Daddy Who?Daddy Cool by Daddy Cool


Now Listen. It's finally here on CD at last and it's 40 years when this landmark album by legendary Australian rock band "Daddy Cool" was released "Daddy Who Daddy Cool". The band with Ross Wilson, Ross Hannaford,Gary Young and Wayne Duncan were formed in October 1970 in Melbourne playing around at places like Much More ballroom, The Melbourne Town Hall, Garrison, the Myer Music Bowl and others and began recording for Sparmac an small independent label. The album was recorded @ Armstrong studios in Melbourne which was recorded in 2 and a half days on 8 track and the producer was Robie Porter formerly known as Australian pop star "Rob EG" who was very popular in the late 50's early 60's with hits like Si Senor and 55 Days @ Peking and had been living in the USA at that time as well being half owner of the Sparmac label. The first single "Eagle Rock" was released in late May 1971 which was an number 1 hit around Australia for 10 weeks and 17 weeks in Melbourne and it's one of the great Australian rock songs with the guitar intro, the sound and the lyrics. the album was released in July 1971 which went to number 1 for 7 weeks and it sold 100,000 copies which it smashed all previous sales records as it went Gold within the month 60,000 in the initial released. It's an BRILLIANT and ROCKIN album and it's just as fresh today as it was 40 years ago. Robie Porter,Jeremy Noone and Dave Brown played on the album as well, Roger Savage was the engineer, Ian McCausland an Artist and worked for Go Set an Australian music newspaper at that time did the cover graphics and Ross Hannaford did the cover design. this album has 11 tracks which were on the original album that includes Eagle Rock, the album version of Come Back Again, the b side of Eagle Rock "Bom Bom", Daddy Cool, School Days (the Chuck Berry song) and other mixture of covers and Ross Wilson compositions and it has 4 songs as the bonus tracks including the single version of Come Back Again as well as 3 songs from the Reprise Records release that was released in the USA. This album has never been released on CD until August 5th and I am glad that it's finally out there which it's an must for any Australian rock and roll fan as well as Daddy Cool fans. I am giving this 5 stars and it's in the shops now so you add to your collection and can be played at parties

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  1. philBAugust 14, 2011 at 12:23 PM

    A nozzie classic! Bought the vinyl when it was new and have only got a few tracks on CDs over the years. I will definately seek this out and buy it. Good choice Luke!

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