VA - The Kiwi Music Scene 1970 (2 x CDs)

KIWI ROCK

VA - The Kiwi Music Scene 1970 [2023] (2 x CDs)

This is the seventh volume in Frenzy's ongoing series of year-by-year compilations of New Zealand music: 53 tracks and a thousand stories, representing 65% of all local 45rpm releases.

Throughout the 60s, New Zealand had always been three to six months behind overseas music and fashion. By 1970 we were virtually on a par with the overseas scene. There was now a wider musical gap as the rock became heavier and the pop became poppier. The teens that had grown up and lived through the sixties were now young adults and were generally looking for something else, there was a lot to pick from as Rock fused itself with everything from Country to Jazz. Meanwhile the next generation, that had grown up in the shadows of their older brothers and sisters hadn't finished with Pop music just yet while Mums and Dads were still lapping up anything that could be sung along to.

The industry was changing fast with hair getting longer, music getting louder and albums now out selling 45s. It was a good year for local albums albeit the four most notable releases Human Instinct's Burning Up Years, and Stoned Guitar, Gray Bartlett's Fijian Girl and The Underdogs Wasting Our Time were all released as $1.99 budget albums at a time when the retail album price was $4.99, which lead to many people buying because of price and not content, but at least it gave local groups a higher profile and an outlet for their music.

It was a year when many of the top local groups from the previous years split-up as the winds of change enveloped the music scene, including The Chicks, The Dedikation, The Challenge, The Revival, Tom Thumb and The Rebels, while a new crop of Rock groups rose from the ashes including Farmyard, Highway, Rebirth which left one journalist to comment on the new groups as 'NEW NAMES-SAME FACES'. After several years of being Wellington's best kept secret, Quincy Conserve finally stepped out from the shadows on the back of one of the best local singles of the year Ride the Rain a song written by Bruno Lawrence. Bruno is inextricably linked to the group, but he only joined in April and was gone by Christmas.

There had been a drop in new local releases (for various reasons) from the previous year's prominent labels, Zodiac, Impact, Viking, and Allied International etc. Several smaller independent labels sprung up throughout the year Ventura, Climax, Odessa and Pink but like Bruno with Quincy Conserve they were also gone by Christmas. HMV was the only label to regularly release local records throughout the year and beyond and were responsible for nearly half of all local Pop and Rock releases during 1970 (36 approx.).

Kiwis embraced the overseas revival of fifties Rock n Roll culminating in our very own 'King Of Rock & Roll", Johnny Devlin rerecording his 1958 smash Lawdy Miss Clawdy while The Dizzy Limit recorded a pulsating version of Little Richards Good Golly Miss Molly and the Big-O kept the music alive with Hot Rod. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD01

01 Challenge - The Crunch 2:51

02 Fourmyula - Otaki 2:51

03 Quincy Conserve - Ride The Rain 2:51

04 Max Merritt & The Meteors - Western Union Man 3:53

05 Hayden Wood - Ballad Of A Well Known Gun 3:55

06 Human Instinct - I Think I'll Go Back Home 3:17

07 Farmyard - Learning 'bout Living 3:14

08 Zonk - Heya 3:46

09 Shane - Get It Together 3:08

10 Rebirth - All Right Now 3:52

11 Classic Affair - My Little Red Book 2:44

12 Roger Skinner & The Motivation - Sour Milk Sea 3:22

13 Johnny Devlin - Lawdy Miss Claudy 70 2:02

14 Allison Durbin - Golden Days 3:02

15 Adderley Walker Movement - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is 3:09

16 Lee Grant - A Little Love And Understanding 3:03

17 In-Betweens - Boom-Sha-La-La-Lo 3:02

18 Kal-Q-Lated Risk - I'll Be Home (In A Day Or So) 2:29

19 Craig Scott - Let's Get A Little Sentimental 2:41

20 Nash Chase - What Greater Love 2:10

21 Tongues - Take Me To The Pilot 3:36

22 Hayden Wood - Sixty Years On 3:12

23 Fourmyula - Turn Your Back On The Wind 3:52

24 Rumour - What Have You Done (To That Day God Gave You) 3:03

25 Lynne Pike - I Think I Just Lost Out 3:11

CD2

01 Fourmyula - Make Me Happy 2:40

02 Quincy Conserve - Everybody Has Their Way 3:55

03 Tongues - Goodbye Holly 2:57

04 Random Thoughts - Melody Fayre 2:05

05 Natural Gas - Come On Down Girl 3:33

06 Adderley Walker Movement - Hooray For The Salvation Army Band 2:55

07 Cleves - You & Me 3:19

08 Dizzy Limit - Wrote A Song For Everyone 2:45

09 Val & Clive - People Are Talking 3:40

10 Chicks - Long Time Comin' 2:55

11 Bunny Walters - The Eyes Of Love 2:32

12 Shane - Natural Man 4:10

13 Maria Dallas - Pinnochio 1:46

14 Lyn Calman - Everybody's Got The Right To Love 1:59

15 Tap Heperi - Love Of The Common People 2:53

16 Grant Wightman - Jennifer Tomkins 1:55

17 Mike Durney - It Ain't Easy 2:37

18 Alan Galbraith - The Old Man 3:37

19 Jimmy Sloggett & The Inn Group - Studio 17 2:09

20 Shirley Kay Angell - Yo Yo 2:26

21 Tom Bradley - Come Fly With Me 2:39

22 Sea Of Tranquility - Gonna Get Along Without You Now 2:06

23 Tommy Adderley - Granny 3:16

24 Chris Parfitt - I Wish I Was A Child 2:18

25 Eugene - Candy 2:42

26 Lyndon Ferris - Serenade To Aboukra 3:27

27 Lost Souls - Take A Load (And Lay Me Down) 3:12

28 Big 'O' - Hot Rod 2:32

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