs arranged byMikie Yoshino
Recording Engineers: Keizo Suzuki and Yoshio Miyamoto
Assistant Engineers Teruya Mitzutani, Susumu Mera and Keji Takeuchi
Remix and Mastering: Keizo Suzuki
Sound Co-Ordinator: Steve Fox
Recording Studios: Freedom and Sound City
Management and Co-Ordination by Jenika Music Co., Ltd.
Special Thanks to Japan Foundation, Roland Corporation Australia, Tama Drums and Colleen Ironside
the members of Godiego:
Mikie Yoshino: Keyboards
Yukihide Takekawa: Vocals
Steve Fox: Bass and Vocals
Takami Asano: Guitar
Tommy Snyder: Drums, Vocal and Marimba
Female Vocals:Kayoko Ishu, Midori Umegaki, Sandi A Hohn
Sax Solos: Jake H. Concepcion
All songs Published by Jenika Music Co., Ltd. and MCA Music Australia P/L (Universal Music Publishing Australia, P/L if they still have the music rights today)
Side 1:
- The Birth of the Odyssey/Monkey Magic
- Ghandara
- Asiatic Fever
- We’re Heading Out West to India
- Thank You, Baby
Side 2
- Steppin’ Into Your World
- Havoc in Heaven
- Dragons and Demons
- A Fool
- Flying
- Celebration
The original soundtrack to the Cult Classic “Monkey”.
This LP is probably also notable as being the first LP to be released by the (by 1984 corporatized) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (prior to this, the ABC was a broadcasting commission)
this was not the only release for Godiego in Australia. Concurrent to this release, the ABC also released the opening title music and the series 1 closing theme “Ghandara” as a 45 RPM single.
the label for this release appears below:
(this post took a little longer than I anticipated) 
Coming soon to the blog in early March.
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An explanation: Decca and Columbia
As I’m due to be going on holidays on Monday morning, I have two posts that will appear on the blog during next week (a labels gallery and a childrens rarity, I might do an explanation of releases made by a different branch of a record company. In this case, Decca and Columbia (the story of Columbia records is explained at this post)
Whenever I refer to a recording that was released under EMI’s Columbia label, I will refer to this as a “Columbia EMI” release, while anything that was released in the U,S, will be described as an “CBS Columbia” release (in all cases except for imports, I’ll be calling these CBS releases anyway.)
Any American Decca record release that appears on this blog prior to 1952 would be released by EMI. After 1952, Festival would release all American Decca titles until the latter 60’s (after which the label was re-branded MCA records.) Astor would distribute these titles until 1982, after which WEA (Warner Music) would release their releases until around late 1992
Incidentally American Decca releases from the early 50’s onwards were never released under that label (only under the Festival Label)
British Decca releases (the label above is from the late 1950’s) would continue to be released by EMI until 1979, after which these titles would be released theough PolyGram until 1998 when Universal Music was founded. Later in the year, I’ll post the Decca label from a later era.
That’s all for right now. I’m now on hols. My next post here will appear on Tuesday morning.