D@ryl Br@ithwa!te - 2004 - Sn@pshot FLAC

01     Where The Poor Boys Dance    
02     Is This Love    
03     On Love's Ocean    
04     See You Around Sometime    
05     Duende    
06     Start All Over Again    
07     S.M.T.A.M.    
08     Walkin' Away    
09     Lullaby    
10     Nobody's Side









 It would be hard to find a voice that captures the mood of a song more perfectly than this one. It's the voice that soars with inspiration, soul and warmth. The voice of course belongs to Australian singer Daryl Braithwaite. In a distinguished career spanning more than 35 years Daryl Braithwaite is one of Australia's award-winning premier performers.

His initial success as a singer came with Sherbet, a band which will forever remain in the history books of Australian music. Between 1971 – 1979 Sherbet produced 20 national Top 40 singles and were the first Australian band to top the $1 million dollar mark in album sales in this country with a total of 15 albums and 30 singles to their credit with songs like 'Summer Love' becoming the highest selling single of 1975 and 'Howzat' not only a No #1 hit in Australia, but also achieved #2 in England.

Following the success of Sherbet Daryl returned to the Australian Music Scene in a very big way as a solo performer in 1988 with the release of the phenomenally successful Album Edge which spent well over a year in the national charts and spawned four hit singles 'As The Days Go By', 'All I Do', 'Let Me Be' including the gold single 'One Summer'. The album itself topped the ARIA charts in 1989 and became the highest selling CD in CBS Australia’s history. During this period Daryl toured extensively not only in Australia, but also Canada, The USA, The UK and Europe.

Daryl's second album, Rise, released in 1990, proved to be equally successful, becoming the biggest selling album in 1991 attaining multi platinum status. Rise produced two further hit singles 'Rise' and 'The Horses' which hit #1 in May of 1991 and remained there for three consecutive weeks before going on to achieve platinum status.

'The Horses' was the fourth biggest selling single in Australia for 1991 and was named Song Of The Year at the 1991 Australian Music Awards. The unexpected success of the single also led to a sold out tour of Australia. Daryl again proved that he had what it takes to make an album work and both the critics and public agreed.

More recently, Daryl continues to be in great demand as a live performer both in the corporate and public capacity. Throughout his career, Daryl's incredibly unique voice has captured a time and place integral to The Australian Music Scene and more importantly the Audience.

Daryl Braithwaite - All I Do

All I Do/Promised Land



In 1988, Braithwaite recorded and released his comeback album Edge. This LP featured a somewhat more adult contemporary sound than Braithwaite's previous work, and spawned four hit singles that returned him to the Australian singles charts after an absence of nearly a decade. Two of these hits, "As The Days Go By" and "All I Do", were penned by Canadian songwriter Ian Thomas; a third, "One Summer", was a Braithwaite original.

Braithwaite went on to have a number of solo hits in the early 1990s, including the Australian No. 1 "The Horses", a cover of a Rickie Lee Jones recording written by Jones and Walter Becker. He also made his first US chart appearance as a solo artist at No. 47 with the 1991 single "Higher than Hope", a song he co-wrote with Simon Hussey. By the end of 1991, Braithwaite's Rise album had become Australia's biggest selling CD of the year, and Edge had become the best selling album ever released by Sony Music Australia to that time.

Braithwaite then worked alongside Jef Scott, Simon Hussey and James Reyne to create the 1992 album Company of Strangers. Braithwaite sang lead or co-lead vocals on 4 of the album's tracks, including two Australian top 40 singles: "Motor City (I Get Lost)" (#26, 1992) and "Daddy's Gonna Make You A Star" (#35, 1993).

His comeback success was somewhat derailed by a 1992 lawsuit, in which his former managers sued Braithwaite for back payment of fees owing. The suit was successful, and Braithwaite essentially had to give up all the revenue he made from Edge and Rise, as well as a portion of the revenue from his next album, 1993's Taste The Salt. This last-named album was only moderately successful, and after a 1994 'best-of' collection was released, Braithwaite was dropped by his record company. He did not record another album for 12 years.