greatest australian singers...

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yes that suit was sprayed on her I think

I loved Olivia in Grease!...never a big fan .....but her black leather suit in Grease .......

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number 33: RUSSELL MORRIS



Russell Norman Morris (born 31 July 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter who had five Australian Top 10 singles during the late 1960s and early 1970s.[SUP][1][/SUP] On 1 July 2008, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised Morris' iconic status when he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
The Real Thing, was written by Johnny Young, produced by Ian Meldrum and engineered by John L Sayers.[SUP][7][/SUP] The backing track was performed by members of Melbourne soul band The Groop, which included Brian Cadd, Richard Wright (drums), Don Mudie (bass), plus Zoot guitarist Roger Hicks, who developed the acoustic guitar riff and backing vocalists Ronnie Charles (The Groop), The Chiffons (including Maureen Elkner) and Marcie and The Cookies Sue Brady and Judy Condon.
Once the result was released to shocked radio programmers, who had never been asked to play such a long Australian single before, it was up to Morris' personality, singing and performing talents to make the record work. It reached Australia's Number 1 spot in June 1969. Without any promotional support from Morris, "The Real Thing" reached number one in Chicago, Houston and New York.
"The Real Thing" is now considered[SUP][who?][/SUP] one of the very best psychedelic rock singles produced in the 1960s. At around six minutes and thirty seconds, it was also the longest pop single recorded in Australia at that time. Released in Australia on EMI's Columbia label, it was the biggest selling Australian single of 1969, and was released when Morris was twenty. The song was released in two halves on the small Diamond Records label in the United States of America and due to record company difficulties with distribution received limited international success as a result, although it did reach #1 in large cities such as Chicago. The song was issued in the UK on Decca Records as EMI turned it down.[SUP][4][/SUP]
More recently, "The Real Thing" has been used by the Seven Network in conjunction with coverage of the AFL, and featured in a tourist campaign promoting Western Australia. Morris's music has also appeared on the soundtrack to The Dish, and has appeared on the ABC show Long Way to the Top. In the early 2010s he toured Australia with fellow 1960s rockers Darryl Cotton and Jim Keays in the trio Cotton Keays & Morris.
"The Real Thing" has been compiled on many great compilations of psychedelic rock, most notably Rubble 18, We Can Fly # 4, and The Best Of The Rubble Collection # 5, where it is paired with Part 3 / Into Paper Walls.

Russell Morris' 2002 retrospective album The Real Thing


The song was followed by "Part Three into Paper Walls", co-written by Young and Morris and arranged by John Farrar and the B-side "The Girl That I Love" arranged by Peter Jones. Both tracks received extensive airplay making it a double number one recording. Later hits such as "Live with Friends" and "Wings of an Eagle" were Morris compositions. The follow-up comprised two more Johnny Young songs; "Part Three Into Paper Walls" and "The Girl That I Love" (a pop ballad more indicative of what was to come) which became a double-sided number one hit, the first time an Australian artist had scored consecutive number ones with their first two singles. Just prior to its release Ian Meldrum relinquished Russell's management. Morris, in the meantime, travelled to the United Kingdom to help promote the release of "The Real Thing". While in England he recorded English songwriter Raymond Foggart's "Rachel", but re-recorded it on arriving back in Australia. "Rachel" became a big hit for Morris in New Zealand.
Morris decided to concentrate on his own songwriting and with the cream of Australian musicians, spent almost a year painstakingly recording and re-recording what became the Bloodstone album. Recorded at Channel 9's TCS Studios and engineered by John L Sayers. It was one of the first Australian albums of its kind, the first from an Australian singer/songwriter, and a whole world away from the extravagant "The Real Thing". The hit single from Bloodstone was the resonant, romantic "Sweet Sweet Love". The following year, in 1972, Morris delivered the equally beautiful "Wings of an Eagle".
In 1973, Morris moved to London to record an album only to discover there was no record contract waiting for him. He relocated to New York and set to work on an album there, including new versions of both "Sweet Sweet Love" and "Wings of an Eagle" and the single "Let's Do It". A second American album appeared in 1976. It was two more years before Morris was granted his green card, enabling him to tour America. But by then, any chance of an American career had bolted. Instead, Morris returned to a very different Australia than the one he had left behind five years earlier.

During his solo career, Morris had done limited live performances without a band of his own. He then formed the Russell Morris Band and threw himself into a busy round of live performances, writing songs designed to be played live rather than chasing radio airplay, but scoring a couple of minor hits on the way. Eventually, the band played and recorded as Russell Morris & the Rubes.
In 1991, Morris released another solo album, A Thousand Suns, and he spent the subsequent years as part of a highly successful performing trio with fellow '60s heroes Ronnie Burns and Darryl Cotton of the Zoot, with a repertoire made up of their individual hits from yesterday, as well as new songs. In Oct 2000, Jim Keays of the Masters Apprentices replaced Burns, the new group being known as Cotton Keays & Morris. Also in 2000, Morris' "The Real Thing" and "Wings of an Eagle" featured prominently in the Australian-made movie The Dish (centred around man's landing on the moon)[SUP][8][/SUP] and Midnight Oil released their version of "The Real Thing" as a one-off single, the first time this highly regarded band had chosen to record a cover.
On 1 July 2008, Morris was inducted by Rob Hirst into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Morris was joined on-stage by guest musicians Steve Kilbey, Tim Powles, Jak Housden, Clayton Doley and Lachlan Doley to perform "The Real Thing".[SUP][9][/SUP] According to Andrew Murfett of The Age, "Russell Morris, whose classic The Real Thing was performed with a supergroup comprising members of The Church, The Whitlams and Powderfinger, was inducted with a tribute from Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst. Morris proved to be a revelation on the night, stirring the crowd with a terrific performance."[SUP][10][/SUP]
In October 2010, his 1973 album, Wings of an Eagle, was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.[SUP][11][/SUP]
Morris is one of Australia's most enduring singers. A major pop star in the late '60s, he went on to become one of the country's most well-known singer/songwriters. Both ends of his career feature predominantly in the soundtrack to the movie, The Dish.

[video=youtube;wBVJFGxyxgE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBVJFGxyxgE[/video]

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my thoughts on russell:

i like what ive heard of Russell,in fact, bought a retrospective collection a week or so ago...
three classic singles IMO, the one above in the previous post and two links below(im sure MH would remember the two below from the US charts back in the day)

wings of an eagle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZXKdY50y0 live

sweet,sweet love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpZSxhuSH0 live

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^^
both clips are blocked in my country
and I'm not moving

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try these ones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AyFI3mKoQY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWWnc5rZqs

[Music Head]

same thing mate

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number 32: KATE CEBRANO



Kate Ceberano (born 17 November 1966) is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film. She has also achieved success as a songwriter, with the hit "Pash" going gold in 1998.
Ceberano was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of an American father of Filipino descent[SUP][2][/SUP] (karate master Tino Ceberano) and an Australian mother. Her maternal forebears were some of the earliest settlers and government officials in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.
Ceberano is an active member of the Church of Scientology.
I'm Talking released "Trust Me" in December 1984, which peaked at #10 on the Kent Music Report for the Australian singles charts.[SUP][3][/SUP] This was followed by "Lead the Way" in July 1985, then a cover of the Rose Royce song "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" in September, which both peaked into the top thirty.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] Although their songs are credited to the band as a whole (i.e. I'm Talking), in fact Goodge and Cox wrote virtually all the music and lyrics. The group won 'Best New Talent' and 'Best Debut Single' for "Trust Me" for 1984 at the Countdown Awards ceremony broadcast in 1985.[SUP][4][/SUP] On 13 July, I'm Talking performed "Lead the Way" in the 1985 Oz for Africa concert (part of the global Live Aid program). It was broadcast in Australia (on both Seven Network and Nine Network) and on MTV in the US.[SUP][5][/SUP]I’m Talking recorded their debut album Bear Witness in Melbourne, it was released in August 1986.[SUP][1][/SUP] Produced by Fred Maher (drummer for Scritti Politti) and Martyn Webster,[SUP][1][/SUP] it peaked at #14 in the albums charts,[SUP][3][/SUP] and spawned three more singles for their Australian label Regular Records. "Do You Wanna Be", entered the charts in May and peaked at #8, this was their highest charting single.[SUP][3][/SUP] "Holy Word" in August featured solo vocals by Abeyratne and peaked at #9.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] "How Can it Be?" was released in October but had no charting success.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] They signed to London Records in the UK but disagreements between the band and that label lead to only one single ("Do You Wanna Be") being released outside of Australia. At least three of their songs later appeared in the 1988 film For Queen & Country.[SUP][6][/SUP]
After returning from their 1986 UK tour supporting Five Star, there were line-up changes, Warren McLean (ex-Machinations) replaced Newman on drums and Kevin Wiltshire was 'imported' from the UK tour as a second keyboardist. That line-up appeared on the national Australian Made tour of January 1987.[SUP][1][/SUP] By March, Abeyratne, Charlesworth and McClean had left.[SUP][1][/SUP] New members were John McAll on keyboards, Philip Jackson on drum machine and electronics, and rapper Tricky J. However, no new material was recorded by this line-up. Ceberano won 'Best Female Vocalist' for 1986 at the final Countdown Awards held in 1987.[SUP][7][/SUP] New material was performed live in 1987, but Ceberano departed to pursue her solo career and I'm Talking disbanded in July 1987. In 1988, a compilation, Dance was released by Regular Records.

[TABLE="class: wikitable"]
[TR]
[TH]Single[/TH]
[TH]Year[/TH]
[TH]ARIA[/TH]
[TH]New Zealand Charts[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]It's Magic / "Only with You (Backing vocals for John Justin)[/TD]
[TD]1984[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Someday (with I'm Talking)[/TD]
[TD]1984[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Barbados (with the Models)[/TD]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Trust Me (with I'm Talking)[/TD]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lead the Way (with I'm Talking)[/TD]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD]25[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Out of Mind, Out of Sight (with the Models)[/TD]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Love Don't Live Here Anymore (with I'm Talking)[/TD]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD]21[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Do You Wanna Be? (with I'm Talking)[/TD]
[TD]1986[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Holy Word (with I'm Talking)[/TD]
[TD]1986[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]You've Always Got the Blues (duet with Wendy Matthews)[/TD]
[TD]1988[/TD]
[TD]81[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]"Bedroom Eyes"[/TD]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]12[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Love Dimension[/TD]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD]14[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Brave / Young Boys Are My Weakness[/TD]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD]15[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]That's What I Call Love" (featured on the Soundtrack "She Devil")[/TD]
[TD]1990[/TD]
[TD]30[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Dindi[/TD]
[TD]1990[/TD]
[TD]105[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Nature Boy[/TD]
[TD]1990[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]"Every Little Thing"[/TD]
[TD]1991[/TD]
[TD]34[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Satisfied[/TD]
[TD]1991[/TD]
[TD]71[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]See Right Through / Everything Will Be Alright[/TD]
[TD]1991[/TD]
[TD]33[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Calling You (with Andrew Pendlebury on guitar)[/TD]
[TD]1992[/TD]
[TD]97[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]"Everything's Alright" (with John Farnham and Jon Stevens)[/TD]
[TD]1992[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]I Don't Know How to Love Him[/TD]
[TD]1992[/TD]
[TD]38[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]You've Got a Friend (Bass Culture Featuring Kate Ceberano)[/TD]
[TD]1993[/TD]
[TD]100[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Feeling Alright[/TD]
[TD]1994[/TD]
[TD]99[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]All That I Want Is You[/TD]
[TD]1994[/TD]
[TD]88[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Change[/TD]
[TD]1995[/TD]
[TD]100[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Love and Affection[/TD]
[TD]1996[/TD]
[TD]91[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Blue Box[/TD]
[TD]1996[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pash[/TD]
[TD]1997[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Love Is Alive[/TD]
[TD]1998[/TD]
[TD]57[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Time To Think[/TD]
[TD]1998[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]I Won't Let You Down[/TD]
[TD]1999[/TD]
[TD]50[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]True Romantic[/TD]
[TD]1999[/TD]
[TD]79[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]2002/2003[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Higher and Higher[/TD]
[TD]2004[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]At Last[/TD]
[TD]2004[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Unchained Melody[/TD]
[TD]2006[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Go Your Own Way[/TD]
[TD]2007[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]She Will Be Loved[/TD]
[TD]2008[/TD]
[TD]-[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


[video=youtube;X18SX5lNvGI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18SX5lNvGI[/video]

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my thoughts on Kate Cebrano...

i always thought she had a powerful,terrific voice but more often than not she recorded trendy poppy tunes, when she put the effort in to sing things like "unchained melody" or "dont cry for me argentina", "amazing grace" etc, her voice was as good as anyone in the business,
but alas, she wasted her talents IMO,
have heard some sultry bluesy/jazzy material she has recorded and it is very good,but of course, that sort of music wont make you a millionaire like the pop stuff does!

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numer 31: DAN SULTAN



Dan Sultan is an Australian singer and songwriter. Sultan plays what he calls country soul rock ‘n’ roll.[SUP]
Daniel Leo Sultan was born in 1983[SUP][2][/SUP] and grew up in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. His father was Irish and his mother, Roslyn Sultan, was Aboriginal from the Arrernte and Gurindji people.[SUP][3][/SUP] Sultan's father, a lawyer, worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service and as a result the family also lived in Yuendumu (300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs) in the Tanami Desert, as well as Cairns in Queensland. He started playing guitar aged four and wrote his first song at ten.[SUP][4][/SUP]
With Scott Wilson he has released an album called Homemade Biscuits with the help of John Butler’s Seed program.[SUP][3][/SUP] Sultan won the Single Release of The Year at the 2007 Deadly Awards for his song "Your Love is Like a Song".[SUP][5][/SUP]
His second album, Get Out While You Can, was released in November 2009. It reached #1 on the independent Australian charts[SUP][6][/SUP] and was a Triple J feature album.[SUP][7][/SUP]
His band is made up of Wilson (vocals and guitar), Joshua Jones (bass), Peter Marin (drums), Gina Woods (keyboards), Steven Veale (horns) and Ben Veale (horns).[SUP][8][/SUP]
Sultan made his screen debut in the 2009 film Bran Nue Dae,[SUP][9][/SUP] together with Geoffrey Rush, Missy Higgins and Jessica Mauboy.[SUP][10][/SUP] Sultan and his band have performed at most major Australian music festivals. Paul Kelly invited Sultan and Wilson to contribute to the Kev Carmody tribute album, Cannot Buy My Soul, as well as the concert of the same name at the Sydney Festival 2008 and Queensland Music Festival 2009.
Sultan is a member of The Black Arm Band, a collection of many of Australia's premier Aboriginal musicians.
Sultan received the 'Best Independent Blues and Roots Album' as well as 'Best Independent Artist' at the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Awards[SUP][11][/SUP] for his album Get Out While You Can.
On 2 November 2010 Sultan won his first ARIA Music Award for Best Blues and Roots Album winning over contenders such as John Butler and Ash Grunwald.
On 7 November 2010 he won an ARIA for Best Male Artist.


[h=2]Discography [edit][/h][h=3]Albums [edit][/h]

• Homemade Biscuits - TrueForm Recording (SULT001) (13 March 2006)[SUP][12][/SUP]
  
• Get Out While You Can - Independent/MGM Distribution (SUL002) (6 November 2009)[SUP][13][/SUP][SUP][14][/SUP] AUS #90[SUP][15][/SUP]
  

[h=3]Singles [edit][/h]

• "Your Love is Like a Song" (2009)
  

[video=youtube;NkIuDZ8ZsJs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkIuDZ8ZsJs[/video][/SUP]

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my thoughts on Dan Sultan:

i have his second album "get out while you can"...i like it, lots of old fashioned style rock and roll with a hint of soul in the mix, as to being one of the great aussie vocalists, well, thats another story!