In 1982 future Academy Award winner actor Russel Crowe was a young and ambitious eighteen year old living in Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand. At the time his cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe, were playing International Cricket for New Zealand. After being labelled "the singing cousin of the cricketing Crowes' " more than once he changed his name to Russ Le Roq. This is his third single, like the previous two it was released on Ode Records. Never Let You Slide and the B-Side St. Kilda were written by Crowe. Fire is a Pointer Sisters (Bruce Springsteen) cover. Unfortunately it failed to chart like its predecessors. For the next single (Shattered Glass) he changed to a more Synth-Pop sound. It failed too. It was released on CBS(New Zealand). I did not include the B-slide to Shattered Glass because it is a dub version of the A-Side.
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| From the back cover of Never Let You Slide |
Never Let You Slide personal
Produced by Graeme Mhyre
Russ Le Roq Guitar/Vocals
Ken Chung Drums
Graham Silcock Guitar
Pat Roxburgh Bass
Produced by Graeme Mhyre
Russ Le Roq Guitar/Vocals
Ken Chung Drums
Graham Silcock Guitar
Pat Roxburgh Bass
Shattered Glass Personal
Produced by Trevor Reekie
Russ Le Roq Vocals
Graham Silcock Guitar
Pat Roxburgh Bass
Steve Edger Drums
John Cooper TS808
Rohan Hunt Synth
Produced by Trevor Reekie
Russ Le Roq Vocals
Graham Silcock Guitar
Pat Roxburgh Bass
Steve Edger Drums
John Cooper TS808
Rohan Hunt Synth
***Warning recorded from vinyl surface noise.***
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anyone have 'Killing Time', released as a 12" single by Pat Roxburgh and Ken Chung's project Sing Sing? Circa 1982/4 in New Zealand.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who could give me an mp3 rip: rohanhunt@gmail.com
Huh. "Killing Time" gives keyboard credit to some bloke who wasn't even there. Though I'm not proud of my work on that track, I was definitely present.
DeleteHuh. "Killing Time" gives keyboard credit to some bloke who wasn't even there. Though I'm not proud of my work on that track, I was definitely present.
Deletethe b-side is a washout, Russ. never comprehended why you wasted all that time at Mandrill over it.
ReplyDeleteThe original 'St. KILDA' as written by me, Greg O'Leary, and played live in the mk1 version of Russ Le roq (me on bass) was better than the one recorded by the mk3 band... IMO he should have stuck with my version if he wanted a hit... to give him his due, he brought me round a copy of the record and refereced me as Co writer of that song... I play the proper version with my band the R£ADI€$ in Penrith, Cumbria, in 2024... rock on kiwi...
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