music video

Rip It Up, Issue 176, 1 March 1992, Page 29

music video

SHINDIG PRESENTS... U - Groovy Gals Soul Jackie Wilson Frat Party Righteous Brothers Motor City Magic (ABC/Festival Video) This series of 30min compilations from the USA Shindig show was intelligently collated by USA collector label Rhino. Shindig was the USA equivalent to England's Ready Steady Go and screened in NZ in the 60s, influencing the local productions Let's Go and C'mon. The Soul compile has some rare performances, Tina Turner and Marvin Gaye doing a 'Money / I'll Be Doggone' medley, lesser known Major Lance, Booker T & the MGs, Marvin Gaye, Joe Tex and two dynamic appearances by James Brown. The Jackie Wilson tape is my fave, nine songs showing his phenomenal ■ singing and moves. Great tracks are 'Baby Workout', 'No Pity (In the Naked City)' and 'Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On' with Jerry Lee Lewis. Groovy Gals has such rarities as the Toys, Fontella Bass, Shangri-Las, Jackie De Shannon, Blossoms, Petula Clark and Aretha Franklin doing the R&R 'Shoop Shoop Song'. Motor City Magic is a collection of gems by artists from the Motown label —Jnr Walker, Temptations, Martha & the Vandellas, Mary Wells, Four Tops, Supremes and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. / Frat Party has the Kingsmen murdering 'Louie Louie' live, the P -* - Hondells doing 'Little Honda' sitting on Hondas with,go-go dancers bouncing

on each backseat. Tacky! There's also the McCoys, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Isley Brothers doing 'Shouf and Jerry Lee Lewis powering through 'Great Balls of Fire'. Delightful rarity here is Olympics doing 'Good Lovin' before the Rascals made it a mega-hit. Righteous Brothers are fab on 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" and they do great Ray Charles on some of their own hits and on Charles' 'Night Time is the Right Time'. They looked like geeks but those guys sure could sing. Shindig was sponsored by a milk company and kinky milk adverts screen on each video — go-go dancers . looking lusty as they drink their glasses of milk, lick their lips and then go back to dancing with teen idol Bobby Sherman. Wow! I dig Shindig! MURRAY CAMMICK MUSIC VIDEOS New releases from Total Entertainment are Salt'N'Pepa Their Greatest Hits, Soundgarden Louder Than Live, Extreme Pomograffitti and Amy Grant Heart In Motion. Videos from Warner Music include White Lion Escape From Brooklyn (75mins), Eric Burden & the Animals Finally (doco 60mins), Cream Strange Brew (60min$), Various Guitar (60mins), Cold Chisel Seeing Is Believing (now includes 'Misfits'), Badlands Dag the Giblets and Reggae Sunsplash (60mins). Festival have issued the 60s Shindig video series that were originally compiled in the USA by collector's label Rhino. The titles available are Righteous Brothers, Motor City Magic (Motown), Jackie Wilson, Soul, Groovy Gals and Frat Party. The 30 minute videos retail for $25.

ENZEDNEWS Major events early April are the NZ Music Awards Monday April 6 at the Aotea Centre and the Music New Zealand Convention the day before at the Aotea Centre. The convention is ideal for musicians etc who take their music seriously, to face the issues and meet people in the industry. This year the convention will cover practical areas such as Management, Contracts, Media exposure etc, with time set aside for questions to panelists. See page 15 for info and registration form... EMI Records have signed Auckland Latin

band Kantuta... TVFM featured a great compile of Kiwi clips Saturday night March 14 from Split Enz to Push Push, including Toy Love's annimated 'Bride of Frankenstein' and Headless Chicken's 'Gaskrankenstation'... Paul Übana Jones has recorded his second album for Pagan, engineered by Nigel Stone at Marmalade... Southside's funk duo D-Faction have completed recording their debut 1P... Greg Johnson Set will soon release a new single 'lsabelle'... Yahoo at 9am Saturday mornings on TV3 are featuring a variety of Kiwi bands, one a week, recent guests have

included Nemesis Dub Systems, Freak Power, Nicole Matsuda, Rumblefish, Exponents, Hallelujah Picassos and coming up are Push Push (March 21) and Houseparty March 28... ace deejay Jon Davis (ex Box, ex Site) is running a NZDJ school with other top tutors. Courses start soon. Phone 630-4969 or 358-2881 for details. . the 1992 Music Trade Show takes place Queens Birthday Weekend, at Auckland's Sheraton Hotel, with the open-day for the public oh Saturday May 30... Debbie Harwood and Kim Willoughby have recorded a

remake of Three Dog Night's'Black & White'with lan Morris producing... Hallelujah Picassos have completed their Hateman In Love LP for April release on Wildside... the forthcoming Neville Brothers album includes a dedication "to our extended family in Aotearoa: The Te Arawa, Ngati-Tuwharetoa, Maniapoto, Ngati-Porou and all the Maori people and Canoes."... Second Child and Nixons do lower North Island dates, Thursday April 2 at the Outter Limits Club, Wellington's Carpark and Friday April 3 at Superliquorman, Palmerston North.