Show 112
03-26-2025
Spring fever. Taking malt-based liquid medication
Without entering into an argument about New Zealand's place in a Down Under Hour program, here is a Split Enz triple play.
Dirty Creature
Six Months In A Leaky Boat - both songs from their 1982 album Time And Tide.
I Hope I Never, from their 1980 album True Colours.
Split Enz started in New Zealand but by 1975 they'd moved to Australia. They featured Tim Finn singing, playing piano and writing songs. Later he was joined in the band by his younger brother Neil Finn, who eventually put together his own band, Crowded House.
Tasmanian, no devils
Sump Oil City - Pete Cornelius, from his album Southern, released in February this year.
Anthropology - A. Swayze and the Ghosts, from their album Let's Live a Life Better Than This, which came out in October 2024.
Can You Feel It? - Felicity Cripps, from her album Chasing Volcanoes, which came out in August 2024.
Aquarium Cowgirl - Babe Rainbow with a new single, meaning March 2025.
Aussies love their football (they call it footy)
A TV ad from the 1970s for Holden cars, leading into two songs about footy.
Up There Cazaly - Mike Brady singing about a legendary player named Roy Cazaly, but really it's about footy.
That's the Thing About Football - Greg Champion, a dead-set legend of Aussie song.
Into the vaults - a 1960s set
Wild About You - the Missing Links, a 1965 single. also on the album Driving You Insane.
War Or the Hands of Time - the Masters Apprentices, a 1967 single,
I'll Make You Happy - the Easybeats, from 1966, the album It's 2 Easy.
Hangin' Five - the Delltones,, a 1963 single, we found it on the soundtrack to a 1977 movie, Summer City.
We tossed in a minute of this to fill space: Bowling Brings Out The Swinger In You - the Twilights in 1967 doing an ad for bowling. The Twilights featured singer Glenn Shorrock who later was one of the founders of the Little River Band, and Terry Britten on guitar, he went on to become a popular songwriter for the likes of Michael Jackson and Tina Turner.
Drive - Ben Mastwyk with his version of the song. He recorded it for an EP he released in December 2024, The Miner's Loft Sessions. The original, by the Cars, was on their 1984 album Heartbeat City.
Intro: Roulette - Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino, 2003.
Exit and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998 album.
