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Sunday 15 September 2013

ROBIN JOLLEY


Robin Jolley started singing with the Melbourne group Windy and Warm whilst in his mid-teens. The band released one single in 1969, ''It Hurts Me So / Bread'' which saw no chart action. Neville Kent discovered him and enticed him to come to Hobart where he got him off the ground as a solo singer. The next step was a record deal. In 1972 he returned to Melbourne in the search for one. Radio DJ Paul Konik introduced him to Brain Cadd which presented him with a song called ''Marshall’s Portable Music Machine'' which Brian had co-written with Don Mudie. The track had already been recorded by Cadd in 1971 as an entry at the Tokyo Song Festival. Robin Jolley was called into Fable Music to rework the lead vocal track. Jolly thought he would fade into obscurity, but his song went #1 in Melbourne, #5 in Adelaide, #1 in Brisbane, #1 in Perth and #4 in Sydney and Top 20 in Japan. It was also released in the Netherlands and NZ. Robin released five singles, an EP and LP for Fable and three other singles on other labels.





SINGLES
Marshall's Portable Music Machine

17 APR '72#4
Do You Wanna Boogie

10 SEP '73#44
Song and Dance Man

22 APR '74#75
My Happy Song

16 SEP '74#91






References

http://ozziemusicman.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/post-532-robin-jolley-midnight-woman.html

http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/


2 comments:

  1. Marshall was a Children's presenter on the Supper Flying Fun Show Channel 9 who had a music machine named after the song, which was strikingly similar in description to the lyrics.It was used as a teaching aid in schools and today is acknowledged as a forerunner to today's self contained act. Ref u tube Mike Walsh with Marshall's Portable Music Machine.

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    1. I saw the machine at my school in 1976 I believe. I was in kindy

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