19
Feb
Posted in ACT, Australia, Brothers Grimm, Canberra, HMV | 1 Comment »
c.1966
Band Members:-
Pieter de Vries – Bass
Keith Cannon – Vocals
Robert Ingram – Guitar
Andrew Ingram – Drums
John Thompson – Bass
Ian Winters – Guitar
Record Releases:-
Happiness Street/Beautiful Delilah (HMV EA-4738) c.late 64.65
All My Dreams Come True/You Were The One (HMV EA-????) ??-65
This cover is a rollicking Chuck Berry number (Beautiful Delilah).
Any info on this band would be greatly appreciated!
19
Feb
Posted in ACT, Australia, Bitter Lemons, Canberra, EMI Custom | 2 Comments »
Band Members:-
Nicky Arndt – Guitar
Martin Berry – Guitar & Trumpet
Rex Bullen – Guitar
Graeme Harding – Bass
Tony Hayes – Bass
Dave Kain – Guitar
Paul Lyneham – Vocals
Steve Senz – Drums
Record Release:-
Canberra Blues / One More Chance (EMI Custom PRS 1289) 07-65
Many thanks to the Milesago site for the band history, this website is highly recommend for those of you who wish to research Australian music 1964 – 1975.
The band formed around 1965 under the name The Orgasms, but changed it to the less provocative Bitter Lemons soon after. The band had a residency at a club called The Lemon Tree, in Kingston ACT. This venue will be well-known to Canberrans and others under its name in the ’70s and ’80s, the Boot & Flogger.
Canberra Blues
The group were evidently well-regarded and popular on the local scene, and they recorded one independently released single, “Canberra Blues“, during 1965. Their band came to an abrupt halt in late 1965 after the untimely and tragic death of bassist Graeme Harding — he accidentally fell from a ferry during a party cruise on Lake Burley Griffin and drowned, and the group evidently broke up soon after.
Although his career as a pop singer was short, Paul Lyneham went on to great notoriety and acclaim as a political journalist with the ABCs This Day Tonight and Four Corners. His heyday as political correspondent and political interviewer par excellence was with The 7:30 Report. His final work prior to his own untimely death was with the Nine Network.
The surviving members of The Bitter Lemons reformed for a one-off performance at a social function in 1988 to mark the closing of Old Parliament House. Sadly, Paul Lyneham died from lung cancer on 24 November 2000.