The first volume of songs from the Don Lane Show’s backing singers…
LP Title: Touch Me In The Morning
Perfomed by Patchwork
Category: Easy Listening
Label: Hammard
Catalogue Number HAM 049
Entered the charts: 28/7/80 – Highest position 75, weeks in chart: 4
Engineered by John French
produced by Ross Burton
Cover Design: Michael Findley
Photography: Barry Bell
Cover photo taken at the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Recorded at TCS Studios, Richmond
Side 1 Tracks 1 and 6 Arranged by Peter Sullivan, Side 1, tracks 2-5, track 8 and Side 2 tracks 3 and 5 Arranged by Ross Burton, Side 2 Track 1 arranged by Peter Hocking, Side 2 track 2 arranged by Charlie Gauld and Side 2, tracks 4 and 6-8 arranged by Allen Deak
The Musicians:
David Hirschfelder: Piano, Don Stevenson: Guitar, Gordon Mattheson: Guitar, Jeremy Alsop: Bass, David Jones: Drums, Adrian Paine: Percussion and Bill Harrower: Saxophone
Side 1
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Dance With me
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Chanson D’Amour
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This Will Be
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Something’s Missing
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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
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This Boy (Girl)
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Make It Easy On Yourself
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Do That To Me One More Time
Side 2
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Mahogany
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If You Leave Me Now
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If I Ever Lose This Heaven
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Touch Me In The Morning
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I Just Fall In Love Again
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We’re All Alone
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Torn Between Two Lovers
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You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
©MCMLXXX, Hammard TV Productions
The Don Lane Show’s backing singers in their debut (and sadly only) LP, performing songs originally performed by The Captain and Tennille, Michael Jackson and more.
Daryl, Ossie and the Hey Hey gang return for their second outing.
LP Title: Keep Smiling with Daryl and Ossie
Starring Daryl Somers, Ernie (Ossie Ostrich) Carroll and John Blackman
Category: Childrens/Comedy
Label: Hammard
Catalogue Number: HAM 013
Written and Produced by Daryl Somers and Ernie Carroll
Engineering: Bruce Adderley
Special Effects by Murray Tregonning
Additional Character Voices by Daryl Somers and John Blackman
Arranger and Musical Director: Doug Trevor with the Margot Sheridan Junior Chorus
Cover photography: Barrie Bell (not credited)
Gatefold Cover Art: Ernie Carroll (not credited)
Recorded at Bruce Adderley Sound Studios
Ossie Ostrich ©Media Features Services T.M. A267936
©MCMLXXVI, Hammard Recording Company (Hammard TV Productions, P/L)
Side 1
- Daryl Can, Ossie Can
- The Pirate’s Treasure (or “Voyage to the Bottom of the Bay”)
- Walkin’ in the Sunshine
- The Truth About Jack and the Beanstalk (or “Look Mum, no Hands!”. Including the songs “Baked Bean Blues” and “Rock A Bye Baby”)
Side 2
- Fred Alias “Superfly”
- Being Pink
- Storyland Newsbeat
- Sing
- Three Little Pigs (or “Coming to Blows with a Wolf”)
- Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight?
The second “Hey, Hey” LP, with more sketches and songs
Both LP’s highlighted in the last week were huge sellers selling in excess of 50,000 copies each (both of them gold status at that time)
The next time the HHIS gang would appear together on vinyl would be the 1988 LP “The Great Aussue Joke” (which I highlighted back here)
In honour of Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday’s return to TV next week, tonight, I’m presenting the first of the two LP’s starring Daryl Somers and Ernie (Ossie Ostrich) Carroll
LP Title: Hey! Hey! It’s Daryl and Ossie
Starring Daryl Somers and Ernie (Ossie Ostrich) Carroll, with John Blackman
category: Childrens/Comedy
Label: Hammard
Catalogue Number: HAM 005
Credits:
Written and Produced by Daryl Somers and Ernie Carroll
Engineers: Bruce Adderley and Murray Tregonning
Special Effects: Murray Tregonning
Additional Character Voices: Daryl Somers and John Blackman
Arranger and Musical Director: Doug Trevor and the Margo Sheridan Junior Chorus
Recorded at Bruce Adderley Sound Studios
Ossie Ostrich ©Media Feature Services T.M. A267936
©MCMLXXV, Hammard Recording Company (Hammard TV Productions)
Side 1
- Welcome
- Pedro the Donkey
- The Truth about Goldilocks and the 3 Bears (including “Here Comes Ossie Ostrich”)
- Gonna Be An Engineer
- Jungle Safari
- Purple People Eater
Side 2
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Sound Effects Machine (including “We Love You Ossie”)
- I Love Mickey Mouse
- Division Saturday
- Country Radio (including the songs “The Dog Sits on the Tucker Box, 5 Miles from Gundagai”, “Along the Road to Gundagai” and “Click Go the Shears”)
- Puff The Magic Dragon
- Happy Birthday
“Fantastic! Outstanding! Spectacular!”
Just a few of the words to describe the monumental achievement captured for all time. We congratulate the Hammard Recording Company on it’s foresight in recognising the incredible potential of the duo, destined to be acclaimed as the greatest stars in the firmamemt of Australian entertainment.
Daryl and Ossie
The first volume of songs and sketches incorporating many of the shows early characters (at least one of them, is now a bit too un-pc – Charlie Who).
One of the gags on this LP is referenced on the sequel Volume “Keep Smiling with Daryl and Ossie” (this LP will be posted sometime after the show’s start (sometime after 7:30 PM next Wednesday night))
BTW, the first of the Spike Jones RCA LP’s will appear between now and next Wednesday
tonight, I would like to end 2009 with the first of a regular posting of record labels ((or, at least more regular than it was this year) and probably the first of the hard to read labels, more of which will appear in a later post)
the first of the galleries is for TV promotional record label Hammard (which was in operation between 1974 and 1990)
below is the first label (which appeared on Hammard’s releases from 1974 until about 1979)
The label’s design remained the same (although I have seen the label in either pink (as it was for the 1976 LP “Keep Smiling with Daryl and Ossie”) or blue (as it was for Sally’s second and final LP “A Day in A Life”)
by 1981, Hammard’s second label appeared (and is the first candidate for the first ‘Hard To Read’ label design (despite it’s patriotic design of green and gold.)
finally, the label introduced it’s third label design (which appeared on all Hammard releases from around 1982 until 1990)
For the history of Hammard, please go here
And now, something for the holidays…
Performed by the Joe Dolce Music Theatre
Label: Hammard TV Productions
Category: Holiday
Release Number: HAM 065
Produced and Directed by Steve Tyrell
Arranged and Conducted by Chris Dedrick
Starring Joe Dolce as Guiseppi
Guest Stars: Mary Wilson as The Supremes and Joey Perrone as Little Guiseppi (Courtesy of Television House)
Engineers: Ian McKenzie, Robin Gray, Paul Reeve, Jim Burton and Scott Henning
Catering: Bande-Aide Catering
Art Direction: Paul Pantelis
Cartoon Illustration: Neil Curtis
Released: November, 1981
Side 1: Christmas In Australia, I Saw Mommy (Mama) Kissing Santa Claus, Blue Christmas, This Time Of The Year, Christmas Medley: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, Frosty The Snowman, Here Comes Santa Claus, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Winter Wonderland, The Little Drummer Boy, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (reprise)
Side 2: Jingle Bell Rock, Christmas At Our House, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Silent Night, Open Your Heart
This 1981 LP contains a huge collection of Christmas songs by the now seemingly forgotten Joe Dolce (who the previous year had a monster smash hit with the song “Shaddup You Face”. That single became the most successful single released in Australia (taking in sales of 375,000 copies) beating the previous record holder, The Two Man Band’s AFL anthem “Up There Cazaly” by 125,000)
The LP is a mix of poplar carols (Silent Night) major Christmas hits (Blue Christmas) and some originals (Christmas in Australia). My favourtie track on this LP is the Italian flavoured version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.
This song (and “Christmas in Australia”) was also released as a single by Polygram.
Record: The Great Aussie Joke – Maurie Fields and Shane Bourne
Record Label: Hammard
Catalogue Number: HAM 186
Category: Comedy
Also appearing on the LP (not credited, Daryl Somers, Ernie (Ossie Ostrich) Carroll and John Blackman)
Compiled by The Terrace Audio Productions P/L
Engineered by Helen Patullo
Assistant Producer: Suzee Robin
Compiled from “The Great Aussie Joke” Segment of “Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday” – 1988
Released: December 1988 (21 years ago this week, to be precice)
Side 1
The Telegram, Vacuum Salesman, Piggyback, Fingers, The Teacher, The Drunk and the Elephant, The Drover’s Dog, Bath Survey, Australia Post, The Clothesline, What’s Your Name?, The Five Ton Truck, The Gorilla and the Lion, The Barnyard, Ring Back in 10 Minutes, Snakes, Kids on Horses, the Three Hut Island, “The T-Model, the Porsche and the Ferrari”, The Quiz, The Queen of Egypt, Keep Peddaling, The Army Hospital, The Smartest Man in Australia, The Male Sexuality Survey, The Opening Batsman, Two Caterpillars, The Three Legged Chook, How Big is Your Property, Hey Hey It’s Saturday Go To Heaven.
Side 2
The Black Horse, Thanks Donkey, Warrick Capper, The Maternity Hospital, Three Men in Heaven, Explain Yourself, The Diagnosis, The Country Club, Monk It Up!, King of the Jungle, The Farmer, The Fancydress Cow, The Golf Game, The Bald Man, Penguins, The Jewish Flat Hunter, Fluffy the Cat, Three Men and a Firing Squad, David Jones Menswear Dept., Half A Lettuce, The Pet, At The Movies, The Freezer, E. D. K. T. M., Old School Friends, A Man on the Sun, Sulphuric Acid, Geronimo, God Will Save Me, Private Johnson.
60 jokes sent in by viewers from “The Great Aussie Joke” Segment from Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday. (A “Best of 1988″ collection, so to speak)
This was (to date) the only recording of material taken from the show that has appeared commercially.
on a technical note: This LP was one of the last recordings that was released by Hammard, as the company ceased operations around January 1990.
A 100% Australian owned TV record label, which was in operation from 1975 until 1989.
Unlike companies like K-Tel, the majority of Hammard’s releases were original releases (not relying on previously released material, although they would produce a compilation once in a while)
People who released records under this label included The Seekers, Daryl Somers (of which I’ll have more later on), Don Lane, The Sundowners, and many others.
The company originally started operations as the Hammard Recording Company, changing their name to Hammard TV productions around 1977.
Today, the owner of Hammard back catalogue of recordings is not known.
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the most hard to read record label?
Posted by Bruce on January 8, 2010 in Comments with No Comments
The title says it all for my first poll in the “off the record” blog
Most of these labels had an eye catching design, but it usually meant it would be at the expense of the legibitilty of the label
Before I get stuck into this poll, I have learned that scanning labels usually ended up making the labels lighter (and as a result easier to read. I have now since learned to fix the colour balance)
the first (and oldest) label in the collection is the original His Masters Voice (HMV) label that was used from the 1940′s until the early 1960′s by EMI
the original label was a darker burgundy colour than this.
It’s actually more pronounced on 78′s from the 1940′s, as this label proves below
THE CARINIA COMPANY (1947-1987)
founded by Polish immigrants in 1947, and originally released recordings from Poland. The company expanded it’s catalogue to include classical music and recordings from New Zealand based Viking Records and of course, Audio Fidelity
for nearly all of it’s LP releases this was the colour combo used (red and silver. Although I have in my collection a version of this label in Black and Gold)
image number three comes from the Mercury Record catalogue.
This label dates from around 1981, and yes it’s the single “Stars on 45″
PYE’S PLUM LABEL
this one is a very rare label (as Pye did have offices in Australia in the 1950′s before the distribution was taken over by Astor). when Astor took over the distribution, it would be released under Astor’s Gold Series. So labels like these are rare.
While I’m at it, here is Pye’s successor, PRT (after the license was not renewed by Pye in 1980)
(note to self: never use black text on a red and green label design
Late last year, I posted the label gallery of Hammard, and I noted about the “Aussie” label design. (in case you missed it, here it is:)
New addition: I have decided to add this now as I forgot to add this in the original post. Here is WEA’s Australian Label from the early 80′s
And finally, the record label of Hollywood studio MGM (this was used from the late 60′s until the mid 70′s when the label was merged with the Polydor catalogue (the Yin Yang seems OK, but was a little bit too dark-ish.))
this is the final list. Are any of these labels seem to be a little bit hard to read, or can you think of something I may have missed? If I have, post your suggestion in the comments below.
The poll is now open, and will remain open until 23:59 on New Years Eve 2010 (Australian Eastern Standard Time, 1:59 AM for the southern states (NSW, Vic., Tas.)
BTW, you can vote two labels if you so wish.
Tags: Carinia, EMI, Hammard, PolyGram, PRT, Warner