John L Sayers is an Australian recording engineer, producer and studio designer who engineered and/or produced many classic Australian rock and pop albums and singles from 1969 to the present. Sayers is one of a number of producer-engineers who are associated with the Melbourne popular music scene of the 1960s and 1970s and in particular with the renowned Armstrong's Studios

Armstrong's Studios

-- also known as Bill Armstrong's Studio and later renamed AAV is an important Australian commercial recording studio located in Melbourne, Victoria....

, the venue where many of the most successful Australian pop/rock recordings of the period were recorded.

Sayers' recording credits as either engineer or producer or both include:

1960s

• Liv Maessen - "Snowbird", "Knock Knock Who's There?"
• Matt Flinders
  Matt Flinders
  Matt Flinders, born Sylvan Louis Bonett in Alexandria, Egypt, is a singer who rose to prominence in the late 1960s in Australia.Of French, English and Italian background, Flinders migrated to Australia with his family in 1951...
  
   - "Picking up Pebbles, "Butterfly"
• John Farnham
  John Farnham
  John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...
  
   - "One"
• Max Merritt and the Meteors - Western Union Man album :
• John Williamson
  John Williamson (singer)
  John Robert Williamson AM is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson has released over thirty-two albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books...
  
   - Old Man Emu album and single
• Russell Morris
  Russell Morris
  Russell Norman Morris is an Australian singer-songwriter who had five Australian Top 10 singles during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
  
   - "The Real Thing", "Part 3 into Paper Walls", "The Girl That I Love", "Sweet Sweet Love", Bloodstone album - - :
• The Masters Apprentices
  The Masters Apprentices
  The Masters Apprentices were an Australian rock band fronted by mainstay Jim Keays on lead vocals, which formed in 1965 in Adelaide, South Australia, relocated to Melbourne in February 1967 and attempted to break into the United Kingdom market from 1970, before disbanding in 1972...
  
   - "Turn up Your Radio", "5:10 Man"
• Ross D Wylie - "Here comes the Star", "Funny Man"
• Lionel Rose
  Lionel Rose
  Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...
  
   - "I Thank You".
• The Group - "Such a Lovely Way".
• Axiom - "Arkansas Grass", "A little Ray of Sunshine".
• Robin Jolley - "Marshall's Portable Music Machine".
• Ronnie Burns - "Smiley"
• Spectrum - "I'll Be Gone", Milesago album
• Indelible Murtcepts - Warts up your Nose album
• Ted Mulry
  Ted Mulry
  Ted Mulry was a singer, songwriter, bass player and guitarist. He was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England but achieved his success in Australia, firstly as a solo performer, and then leading his own band Ted Mulry Gang, sometimes officially credited as just TMG.-Solo:Ted Mulry first came to the...
  
   - "Julia"
• Zoot
  Zoot (band)
  Zoot are a pop/rock band formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 1965 as Down the Line. They changed their name to Zoot in 1967 and by 1968 had relocated to Melbourne...
  
   - Just Zoot album, "Strange Things", "1 x 2 x 3 x 4"
• Fraternity - "Seasons of Change"
• The Valentines - "Nick Nack Paddy Wack"

1970s

Brian Cadd

Brian Cadd

Brian George Cadd is an Australian singer-songwriter, keyboardist and producer who has performed as a member of The Groop, Axiom, Flying Burrito Brothers and solo...

 - Gingerman album
Ted Mulry - Marcia
Chain - Towards the Blue album
Chain - Grab a snatch and hold it
Chain - Judgement
Johnny Farnham "Sings the Shows"
Johnny Farnham "Together" with Alison Durbin.
Matt Taylor - Straight as a Die album - I Remember when I was Young
Wendy Saddington

Wendy Saddington

Wendy June Saddington is an Australian blues / soul / jazz singer and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen pop newspaper Go-Set from September 1969 – September 1970 as an agony aunt in her weekly "Takes Care of Business" column and as a...

 - Looking Through a Window
Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States...

 - Speak to the Sky
Kerry Biddell - You've got a Friend album.
Max Merritt and The Meteors - Stray Cats Album
Billy Thorpe

Billy Thorpe

William Richard "Billy" Thorpe, AM was a renowned English-born Australian pop / rock singer-songwriter and musician...

/Warren Morgan - Thumping Pig and Puffing Billy album
Lobby Lloyd and the Coloured Balls - Ball Power album
McKenzie Theory. Out of the Blue Album
Jimmy Little

Jimmy Little

Jimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...

 - Baby Blue
Ted Mulry and the Gang - Jump in my Car album
Ted Mulry and the Gang - My Little Girl
Ted Mulry and the Gang - Dark Town Strutters Ball
Jackie Orszaczky

Jackie Orszaczky

Jackie Orszaczky was a Hungarian-Australian musician, arranger, and record producer, playing mainly bass guitar, but also various other instruments.-Work:...

 - Morning in Beramiada Album -
Sherbert

Sherbert

Sherbert may refer to:* "Sherbert," a phonetic alternative spelling for sherbet, an iced dessert containing both fruit juice and between 1% and 2% milkfat...

- Life Album - Child's Play Life
Hush

Hush (band)

Hush was a 1970s Australian glam rock pop group and became famous during frequent appearances on the ABC show Countdown for live concerts and teenagers, and they would not have come into existence without the superb John Koutts on drums....

 - Boney Moroney
Hush - Glad all Over
Street Hero - Jon English and Renee Geyer -Every Beat Of My Heart
Marcia Hines

Marcia Hines

Marcia Elaine Hines, AM is a vocalist, actress and TV personality who achieved success in her adopted homeland of Australia. Hines made her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the Australian version of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar...

 - Marcia Shines album - Fire and Rain/You,
Marcia Hines - From The Inside album.
O'l 55 - Take it Greasy album
Chariot - album
Southern Cross - Southern Cross album
Pantha - Dway do Dway do album
Greg Quill

Greg Quill

Greg Quill is an Australian-born musician, singer, songwriter and journalist who has been resident in Toronto, Canada since the late 1970s, where he is an entertainment columnist and long-serving staff member of the Toronto Star newspaper.-Biography:...

 - The Outlaws Reply Album
Benjiman Hugg - What's Been Happening album
Jeff St John - So Far So Good album
Australia - Maiden Australia album .
Ray Burton - Dreamers and Nightflyers album.
Daley Wilson Big Band Album.
Coolangatta Gold - Film Tracks.
Radio Birdman

Radio Birdman

Radio Birdman was one of the first punk bands in Australia along with The Saints. Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed the group in Sydney, Australia in 1974...

 - Burn My Eye EP
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear album
Misex - Space Race Album
Ayres Rock - Big Red Rock album
Mark Gillespie - Only Human Album

1980s

• Australian Crawl
  Australian Crawl
  Australian Crawl were an Australian rock band founded by James Reyne , Brad Robinson , Paul Williams , Simon Binks and David Reyne in 1978. David Reyne soon left and was replaced by Bill McDonough...
  
   - Phalanx
  Phalanx (album)
  Phalanx is the first live album released by iconic Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. It was recorded live at concerts at Bombay Rock Gold Coast, Queensland and at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in October, 1983, during the 'Semantics' tour. The album was initially released on vinyl in...
  
  - live album
  Live album
  A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
  
  
• Goanna - Oceania Album - Common Ground
• DD Smash - The Optimist
• he Motivators - The Motivators album
• Jim Keays
  Jim Keays
  James "Jim" Keays is an Australian musician who fronted rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player during 1965–1972, and subsequently had a solo career including leading Jim Keays' Southern Cross...
  
   - "Lucifer Street" - Red on the Meter album
• Mark Gillespie - Sweet Nothing album
• Mondo Rock
  Mondo Rock
  Mondo Rock is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia, most prominent in the early 1980s. The band was formed in late 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Ross Wilson.-Early years: 1976–1979:...
  
   - "Come Said the Boy" - The Modern Bop album
• Misex - Shanghaied album -Falling in and Out - -Shanghaied

(Side step into TV)

1990s

Troy Cassar Daley - Beyond The Dancing (ARIA winner)
Cam Fletcher - Kickin Up Dirt
Jimmy Little - Yorta Yorta Man
Jade Hurley -Life -Wouldn't Be Dead For Quids.
Tracey Fogarty - Playing to Win.
Kerry McInerney - Fools Game
Spot The Dog - Drunk On The Moon
Olivia Newton John - Ghia
The Spencer Band - This is Now
Rough Red - Living in Australia

2000s

Kerry Leigh & Expresso Lane.
Dave Cavanagh & Cavo.

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