Judy Stone - 1974 - Pure Stone FLAC

Everybody's Reachin Out For Someone/The Summer Knows/Take Me Home Country Roads/Marieke/Song For You/No Regrets/Believe In Music/Cajun Man/Where Do I Begin/Day By Day/Until It's Time For You To Go/Love's Old Song


 Born on the first of January 1st 1944 in Sydney.

After travelling throughout the country with "The Reg Lindsay Show", Judy began touring with Col Joye and, before long, became a regular member of the popular T.V. show, "Bandstand". It was in the sixties that Judy's hit songs...I'll step down, Born a woman, 4003221 tears from now, established her as a recording artist as well as a T.V. star.

Since the "Bandstand" days, she has appeared on every major T.V. show in Australia and demand for her appearances has remained constant. Such is her popularity, that judy has been invited to perform with many Top International Artists on their Austrlian tours. They include: Sir Harry Secombe, Rolf Harris , Dick Emery, Johnny Mathis and Howard Keel.

 The song that gained Judy the National Award in 1974, "Field of Stone", coupled with "Mare, Mare, Mare", earned Judy the distinction of being the first Australian Female Entertainer with two records concurrently featuring in the Top 40. In 1976, "Silver Wings and Golden Rings" firmly established her in the Country Pop scene. "Hasta Manana" added to her successes, proving a hit in Australia with credits from England and Scotland.

Recognition of Judy's immense talents has been overwhelming, with more than twenty awards from T.V. and Recording Performances, including three T.V. Logies and eight "MO" awards.

Judy has represented Australia three times at International Expositions, in Japan and the United States. Her recording and singing in other languages, Flemish and Italian, led to a hit record recorded in Japanese which enabled Judy to successfully perform in Japan's top nightclubs.

 A memorable highlight of Judy's career occurred in 1986 when she signed a history making recording contract as the first foreign Female Performer with the Republic of China Record Company. In September 1986, to coincide with the release of her album, Judy was invited to Beijing to appear in a Television Special where she sang in Mandarin to her audience.

Whilst in China, Judy endeared herself to the Chinese people, further enhancing her reputation as one of Australia's most "PRECIOUS GEM'.

Throughout the nineties Judy Stone has performed in all major clubs and venues throughout Australia and starred in her own one woman cabaret show at the Tilbury Hotel in 1995. More recently Judy Stone has been a star performer in the Col Joye Show which has been touring Nationally.   Thanks to Geospiri

1984 – Inducted into the Hands of Fame.

 The Country Music Hands of Fame Cornerstone was established in Tamworth, Australia's Country  Music  Capital, in 1977 as a tribute to people who had made a name for themselves in Australian country music.

Marcia Hines - 1994 - Right Here and Now FLAC

Give It All You Got/Rain (Let The Children Play)/ Change/Point Of No Return/Right Here & Now/Common Mind/Ought To Know (duet with John Kenny)/Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees/Don't Mean Nothin'/Nobody Knows/Know It In Your Heart/ Sooner Or Later/Right Here & Now (Reprise)


 Right Here and Now is the eighth studio album released by Australian musician Marcia Hines, in October 1994. It debuted and peaked at #21 on the ARIA chart. It is her first album of original songs since Love Sides in 1983. In March 1994, Hines toured nationally for the first time in seven years and she signed a new contract with Warner Music Australia.
Marcia Elaine Hines, AM (born 20 July 1953), is an American-Australian vocalist, actress and TV personality. Hines made her debut, at the age of 16, in the Australian production of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar. She achieved her greatest commercial successes as a recording artist during the late 1970s with several hit singles, including cover versions of "Fire and Rain", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "You" and "Something's Missing (In My Life)"; and her Top Ten albums Marcia Shines, Shining and Ladies and Gentlemen. Hines was voted "Queen of Pop" by TV Week's readers for three consecutive years from 1976.

Hines stopped recording in the early 1980s until she returned with Right Here and Now in 1994, the same year she became an Australian citizen. She was the subject of the 2001 biography Diva: the life of Marcia Hines which coincided with the release of the compilation album Diva. Since 2003 she has been a judge on Australian Idol, and her elevated profile led to a renewed interest in her as a performer. Her 2006 album, Discotheque, peaked at number 6 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums chart. Hines was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on 18 July 2007.

Hines is the mother of singer Deni Hines, with whom she performed on the duet single "Stomp!" (2006)

Allison Durbin - 1976 - Born A Woman

Oh Boy/Blanket On The Ground/Born A Woman/He's So Fine/L.A. International Airport/Tar And Cement/In The Ghetto/Medley：How Can You Mend A Broken Heart; Feelings; Falling In Love Again/The Way I Want To Touch You/Sunshine On My Shoulders/Medley：Baby I'm A 'Want You; Honey Come Back/At Seventeen/Breaking Up Is Hard To Do


Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 May 1950, Allison Anne Durbin joined New Zealand’s popular Uncle Tom’s Friendly Road Children’s Choir (a radio and concert choir made up of kids aged between 5 and 21) at the age of five. She stayed with the choir for four years.

At the age of 13, Allison sang a guest spot with a rock band at a venue called the Shiralee Club, impressing the club manager so much that he offered her a residency to sing at the club three night’s a week. She performed at the club for 12 months, with her mother accompanying her to and from the club each night.

 During her time at the club, she was spotted by a record company talent scout who arranged for her to record her first single. By the time she left school at the age of 15, Allison had five singles to her credit – the most successful being Can’t You Hear My Heart Beat?

Travelling to Australia with the 8-piece Mike Perjanik Show Band, Allison left the band in Sydney shortly after her 17th birthday and returned to New Zealand. Her biggest break came the following year when she supported Gene Pitney on his New Zealand tour. Soon after, she recorded Don’t Come Any Closer, which not only did well for her at home but was her first record released in Australia.

As a result, Allison was taken to Melbourne in March 1969 as a special guest artist on the Myer Music Bowl concert staged as part of Melbourne’s Moomba festival. She returned home for just two months before lucrative offers enticed her back to Australia in mid-1969.Allison developed into one of Australia’s leading female singers, regularly performing at all major hotels and clubs, making frequent television appearances and releasing numerous hit records. She also won a string of press and television awards in the early 1970s as Australia’s best female pop singer.

By 1976 she had moved from pop to country music, where she enjoyed equivalent success in sales and popularity, with seven charting albums between then and 1983.

As her career waned, Durbin began using heroin and, in 1985, she publicly acknowledged her battle with drugs and sought treatment at a drug rehabilitation centre. Shortly after her release from the centre, she was struck by a car which left her with serious injuries including a broken jaw. After she recovered, she worked as a country music singer but, although she made a couple of comeback attempts – including a 30th-anniversary tour of Australia in 1998 – Allison Durbin faded from popular view.

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Wendy Matthews - 2004 - Cafe Naturale FLAC

All I Need/Early Morning Rain/Love And Happiness/Slave (just for love)/Short Note/This Time/All That It Takes/Moon Beneath My Feet/A Kiss To Build A Dream On/One/Protection/The Wing And The Wheel


Café Naturale is the seventh studio album by singer Wendy Matthews released by BMG in Australia on 24 May 2004. It is an album of cover songs Matthews and the album's producer Michael Szumowski chose themselves. Matthews enjoyed recording this album and felt the songs came together naturally, she also felt she broke down some personal barriers. The album yielded only one single, "All I Need".

In 2002, Matthews moved to a coastal haven outside Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. She spent a lot of time in her favourite cafe listening to records and explains "there’s nothing like a song to bring you back to a specific moment or feeling in time." This lead her to name the album Café Naturale. She was also surprised by some of the song choices. Matthews states "Once we got into the studio the record started to reveal its personality to me. It all came together and the songs, these very melodic songs, started to make themselves known. It just worked." Matthews believes this record seems charmed and she'd love for this record to play in someone’s favourite café and inspire a few memories.

The thought behind the album's cover artwork comes from a painting of a woman on a wall on Edgecliff Road in Sydney, Australia by Bruno Dutot in 1987. Matthews approached Dutot and she asked him to commission a painting of this woman for her cover. She states "basically, he's painted her as me with a chopstick in her hair and my dog at the feet. Every time I'm in Sydney I have to go and check the lady on the wall, what colour dress she's wearing this month, whether she's changed and she looks so cafe society to me, so I'm thrilled and honoured that he actually did a painting for this cover." Matthews states the painting has come to symbolise Sydney for her.

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Normie Rowe - 1973 - Hello FLAC RE-POST UPGRADE

Hello/Down On The Corner/Glory Road/For Once In My Life/Over You Now/Personality/Where's The Playground/Rings/
Home To Stay/Border Song/Come Here My Song/Willie And Laura May James


Norman John "Normie" Rowe AM (born 1 February 1947) was a major male solo performer of Australian pop music in the 1960s. Known for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence, many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Nat Kipner and later by Pat Aulton, house producers for the Sunshine Records label. Backed by his band, The Playboys, Rowe released a string of Australian pop hits on the Sunshine Records label that kept him at the top of the Australian charts and made him the most popular solo performer of the mid-1960s. Rowe's double-sided hit "Que Sera Sera" / "Shakin' All Over" was one of the most successful Australian singles of the 1960s.
Between 1965 and 1967 Rowe was Australia's most popular male star but his career was cut short when he was drafted for compulsory military service in late 1967. His subsequent tour of duty in Vietnam effectively ended his pop career and he was never able to recapture the success he enjoyed at his peak.   New Link Added 07.08.2020

The Hawking Brothers - 1976 - Special Edition FLAC

A Good Love Is Like A Good Song/Release Me/I've Found My Freedom/Me And Bobby McGee/Eighteen Yellow Roses/Molly Breen//Old Bark Hut/Julianna/Wild Rover No More/Home Ain't On The Range Any No More/Catfish John/This House Runs On Sunshine/Last Train To Clarkeville/Long And Dance/Wild Colonial Boy/Pretty Brown Eyes/My Elusive Dream/The Convict And The Rose/Maggie May/Mamma Tried


 Russel - born: July 1st 1931 / Died: November 2nd 1976 Alan - born: July 7th 1933 / Died: September 19th 1988

Alan was raised by his mother’s parents (his mother died when he was only 2yrs of age) whereas Russel was brought by his father’s parents.  They spent most their childhood days apart.

Mid 1950’s, both Russel and Alan joined The Trailblazers which were early Melbourne country music concert troupe.  It was in June 1955, the Hawking Brothers recorded their first disc for Regal Zonophone (EMI) – ‘My Darling Daisy’.  They would later record for W&G and RCA.
In the early 1960’s Alan & Russell Hawking were already established on the Australian Country Music Scene.  Later they decided to form a band which became one the greatest bands in Country Music history – they had an excellent career for over a decade ‘The Hawking Brothers & The Wildwoods.’  

The Hawking Brothers band included – Peter Cohen, Garry Newton, George Xanthos, Joe Attard, Peter Hayes, John Faubel, Leo Dalton and Doug Foley.
The Hawking Brothers & The Wildwoods were supporting band on the Johnny Cash and Buck Owns tour of Australia in early 1970’s and late 1970’s toured with Charlie Pride.  The highlight of their career was being the first Australia group to appear on the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, 1975. Later they would revert back to the Hawking Brothers.

Their biggest hits were: Hand in the Hand, Catfish John, The Melbourne Cup and Eighteen Yellow Rose.  There were a total of 16 LP’s cut by the brothers before the untimely death of Russel on November 2, 1976. 
Alan decided to carry on with the band – and 4 more albums were released – which included their biggest hit ‘One Day At A Time’.  In 1971 the Hawking Brother’s fan club was founded by a Dianne Johns.

 The Hawking Brothers arguably won more awards than any other Australian country group.   When the band started to have promotional problems and difficulties which saw the group falling to pieces, in 1981, Alan Hawking decided to go solo.
Alan’s solo recordings include:- RCA single ‘Just For Today’ and an LP of the same title. In 1983, Alan received a Gold Guitar for best instrumental. Up until his death, Alan recorded his own tracks in his home studio on multi track recording system.  Thanks to Mustang

Various - 1986 - Australian TV's Greatest Hits @320 RE-POST REQUEST

Ask The Leyland Brothers/Off The Beaten Track/Leyland Bros. Great Outdoors/Beyond 2000/Wonderworld/No. 96/Aunty Jack Theme/Hogan Theme/Tonight With Bert Newton Theme/Sullivans Theme/Daryl Somers Show/In Melbourne Tonight/Hunter/A Current Affair/Division Four/Darrods Theme/Here's Humphrey/Skippy/Logies Theme 1970/GTV9 Theme 1976/Nine Network Shuffle/9 News Theme/Tarax Magic Mirror/Theme From The Don Lane Show/Ford New Faces/Sale Of The Century/Willesee Theme/Rush/Cowra Breakout/Waterfront/Power Without Glory/Australia You're Standing In It/The Anzac's Theme/Mother And Son/A Big Country/Riptide/Carsons Law/Perfect Match/Sons And Daughters/Secret Valley/Class Of '74/Celebrity Game/The Restless Years/Chopper Squad/Glenview High/Blankety Blanks/Family Feud/It's A Knockout/Matchmates/Neighbours/Prisoner/Taurus Rising/Young Doctors/The New Price Is Right/Wheel Of Fortune/Concentration/Mavis Bramston Show/Theme From A Country Practice/Four Corners


Wonderful album 59 great tracks from some of Australia's best loved and watched TV shows throughout the years some great memories there.

Aleph - 1977 - Surface Tension FLAC

Banshee/Man Who Fell/Morning/You Never Were A Dreamer/Mountaineer/Heaven's Archaepelago



Sydney-based symphonic rock band Aleph's one album, Surface Tension, featured full-blown, complex progressive rock in the Yes/Genesis/King Crimson vein. Joe Walmsley's high-pitched vocals recalled Yes singer Jon Anderson, while Dave Froggett's guitar style was in the manner of King Crimson's Robert Fripp. The only other local bands playing in a similar style at the time were Sebastian Hardie and Windchase. Surface Tension failed to chart. Prior to the album's release, Aleph issued a cover of The Yardbirds' `Little Games'/`Of the Essence' as a single. Walmsley left before the album appeared at the end of 1977. Unable to find a suitable replacement, the band fell apart in early 1978. Later in the year, Ron Carpenter formed First Light, which issued a self-titled, self-financed album in 1979.

Original line-up: Joe Walmsley (vocals), Dave Froggett (guitar), Mary Carpenter (keyboards), Mary Hansen (keyboards), David Highett (bass), Ron Carpenter (drums)