John Kirk ballad sales expected this month

Press, 12 October 1985, Page 13

John Kirk ballad sales expected this month

PA Wellington “Boeing Home,” the ballad of the former member of Parliament for Sydenham, John Kirk, is likely to be on sale nationally from October 21, says Festival Records.

The first single by Mr Kirk was completed now after about three days of recording, the co-producer, Gray Bartlett, from Auckland has said.

Mr Kirk, for writing the lyrics, will receive 0.5 of 5 per cent of the net retail sales of the single. No-one at Festival Records would say how many had been pressed. Mr Bartlett, who got the

lyrics from Mr Kirk when he visited him in his Texas jail, said that the next song, “Dallas County Jail Blues,” would be some time away. He said that he and the country singer, Jody Vaughan, would sit down to write music to the lyrics in about a month.

“It will be a Johnny Cashtype song with a bluesy feel. A country style Dire Straits. “They are modern lyrics. They are not like normal country lyrics which are a bit wishy-washy. “I think he (Mr Kirk) could have a future in song writing.” A spokesman from Festival Records said whether

they did the next John Kirk song would depend on how “Boeing Home” sold. But, he said, it was likely they would.