Obscured 6: Six, Drugs, & Rock'n'Roll

The Twilights
Medley - Bad Boy / Satisfaction / Yesterday / If She Finds Out / I'm Not Talkin' (various songwriters) 4:52
Raven RVLP 08 1982
Recorded for radio at the Hoadley’s Battle Of The Sounds grand final, Festival Hall, Melbourne, July 1966. Eventually released on the Twilight Time LP in the early 80s.
Python Lee Jackson
Hold On I'm Coming (Porter/Hayes) 2:33
CBS BA-221385 1967
Third single from their original line-up, which split later the same year. The name was revived a couple of years later, with some different members and a certain hit single called In A Broken Dream.
Hans Poulsen
Coming Home Late Again (Poulsen) 2:30
Hans Poulsen
Run Away Children (Poulsen) 3:25
Parlophone A-8606 1968
A pre-Fable solo single - the A-side was a minor hit in Melbourne while the B-side is practically a prototype of the later song Natural High [Obscured 5].
Climax 5
She's Already Spoken For (Wade/Dunn/Aulton) 2:18
Festival FK-2259 1968
B-side to the Gardens single.
Imagination
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Dylan) 2:47
Parlophone/Albert Productions A-8860 1969
Sydney band who had a Top 40 hit in Brisbane with this single. They originally hailed from Wollongong where they were known as The Marksmen (who put out one single Moonshine) but changed their name to Imagination when they re-located to Sydney.
Town Criers
Hey Girl (Marriott/Lane) 2:09
Festival FK-3217 1969
A fine version of the Small Faces song, from the B-side of Love Me Again. A Town Criers Record Production.
Cannery Row
Listen To The Music (Mann-Weill) 2:50
Sweet Peach SP-004 1969
The A-side of this Adelaide band's only single. Nothing much more is known of them nowadays.
Bulldog
Man Of Constant Sorrow (trad) 3:26
Fable FB-038 1970
A-side of the only single from the trio of Mick Rogers (ex-Procession etc), Peter Miles (ex-Bay City Union, Purple Hearts) and Bob Darnes (ex-Purple Hearts). They split when Rogers went to the UK to join Manfred Mann.
Levi Smith’s Clefs
Lisa (Bisset-Jurd) 3:44
Sweet Peach SP-011 1970
Along with stalwart Barrie McAskill, this line-up featured most of what would soon become Fraternity. This song was a single lifted from the Clefs' Empty Monkey LP.
The Rebels
Can You Make It On Your Own (McCarthy/Stott/Williams/Logan/Mason) 4:21
Impact NZ IR-1051 1970
New Zealand band formerly known as Larry's Rebels, featuring Mal Logan and Glyn Mason, who went on to many fine Australian bands such as Chain, Ariel, The Dingoes etc. This single was also released in Australia on Fable.
Frog Hollow
Sungod (Barry J. Falkner) 3:26
Du Monde DMX 11754 1971
From the band's rare soundtrack EP to the surf film Over Under Sideways Down, which was "an explosion of colour and nightmarish imagination" according to the cover!
Heart'n'Soul
Hot Boogie Band (Foster) 3:04
Infinity INK-4086 1971
Title track of this 12-piece band's only LP; also released as a single. They had already split by the time of the album's release in early '71.
Duck
Southern Man (Neil Young) 2:23
Warner Bros WS 20008 1972
Another track from their long unavailable LP Laid, again featuring the vocals of Bobbi Marchini.
Brenda Kristen
Jealous Guy (Lennon) 4:04
His Master's Voice EA-9947 1972
AKA Brenda Glover, ex-Aesop's Fables. This single was produced by Rod Coe and arranged by Ayers Rock's Col Loughnan.
Headband
Stay With Me (Mauri Berg) 3:31
Polydor 2079 017 1973
Taken from the Adelaide band's rare LP A Song For Tooley; also the B-side of the Country Lady single. Band members included Chris Bailey (a later Angel) and Peter Head.
Bilgola Bop Band
Neighbours (S.Brien/C.Davis) 3:32
Infinity L36138 1976
Taken from the soundtrack LP of another surf film Highway One. This song is probably the band's only recording; Alex Smith (gtr, vcls) and Andrew Thompson (sax) later went to Moving Pictures.
Stars
With A Winning Hand (Eastick) 2:17
Stars
Drift Away (Eastick/Pealing) 2:30
Mushroom K-6531 1976
Both sides of their second single, though neither song made it to a Stars album.
The Fabulaires
The Remedy (Burt) 3:46
Rough Diamond RDM 8802 1981
From their only recording, the 12" EP Apocalypso. The band featured Wayne Burt (ex-Jo Jo Zep) who sings lead on this track, Greg Champion and John James Hackett (who left to join Mondo Rock). Singer Jo Moore died between the album's recording and release.
Burwood Blues Band
San Andreas (presumably Rudd) 4:18
c.1987
One of Mike Rudd & Bill Putt's lesser-known bands, far more synth-pop than blues! This demo may have been released on cassette at the time. Manny Paterakis on drums was another known member of the band.
Easybeats
Coke Jingle, 1960s 1:09
The Young Australians narrated by Rex Heading
Shadow Valley & Iron Triangles 3:22
(Festival c .1968)
Redneck nationalistic track from the man who brought you Humphrey B. Bear. #1 in hometown Adelaide, but apparently airplay stopped quickly when public opinion changed on the Vietnam war.

Compiled 2005.