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Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It) by Daddy Dewdrop

Posted by Bruce on July 5, 2010 in Misc, Rock with No Comments

Yep, I’m posting a hit song that originally was from “The Groovie Goolies”

Single Title: Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It)/John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith

Performed by Dick (Daddy Dewdrop) Monda

Label: $tateside label of EMI records (Yep, the dollar sign was part of the Stateside logo)

Catalogue Numbers OSS 9495 (Australia) and MSS 2312 (New Zealand) (originally released on the Sunflower Label: catalogue Number 105)

Category: Pop/Misc

Entered the Australian singles Chart 31/5/71, Highest Position: 10, weeks in chart: 19

Produced by Dick Monda and Don Scarotta for Quantum Productions

Side 1

Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It)

Side 2

John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith

This was the chart-topping single from Filmation’s Groovie Goolies.

This was the second big hit that the studio’s song composers and producers had (the first one was the Archies chart topper “Sugar Sugar” (under the direction of Don Kirshner)

This song (Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jus’ Love It)) was under the direction of Goolies song producer Dick Monda (who appeared under the moniker “Daddy Dewdrop”)

It would be Filmation’s final chart topping hit. Executive Producers Norm Prescott and Lou Scheimer would try again with the Paramount Records release “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” (of which I profiled last year here.)

Galaxy presents the Best of Abba Songs

Posted by Bruce on May 8, 2010 in Rock with No Comments

Here is a collection of Abba songs performed by a cover group.

LP Title: Galaxy Presents The Best of Abba Songs

Label: EMS (Wonder Disc)

Catalogue Number: DA 7138

Category: Rock

Disc 1, Side 1

S.O.S.
Dance While the Music Still Goes On
Honey, Honey
He Is Your Brother
Fernando
Waterloo

Disc 1, Side 2

Ring, Ring
I Do, I Do, I Do
Mamma Mia
Hasta Manana
Rock Me
I’ve Been Waiting for You

Record 2, Side 1

Arrival
Why Did it Have To Be Me?
That’s Me
My Love, My Life
When I Kissed the Teacher
Dum Dum Diddle

Record 2, Side 2

Tiger
Money, Money, Money
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Name of the Game
Take a Chance on Me.

A two disc set of Abba’s hits performed by cover group Galaxy.

No further comment is needed.

Bette Davis Eyes from “Chipmunk Rock”

Posted by Bruce on May 2, 2010 in Childrens, Rock with No Comments

A single from left field

Hot on the success of the revival of The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., had Simon, Theodore and Alvin sing a collection of major Rock hits.

In this case, it was Carly Simon’s Bette Davis Eyes and Heartbreaker (I do not know who was the original performer. E-mail me to help me identify the performer.)

This was the single from the LP Chipmunk Rock

Single title: Bette Davis Eyes b/w Heartbreaker

Performed by the Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore)

Label: RCA

Catalogue Number 104012

Produced by Janice Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

Category: Rock/Childrens

This is the first time that the Chipmunks had released a single from an LP since the 1960′s (if there were others, let me know)

My copy was a little bit different as someone at RCA had blundered

The label on side 1 was only a blank (with no production info at all, I ended up writing on the label. Side 2 had all the record info

the stuff that was blanked out on the bottom half had my old address in inner Sydney, and was removed to protect the innocent.

If memory serves me right, all the copies they had at the store I bought this had the same “deficiency” which was a rarity.

Beatle Barkers

Posted by Bruce on March 1, 2010 in Rock, What the?... with No Comments

Here now, is the LP that was inspired by the Virgin Records release, Baa-Baa Black Sheep

Record Title: Beatle Barkers

“Performed” by the Woofers and Tweeters Ensemble

Label: Telmak Teleproducts

Category: Rock/What the…?

Catalogue Number TMAK 091

Entered the LP Charts: 9/5/83, Highest Position: 37, Weeks in Chart: 6

Produced and Arranged by Roy Nicholson

Engineered by John Pal (I don’t make up these names, folks!)

Recorded at Red Face Studios, Sydney

Cover Design by Fox Marketing

Side 1

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Love Me Do

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

We Can Work It Out

I Saw Here Standing There

I Feel Fine

Side 2

Can’t Buy Me Love

All My Loving

Day Tripper

She Loves You

Hard Days Night

Paperback Writer

What could be sillier than a group of singing sheep? Telmak gave us the answer in this Barking Mad volume of Beatles songs ‘sung’ by dogs.

TBH, I have only heard the first three tracks on this LP, and have not played this since.

Mercifully, this was the final record of this type ever attempted.

the Dr. Dan Theme (MMM radio network jingle)

Posted by Bruce on January 10, 2010 in Rock with No Comments

Now here’s something unusual, a commercial release of a radio station’s jingle

Title: Dr. Dan’s Theme/1990

performed by Dieter Kleeman

Record Label: Festival/Mushroom

Catalogue Number K 10235

Produced by Montana Productions

Executive Producer: Hamish Cameron

Engineered by Al Wright

Recorded by Mark Bergin

Photography by Craig Watkins and Jim Walpole

Jacket Design: Laurie McIntyre

Recorded at Pro Image Post, Sydney

For many years, the Dr. Dan theme was regularly used as a jingle for the Triple M radio network.

such was the popularity of the jingle, listeners wanted to know if it would be released as a single.

the station obliged and was released as a single (both as a 45 RPM single and a CD single. for some reason I never bought the CD Single, but ended up buying the 45)

If memory serves me correctly, the proceeds for this single went to charity.