Kevin Bible And The Book-Rockin' Pneumonia.Audio grab

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These records come from my personal collection. As a collector they have all been extremely well cared for over the years since I bought them.

 

Time to downsize to make way for other music, I will be listing a number of my treasured compact discs and records ranging from psych/prog to soul to folk to blues and everything in between, over the coming months.

 If you like this record there is a good chance others I am selling may tickle your fancy, so please feel free to have a look. I hope they find their way into the hands of people who will love them as much as I have over the years.

 Thanks for looking & good luck should you decide to bid.

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MINT The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.

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GOOD The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc.

FAIR The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise; it may even jump. The cover and contents will be torn, stained and/or defaced.

POOR The record will not play properly due to scratches, bad surface noise, etc. The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.

BAD The record is unplayable or might even be broken, and is only of use as a collection-filler                                              
 
                                                 Keven Bible And The Book-Rockin' Pneumonia/I Found A New Love

 Original 1965 Downunda Australian Sample Not For Sale Pressing UK-1400

Plays really well and is in  very good condition bordering on excellent with light scratches and scuffing. Sounds great

See photo for label condition

Click on the player below to hear the actual record

Down Under issued 13 singles from July to October in 1966. All were recorded at the St. Clair Recording Studio, 56 Queens Road, Hurstville. At first, production for Down Under was attributed to Nat Kipner. After September 1966, when Spin Records released the The Bee Gees’ ‘Spicks and Specks’ 45, the Down Under singles showed – like The Bee Gees’ 45 – a shared production credit of Kipner and Ossie Byrne. Mr. Ossie Byrne owned the studio, set up in a renovated butcher’s storeroom, and its services were available to anyone prepared to pay 5 pounds ($10) per hour. Kipner’s Spin Records had booked out St. Clair almost continuously since it opened in early 1966. However there were other artists apart from Spin’s who recorded there, and among the others were the Down Under roster. Down Under was Ossie’s own imprint label – the singles were pressed and distributed by Festival Records for Ossie Byrne. Nat Kipner was obviously also associated with the label, but other participants have, so far, not been identified.

Down Under’s last 45 was issued in October 1966. By that date it appears that Ossie Byrne had decided to go with The Bee Gees to England. Nat Kipner had declined the invitation as he had too many commitments in Sydney. Ossie accompanied the Gibb family on the SS Fairsky to London. They left in early January 1967.

A creditors meeting was subsequently called to discuss the St. Clair studio’s finances. Warren Morton from Disc Record Studios attended the meeting. Warren, who for a time in 1966 had shared the studio facilities with Ossie, ran his disc cutting business in nearby Arncliffe and Carlton. Warren recalled that among the debts was a bill from a clothing store in Coogee. The Bee Gees had run up a bill at the shop for over $1000 – a fair sum of money in those days. The Bee Gees had used their co-manager, the St. Clair studio owner Ossie Byrne, as guarantor. Perhaps not surprisingly, the group’s other co-manager, their dad, wily Hugh Gibb, was not a guarantor. Warren pointed out that Ossie settled all the debts from England, including the bill for the Coogee clothing store.

“Rockin’ Pneumonia” is a spirited cover of Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns’ New Orleans classic. “I Found a New Love” had been a 1960 Australian hit for Lonnie Lee. Lee and Nat Kipner were the writers.

At the time of its release, the Sydney Sun wrote, “Kevin Bible and the Book are a group which fortunately shows more talent in its playing than in its picking of a name. Their first record, on Down Under, is a savage “Rockin’ Pneumonia” backed with a catchy version of “I Found A New Love.” (Sun 7/71966, p. 32)

The Book’s line-up was drawn from a local Sydney high-school band, The Riddles, with Kevin Bible replacing John Murray as vocalist. For whatever reason, Nat Kipner and Ossie Byrne thought the band needed a singer other than Murray. With some misgivings the group went along with that assessment. Murray and The Riddles had recorded their entire repertoire at St. Clair, about 16 songs in all. These included “Louise”, “Beautiful Delilah” and “Gloria” by, respectively, The Yardbirds, Chuck Berry and Them. The backing tapes were eventually used for other singers on the TV show Saturday Date.

Drummer Russell Barnsley says, “Even though Kevin was a nice bloke and a fair enough singer, John Murray had been a mate of all of us. It was the wrong thing to do. I never saw him after he left the band, not once, and it’s something I really regret. I’ve hoped one day to catch up with him and tell him, but so far it hasn’t happened.”

Russell’s drumming is on The Bee Gees’ hit “Spicks and Specks / I Am The World” – it was his one and only Bee Gees session at the St. Clair Studio. The Bee Gees were impressed enough with his percussion work to ask him to go to England with them. He declined as he was finishing his butcher’s apprenticeship at the time.

From this band came Dennis D. Wilson, singer, songwriter and one of Australia’s finest rock guitarists. After playing in The Book, Dennis joined another St. Clair performer, Barrington Davis, in two bands: The Barrington Davis Powerpact and Mecca. Dennis then helped form Kahvas Jute. Their 1971 Wide Open LP is one of the classics of its era.
 

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Killer tunes!!

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