Then and Now...Australia Salutes The Beatles...various artists

This compilation sees some of Australia's finest artists covering classic Beatles songs.

"No single instance of Beatlemania throughout the globe ever came close to the intensity and sheer magnitude of the social upheaval which occurred beneath the southern cross. No street crowds, in New York or London or Liverpool ever eclipsed the antipodean hordes which, at times, comprised a third of the entire population of a city.  Not since the VE and VJ days which marked the end of WWII had the streets been filled with such celebration and abandon. No royal tour could match the displayed devotion - 350,000 in the streets of Adelaide alone, compared to 10,000 at Kennedy Airport in New York 4 months before. As tour press officer Derek Taylor once declared: "It was clear that many of eleven million people in Australia viewed the Beatles in a messianic light" - Glenn A Baker.

                                                                  
Disc 1

    From Me To You - The Bee Gees
    Yesterday - The Seekers
    For No One - Little Pattie
    It Won't Long - The Rajahs
    You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - Ronnie Burns
    All My Loving - Johnny Young
    Obla-Di, Obla-Da - The Executives
    I Feel Fine - Masters' Apprentices
    With A Little Help From My Friends - Doug Ashdown
    Tomorrow Never Knows - Wendy Saddington
    Hey Jude - Max Merritt & The Meteors
    Come Together - The La De Das
    Dear Prudence - Doug Parkinson In Focus
    Eleanor Rigby - The Zoot
    Carry That Weight - Colleen Hewitt
    Nowhere Man - Sherbet
    Paperback Writer - Glenn Shorrock


Disc 2

    Help - John Farnham
    Oh! Darlin' - The Models
    Birthday - Sunnyboys
    I've Just Seen A Face - Jenny Morris
    Baby You're A Rich Man - Company Of Strangers (W/James Reyne)
    A Hard Days Night - The Hoodoo Gurus
    I'm So Tired - You Am I
    I'm Only Sleeping - The Vines
    Two Of Us - Josh Pyke & Bob Evans
    Girl - Glenn Cardier
    Blackbird - Katie Noonan
    Across The Universe - Rachael Leahcar
    Day Tripper/lady Madonna - Tommy Emmanuel
    Things We Said Today - Marty Rhone
    Like Dreamers Do - The Beatnix
    'Til There Was You - Harrison Craig
    Strawberry Fields Forever - John Waters 

Max Merritt and The Meteors...23 Trax of Max 1965 - 1982

Max Merritt (born Maxwell James Merritt in Christchurch, New Zealand on 30 April 1941)is a New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and guitarist who is renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R'n'B. As leader of Max Merritt & The Meteors his best known hits are "Slippin' Away", which reached #2 on the 1976 Australian singles charts, and "Hey, Western Union Man" which reached #13. Merritt rose to prominence in New Zealand from 1958 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in December 1964. Merritt was acknowledged as one of the best local performers of the 1960s and 1970s and his influence did much to popularise soul music / R'n'B and rock in New Zealand and Australia.

Merritt is a venerable pioneer of rock in Australasia who produced crowd pleasing shows for over 50 years. He has engendered respect and affection over generations of performers which was evident at the 2007 Concert for Max to provide financial support after it was announced he had Goodpasture's syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised Merritt's iconic status on 1 July 2008 when he was inducted into their Hall of Fame.

This is the definitive CD collection of the gravel-voiced soul king's recordings from his 1965 arrival in Australia through to his last single in 1982. An incredibly powerful collection of soul, R&B, funk, reggae and great rock – including ‘Fannie Mae’, ‘Shake’, ‘Western Union Man’, ‘Slipping Away’ and ‘Try A Little Tenderness’. During an era of wimpy teenyboppers, Max was the real thing - a mature rocker with musical integrity who imbued all his recordings with a great passion and sense of raw roots credibility.

1. FANNIE MAE
2. SHAKE
3. I CAN’T HELP MYSELF
4. I WANT SO MUCH TO KNOW YOU
5. RESPECT
6. LOUISIANA ANNA
7. GOOD FEELIN’
8. I’VE BEEN AWAY TOO LONG
9. HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
10. WESTERN UNION MAN
11. LIVE LEVIS
12. HELLO L.A., BYE BYE BIRMINGHAM
13. LET IT SLIDE
14. TO BE A LOVER
15. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
16. SLIPPING AWAY
17. A LITTLE EASIER
18. WHISPER IN MY EAR
19. MIDNIGHT MAN
20. AIN’T YOU GLAD YOU CAME?
21. A LOVER’S QUESTION
22. DIRTY WORK
23. PROVE IT

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