The Dingoes
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The Dingoes are an Australian country rock
band initially active from 1973 to 1979, formed in Melbourne they relocated to the United States from 1976. Most stable line-up was John Bois on bass guitar
, John Lee on drums
, Broderick Smith
on vocals and harmonica
, Chris Stockley on guitar
and Kerryn Tolhurst
on guitar. Mal Logan
on keyboards
joined after Stockley was hospitalised when shot in the stomach by Melbourne drug-dealer, Dennis Allen
, who was attempting to gate crash a party. The Dingoes debut single, "Way Out West", was released in November 1973, which peaked in the top 40 of the Australian Kent Music Report
singles chart. Subsequent singles were "Boy on the Run", "Smooth Sailing" and "Into the Night", which did not reach the top 50. They had three top 40 albums, The Dingoes in 1974, Fives Times the Sun in 1977 and Orphans of the Storm in 1979.
On 27 August 2009, The Dingoes were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association
(ARIA) Hall of Fame
alongside Kev Carmody
, Little Pattie
, Mental As Anything
and John Paul Young
. The Dingoes reformed in late 2009 and released a new album, Tracks in 2010 which was followed by a tour of Australia.
, lead guitarist, mandolin
-player and singer-songwriter
founded Adderley Smith Blues Band in 1964 in Melbourne, which was one of Australia's first authentic blues bands. Lead vocalist
and harmonica
-player Broderick Smith
joined in 1966, both Smith and Tolhurst were conscripted into the Army as part of National Service during the Vietnam War
for two years from 1968 to 1970. Smith was unable to continue with the band but Tolhurst was able to keep a line-up performing, including Joe Camilleri
on saxophone
in 1970. After National Service, Tolhurst formed Sundown, with singer-songwriter Keith Glass, as a country rock group, Smith briefly joined Sundown before going on to blues boogie band, Carson in 1971. After Sundown, Tolhurst joined singer-songwriter Greg Quill
in his country rock
group Country Radio during 1972–1973. Quill and Tolhurst co-wrote their hit singles "Gypsy Queen" and "Wintersong".
Both Carson (with Smith) and Country Radio (before Tolhurst joined) had performed at the inaugural Sunbury Pop Festival in January 1972. At the second festival in January 1973, Carson (with Smith) performed and recorded their set, including a track called "Dingo", which was released on their live album
, On the Air in April. Country Radio (with Tolhurst) had also performed, and live tracks from both bands were included on the first ever Mushroom Records
album, as a triple-LP
, The Great Australian Rock Festival Sunbury 1973. After the 1973 festival, both Smith and Tolhurst left their respective bands. Tolhurst briefly joined Mississippi
which later became Little River Band
. Smith, in March, played the role of "The Father" in the Australian production of the rock opera
Tommy
, which was staged in Sydney and Melbourne.
Guitarist, Chris Stockley (ex-Roadrunners, Delta Set), formed psychedelic rock
group Cam-Pact with Keith Glass in 1967, both had left by late 1969. Stockley joined rock group Axiom
, which had top ten hits with "Arkansas Grass" and "A Little Ray Of Sunshine", before they disbanded in 1971. John Lee (ex-Sayla) had been drummer for Blackfeather
from February to April 1973. John Strangio was bass guitarist for St James Infirmary and Middle Earth.
, Broderick Smith on lead vocals and harmonica
, Chris Stockley on lead guitar
, John Strangio on bass guitar
and Kerryn Tolhurst on guitar and mandolin
, were formed in Melbourne
in April 1973. Strangio left in August and was replaced on bass guitar by John Bois, who had worked with Tolhurst in Country Radio. The Dingoes combined R&B, country
and rock 'n' roll with songs that used Australian themes and imagery.
The Dingoes were an early signing to the fledgling Mushroom Records
label, it issued their debut single "Way Out West" which was credited to Lee, Bois, Smith, Stockley and Tolhurst. A week before the single was released Stockley received a serious gunshot wound during an incident at a party in Melbourne that resulted in a two-month stay in hospital, initially described as an 'accidental shooting', according to music historian
, Ian McFarlane's Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop
, Stockley was shot by convicted drug dealer, Dennis Allen
, who was trying to gate crash the party. An eight-hour benefit concert was held for Stockley on 4 November 1973 at Leggett's Ballroom, Greville Street, Prahran. While recuperating, Stockley was replaced by keyboard
player Mal Logan
(ex Healing Force, Carson), who stayed on, after Stockley returned, until the end of 1974.
Released in October 1973, "Way Out West" peaked into the top 40 on the Kent Music Report
Singles Chart, and reached #26 in Melbourne, it became their signature tune. The Dingoes appeared at the third Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, held on the Australia Day long weekend, and their performance featured on Mushroom's Highlights of Sunbury '74, released later that year. The same month, they recorded their self-titled debut LP, The Dingoes, which was produced by John French. Logan contributed keyboards on several tracks, including "Goin' Down" and "Sydney Ladies". "Way Out West" was later covered
by James Blundell
and James Reyne
(ex-Australian Crawl
) in 1992, their version peaked at #2 on the ARIA Singles Charts
, Smith supplied harmonica for this version.
Lee left in May 1974 to join Ariel
and was replaced on drums by Ray Arnott
, (ex-Cam-Pact with Stockley, Spectrum
, Mighty Kong
). The Dingoes was released in June 1974, along with a second single "Boy on the Run", co-written by Stockley and Smith, which peaked at #24 in Melbourne but did not break into the top 50 nationally. The LP reached #24 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart in July, it was the Federation of Australian Broadcasters' "Album of the Year" for 1974. A non-album single, "Smooth Sailing", written by Tolhurst, and backed with "Dingoes Lament", was released in October. During the year The Dingoes toured nationally with various artists including Bad Company
, Leo Sayer
, Bo Diddley
and Freddy Fender
.
Australian roadie Billy McCartney, who had seen them when visiting from the United States, where he had established himself as a tour manager
for Elvis Presley
and Rod Stewart
. Returning to the US, McCartney recommended the band to Peter Rudge, who was then tour manager for The Rolling Stones
and Lynyrd Skynyrd
, and, after ten months negotiations, Rudge agreed to manage The Dingoes in the US.
The following months frustrated the band—with an expected summons from Rudge at any time, they were unable to commit to long-term tours or to recording—they lost valuable ground in Australia when they could have consolidated on the success of the LP and singles. Meanwhile, they provided two tracks, "Marijuana Hell" and the Percy Sledge
cover "When a Man Loves a Woman" to the Various Artists live album
Live at the Station which was released on Lamington Records in 1976. An American tour was finally arranged for mid-1976, by the time they arrived Rudge's attention was focused on Lynyrd Skynyrd. Just prior to leaving, Arnott quit the group by "mutual agreement" and Lee returned to the fold, meeting up with the band in North America. Arnott pursued a solo career and was later with Renée Geyer Band
, Cold Chisel
and Jimmy Barnes
.
The Dingoes signed a two-album deal with US-based, A&M records
, on recommendations from McCartney and Rudge, and undertook three months of rehearsals in Canada, then headed for the US, where they set up base in Mill Valley, Northern California, at the start of 1977. They recorded tracks for their A&M album, Five Times the Sun, in San Francisco during January and February, produced by Elliot Mazer
(Janis Joplin
, Neil Young
), with session contributions from keyboardists Nicky Hopkins
and Garth Hudson
; it featured liner notes
by author Emmett Grogan
. Five Times the Sun, which peaked at #25 on the Australian albums chart in August, included re-recorded versions of tracks from their first album. "Way Out West" and "Smooth Sailing", released in September, as a double A-single in Australia, did not peak into the top 50. Soon after, band members were granted their prized green cards
, allowing them to base themselves in US, in their two-year stay they toured 40 states by road. A serious blow to the band's future came on 20 October when several members of proposed tour mates, Lynyrd Skynyrd, were killed in a plane crash
, a tragedy which destroyed the morale of The Dingoes' management team.
Stockley left the band and returned to Australia in early 1978, initially he joined Greg Quill's new band Southern Cross, and later founded Stockley, See & Mason. He was replaced in The Dingoes by American session guitarist Andrew Jeffers-Hardin, the group had moved east and settled near Woodstock, in upstate New York. In mid-1978, they recorded a third album, Orphans of the Storm, at New York's famed The Hit Factory
, and continued to tour around the US until late 1978, but their efforts to enter the US record charts were unrealised. Orphans Of The Storm was released in February 1979, along with a final single, "Into the Night", but by this time Smith had returned to Australia and The Dingoes had split.
They are touring with Joe Cocker in Australia for the 2011 "Day on the Green" concerts.
, Blue Heelers
and State Coroner
. He worked in an acoustic duo with musical partner Mick Ahearne and played harmonica with Backsliders
, alternating with Ian Collard (Collard, Greens and Gravy) as a replacement for founding member Jim Conway.
Bois, Lee and Tolhurst, all remained in the US. Bois became a teacher, he lived and worked near Washington DC, as a noted amateur expert on dinosaur
s he contributed to the BBC TV series Walking with Dinosaurs
; he wrote an unpublished memoir of his time in The Dingoes, entitled The Dingoes' Lament (named after his track on their debut album).
Lee joined the cult band, Root Boy Slim & His Sex Change Band, then settled in Washington DC for some time, where he worked with local group Johnny Bombay & the Hurricanes before moving to Nashville, Tennessee
, until his return to Australia in the late 1990s, he died in July 1999.
Tolhurst lived and worked in New York for many years, and continued his career as a songwriter, performer and producer, both in Australia and in the US. A reworked version of his song "All Fired Up" became a major hit for Pat Benatar
in 1988, making the Top 20 in the USA and reaching #2 in Australia, where it was #16 on the End of Year Singles Chart. In 1995, Tolhurst collaborated with Paul Kelly
on his Deeper Water
album, co-writing the single "Give in to My Love", and writing the album track "Difficult Woman", which was later covered by Renée Geyer
. He was a guest performer in the "Spirit Returns" music program, which featured the reformed Goanna
, Ross Hannaford
(ex-Daddy Cool
) and Liam O'Maonlai (Hothouse Flowers
) at the Melbourne Festival in 1998. In 1999, Tolhurst returned to live in Australia and produced the debut album for country singer Cyndi Boste; he also reunited with Greg Quill and they subsequently recorded the album, So Rudely Interrupted.
(ARIA) Hall of Fame
alongside Kev Carmody
, Little Pattie
, Mental As Anything
and John Paul Young
. They were inducted into the Hall of Fame by Richard Clapton
and performed "Way Out West" and "Boy on the Run". Melbourne drummer Ashley Davies (ex-Wild Pumpkins At Midnight
) joined Bois, Smith, Stockley and Tolhurst in the reformed group which recorded Tracks in late 2009 and early 2010. The new album was released on 6 August 2010, coinciding with an Australia tour, it debuted at No. 14 on the ARIA Country Music Top 20 Chart. In October 2010, their debut album, The Dingoes (1974) was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums
.
Country rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...
band initially active from 1973 to 1979, formed in Melbourne they relocated to the United States from 1976. Most stable line-up was John Bois on bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, John Lee on drums
Drum kit
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, Broderick Smith
Broderick Smith
Broderick Smith aka Brod Smith is an Australian singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar and banjo player. He was a member of 1970s bands Carson and The Dingoes, 1980s Broderick Smith's Big Combo and performed solo...
on vocals and harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
, Chris Stockley on guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and Kerryn Tolhurst
Kerryn Tolhurst
Kerryn Tolhurst is a noted Australian musician and songwriter who was based in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s.His musical career began in Melbourne with the Adderly Smith Blues Band. He subsequently joined Sundown, led by Keith Glass, which was one of Australia's first country-rock groups...
on guitar. Mal Logan
Mal Logan
Malcolm Ian Logan, AC is an Australian geographer and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Monash University from 1987-1996.Logan grew up in country New South Wales, attending secondary school in the remote town of Tamworth. He moved to Sydney to complete an honours degree in...
on keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
joined after Stockley was hospitalised when shot in the stomach by Melbourne drug-dealer, Dennis Allen
Dennis Allen
Dennis Allen was a Melbourne based drug dealer who was reported to have murdered many victims. He was the oldest son of criminal matriarch Kath Pettingill. He died of heart disease in 1987 in prison custody awaiting trial for murder....
, who was attempting to gate crash a party. The Dingoes debut single, "Way Out West", was released in November 1973, which peaked in the top 40 of the Australian Kent Music Report
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998...
singles chart. Subsequent singles were "Boy on the Run", "Smooth Sailing" and "Into the Night", which did not reach the top 50. They had three top 40 albums, The Dingoes in 1974, Fives Times the Sun in 1977 and Orphans of the Storm in 1979.
On 27 August 2009, The Dingoes were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...
(ARIA) Hall of Fame
ARIA Hall of Fame
Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association has inducted artists into its ARIA Hall of Fame. While most have been recognised at the annual ARIA Music Awards, in 2005 ARIA sought to create a separate standalone "ARIA Icons: Hall of Fame" event as only one or two acts could be inducted...
alongside Kev Carmody
Kev Carmody
Kevin Daniel "Kev" Carmody is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter. His song "From Little Things Big Things Grow" was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single; it was covered by the Get Up Mob in 2008 and peaked at #4 on the Australian Recording Industry Association singles...
, Little Pattie
Little Pattie
Little Pattie is the stage name of Australian singer, Patricia Thelma Amphlett OAM later Patricia Thompson, who performed as a 1960s surf pop singer and then in adult contemporary music...
, Mental As Anything
Mental As Anything
Mental As Anything are an Australian New Wave–rock music band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Their most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird"...
and John Paul Young
John Paul Young
John Paul Young is an Australian pop singer who had a 1978 worldwide hit with "Love Is in the Air"...
. The Dingoes reformed in late 2009 and released a new album, Tracks in 2010 which was followed by a tour of Australia.
Previous bands
Kerryn TolhurstKerryn Tolhurst
Kerryn Tolhurst is a noted Australian musician and songwriter who was based in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s.His musical career began in Melbourne with the Adderly Smith Blues Band. He subsequently joined Sundown, led by Keith Glass, which was one of Australia's first country-rock groups...
, lead guitarist, mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
-player and singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
founded Adderley Smith Blues Band in 1964 in Melbourne, which was one of Australia's first authentic blues bands. Lead vocalist
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
and harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
-player Broderick Smith
Broderick Smith
Broderick Smith aka Brod Smith is an Australian singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar and banjo player. He was a member of 1970s bands Carson and The Dingoes, 1980s Broderick Smith's Big Combo and performed solo...
joined in 1966, both Smith and Tolhurst were conscripted into the Army as part of National Service during the Vietnam War
Military history of Australia during the Vietnam War
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began as a small commitment of 30 men in 1962, and increased over the following decade to a peak of 7,672 Australians deployed in South Vietnam or in support of Australian forces there. The Vietnam War was the longest and most controversial war Australia...
for two years from 1968 to 1970. Smith was unable to continue with the band but Tolhurst was able to keep a line-up performing, including Joe Camilleri
Joe Camilleri
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Camilleri, aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent, is an Australian vocalist, songwriter and saxophonist. Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows...
on saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
in 1970. After National Service, Tolhurst formed Sundown, with singer-songwriter Keith Glass, as a country rock group, Smith briefly joined Sundown before going on to blues boogie band, Carson in 1971. After Sundown, Tolhurst joined singer-songwriter 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:...
in his country rock
Country rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...
group Country Radio during 1972–1973. Quill and Tolhurst co-wrote their hit singles "Gypsy Queen" and "Wintersong".
Both Carson (with Smith) and Country Radio (before Tolhurst joined) had performed at the inaugural Sunbury Pop Festival in January 1972. At the second festival in January 1973, Carson (with Smith) performed and recorded their set, including a track called "Dingo", which was released on their 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...
, On the Air in April. Country Radio (with Tolhurst) had also performed, and live tracks from both bands were included on the first ever Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...
album, as a triple-LP
LP album
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, The Great Australian Rock Festival Sunbury 1973. After the 1973 festival, both Smith and Tolhurst left their respective bands. Tolhurst briefly joined Mississippi
Mississippi (band)
Mississippi was an Australian band , which featured some big names in Australian rock music, Graeham Goble, Beeb Birtles and Kerryn Tolhurst...
which later became Little River Band
Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975.The group chose the name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance. Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success in not only...
. Smith, in March, played the role of "The Father" in the Australian production of the rock opera
Rock opera
A rock opera is a work of rock music that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections in the manner of opera. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. More recent developments include...
Tommy
Tommy (rock opera)
Tommy is the fourth album by English rock band The Who, released by Track Records and Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Decca Records/MCA in the United States. A double album telling a loose story about a "deaf, dumb and blind boy" who becomes the leader of a messianic movement, Tommy was...
, which was staged in Sydney and Melbourne.
Guitarist, Chris Stockley (ex-Roadrunners, Delta Set), formed psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
group Cam-Pact with Keith Glass in 1967, both had left by late 1969. Stockley joined rock group Axiom
Axiom (Australian band)
Axiom were a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1969 and included musicians Glenn Shorrock and Brian Cadd.-Biography:Axiom's formation was a by-product of the annual Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds in which the top Australian bands of the day performed in front of judges for the prize of a...
, which had top ten hits with "Arkansas Grass" and "A Little Ray Of Sunshine", before they disbanded in 1971. John Lee (ex-Sayla) had been drummer for Blackfeather
Blackfeather
Blackfeather was an Australian rock group in the 1970s. The group had many members and went through two major incarnations - the earlier heavy rock version of the group, which recorded the album At The Mountains of Madness and the hit single "Seasons of Change", and the later piano-based lineup...
from February to April 1973. John Strangio was bass guitarist for St James Infirmary and Middle Earth.
Formation and early years
The Dingoes with John Lee on drumsDrum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, Broderick Smith on lead vocals and harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
, Chris Stockley on lead guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, John Strangio on bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and Kerryn Tolhurst on guitar and mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, were formed in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
in April 1973. Strangio left in August and was replaced on bass guitar by John Bois, who had worked with Tolhurst in Country Radio. The Dingoes combined R&B, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
and rock 'n' roll with songs that used Australian themes and imagery.
The Dingoes were an early signing to the fledgling Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...
label, it issued their debut single "Way Out West" which was credited to Lee, Bois, Smith, Stockley and Tolhurst. A week before the single was released Stockley received a serious gunshot wound during an incident at a party in Melbourne that resulted in a two-month stay in hospital, initially described as an 'accidental shooting', according to music historian
Music history
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time...
, Ian McFarlane's Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop
Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop
The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s...
, Stockley was shot by convicted drug dealer, Dennis Allen
Dennis Allen
Dennis Allen was a Melbourne based drug dealer who was reported to have murdered many victims. He was the oldest son of criminal matriarch Kath Pettingill. He died of heart disease in 1987 in prison custody awaiting trial for murder....
, who was trying to gate crash the party. An eight-hour benefit concert was held for Stockley on 4 November 1973 at Leggett's Ballroom, Greville Street, Prahran. While recuperating, Stockley was replaced by keyboard
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
player Mal Logan
Mal Logan
Malcolm Ian Logan, AC is an Australian geographer and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Monash University from 1987-1996.Logan grew up in country New South Wales, attending secondary school in the remote town of Tamworth. He moved to Sydney to complete an honours degree in...
(ex Healing Force, Carson), who stayed on, after Stockley returned, until the end of 1974.
Released in October 1973, "Way Out West" peaked into the top 40 on the Kent Music Report
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998...
Singles Chart, and reached #26 in Melbourne, it became their signature tune. The Dingoes appeared at the third Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, held on the Australia Day long weekend, and their performance featured on Mushroom's Highlights of Sunbury '74, released later that year. The same month, they recorded their self-titled debut LP, The Dingoes, which was produced by John French. Logan contributed keyboards on several tracks, including "Goin' Down" and "Sydney Ladies". "Way Out West" was later covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
by James Blundell
James Blundell (singer)
-Music:He won a Golden Guitar Award for best new talent of 1987.Blundell's eponymous first album, in 1989, followed up by "Hand It Down", which was released in the United States in 1990 following its success in Australia. Successive albums were This Road and Touch of Water. This Road included the...
and James Reyne
James Reyne
James Reyne is an Australian rock musician and singer/songwriter both as a member of the iconic 1980s band Australian Crawl and solo work.. He is a successful singer/ songwriter and prolific artist...
(ex-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...
) in 1992, their version peaked at #2 on the ARIA Singles Charts
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, Smith supplied harmonica for this version.
Lee left in May 1974 to join Ariel
Ariel (band)
Ariel was an Australian progressive rock band based around the duo Mike Rudd and Bill Putt, who formed the band in 1973 after the breakup of their previous group Spectrum . The original Ariel line-up was Rudd , Putt , Tim Gaze , Nigel Macara and John Mills...
and was replaced on drums by Ray Arnott
Ray Arnott
Raymond "Ray" Walter Arnott is an Australian rock drummer, singer-songwriter, he was a member of Spectrum , which had a number one hit with "I'll Be Gone" in January 1971...
, (ex-Cam-Pact with Stockley, Spectrum
Spectrum (band)
Spectrum is an Australian progressive rock band that formed in Melbourne in 1969 and, in its original period, remained in existence until 1973. Its members also performed under the alter-ego Indelible Murtceps...
, Mighty Kong
Mighty Kong (band)
Mighty Kong were an Australian 'supergroup' successor to Daddy Cool, which broke up in August 1972. It was also the fifth in the line of groups that featured singer-songwriter Ross Wilson and guitarist Ross Hannaford, which began with Pink Finks in 1965...
). The Dingoes was released in June 1974, along with a second single "Boy on the Run", co-written by Stockley and Smith, which peaked at #24 in Melbourne but did not break into the top 50 nationally. The LP reached #24 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart in July, it was the Federation of Australian Broadcasters' "Album of the Year" for 1974. A non-album single, "Smooth Sailing", written by Tolhurst, and backed with "Dingoes Lament", was released in October. During the year The Dingoes toured nationally with various artists including Bad Company
Bad Company
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, Leo Sayer
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, Bo Diddley
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and Freddy Fender
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.
North America
Early in 1975, after appearing at the fourth Sunbury Pop Festival, The Dingoes received a phone call from expatriateExpatriate
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Australian roadie Billy McCartney, who had seen them when visiting from the United States, where he had established himself as a tour manager
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for Elvis Presley
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and Rod Stewart
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. Returning to the US, McCartney recommended the band to Peter Rudge, who was then tour manager for The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
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and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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, and, after ten months negotiations, Rudge agreed to manage The Dingoes in the US.
The following months frustrated the band—with an expected summons from Rudge at any time, they were unable to commit to long-term tours or to recording—they lost valuable ground in Australia when they could have consolidated on the success of the LP and singles. Meanwhile, they provided two tracks, "Marijuana Hell" and the Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge
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cover "When a Man Loves a Woman" to the Various Artists live album
Live album
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Live at the Station which was released on Lamington Records in 1976. An American tour was finally arranged for mid-1976, by the time they arrived Rudge's attention was focused on Lynyrd Skynyrd. Just prior to leaving, Arnott quit the group by "mutual agreement" and Lee returned to the fold, meeting up with the band in North America. Arnott pursued a solo career and was later with Renée Geyer Band
Renée Geyer
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, Cold Chisel
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and Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes
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.
The Dingoes signed a two-album deal with US-based, A&M records
A&M Records
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, on recommendations from McCartney and Rudge, and undertook three months of rehearsals in Canada, then headed for the US, where they set up base in Mill Valley, Northern California, at the start of 1977. They recorded tracks for their A&M album, Five Times the Sun, in San Francisco during January and February, produced by Elliot Mazer
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(Janis Joplin
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, Neil Young
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), with session contributions from keyboardists Nicky Hopkins
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and Garth Hudson
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; it featured liner notes
Liner notes
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by author Emmett Grogan
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. Five Times the Sun, which peaked at #25 on the Australian albums chart in August, included re-recorded versions of tracks from their first album. "Way Out West" and "Smooth Sailing", released in September, as a double A-single in Australia, did not peak into the top 50. Soon after, band members were granted their prized green cards
United States Permanent Resident Card
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, allowing them to base themselves in US, in their two-year stay they toured 40 states by road. A serious blow to the band's future came on 20 October when several members of proposed tour mates, Lynyrd Skynyrd, were killed in a plane crash
1977 Convair 240 crash
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, a tragedy which destroyed the morale of The Dingoes' management team.
Stockley left the band and returned to Australia in early 1978, initially he joined Greg Quill's new band Southern Cross, and later founded Stockley, See & Mason. He was replaced in The Dingoes by American session guitarist Andrew Jeffers-Hardin, the group had moved east and settled near Woodstock, in upstate New York. In mid-1978, they recorded a third album, Orphans of the Storm, at New York's famed The Hit Factory
The Hit Factory
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, and continued to tour around the US until late 1978, but their efforts to enter the US record charts were unrealised. Orphans Of The Storm was released in February 1979, along with a final single, "Into the Night", but by this time Smith had returned to Australia and The Dingoes had split.
They are touring with Joe Cocker in Australia for the 2011 "Day on the Green" concerts.
After The Dingoes
Smith came back to Australia in late 1978 and fronted his own bands including Broderick Smith's Big Combo. He branched out into TV acting with appearances in the Australian series Janus, Law of the Land, Snowy River: The McGregor SagaThe Man From Snowy River (TV series)
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, Blue Heelers
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and State Coroner
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. He worked in an acoustic duo with musical partner Mick Ahearne and played harmonica with Backsliders
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, alternating with Ian Collard (Collard, Greens and Gravy) as a replacement for founding member Jim Conway.
Bois, Lee and Tolhurst, all remained in the US. Bois became a teacher, he lived and worked near Washington DC, as a noted amateur expert on dinosaur
Dinosaur
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s he contributed to the BBC TV series Walking with Dinosaurs
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; he wrote an unpublished memoir of his time in The Dingoes, entitled The Dingoes' Lament (named after his track on their debut album).
Lee joined the cult band, Root Boy Slim & His Sex Change Band, then settled in Washington DC for some time, where he worked with local group Johnny Bombay & the Hurricanes before moving to Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
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, until his return to Australia in the late 1990s, he died in July 1999.
Tolhurst lived and worked in New York for many years, and continued his career as a songwriter, performer and producer, both in Australia and in the US. A reworked version of his song "All Fired Up" became a major hit for Pat Benatar
Pat Benatar
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in 1988, making the Top 20 in the USA and reaching #2 in Australia, where it was #16 on the End of Year Singles Chart. In 1995, Tolhurst collaborated with Paul Kelly
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on his Deeper Water
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album, co-writing the single "Give in to My Love", and writing the album track "Difficult Woman", which was later covered by Renée Geyer
Renée Geyer
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. He was a guest performer in the "Spirit Returns" music program, which featured the reformed Goanna
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, Ross Hannaford
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(ex-Daddy Cool
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) and Liam O'Maonlai (Hothouse Flowers
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) at the Melbourne Festival in 1998. In 1999, Tolhurst returned to live in Australia and produced the debut album for country singer Cyndi Boste; he also reunited with Greg Quill and they subsequently recorded the album, So Rudely Interrupted.
Reformation
On 27 August 2009, The Dingoes were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry AssociationAustralian Recording Industry Association
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(ARIA) Hall of Fame
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alongside Kev Carmody
Kev Carmody
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, Little Pattie
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, Mental As Anything
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and John Paul Young
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. They were inducted into the Hall of Fame by Richard Clapton
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and performed "Way Out West" and "Boy on the Run". Melbourne drummer Ashley Davies (ex-Wild Pumpkins At Midnight
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) joined Bois, Smith, Stockley and Tolhurst in the reformed group which recorded Tracks in late 2009 and early 2010. The new album was released on 6 August 2010, coinciding with an Australia tour, it debuted at No. 14 on the ARIA Country Music Top 20 Chart. In October 2010, their debut album, The Dingoes (1974) was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums
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.
Members
- John Lee – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, backing vocals (1973–1974, 1976–1979) - Broderick SmithBroderick SmithBroderick Smith aka Brod Smith is an Australian singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar and banjo player. He was a member of 1970s bands Carson and The Dingoes, 1980s Broderick Smith's Big Combo and performed solo...
– lead vocals, harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
(1973–1979, 2009–present) - Chris Stockley – lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, vocals (1973–1978, 2009–present) - John Strangio – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(1973) - Kerryn TolhurstKerryn TolhurstKerryn Tolhurst is a noted Australian musician and songwriter who was based in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s.His musical career began in Melbourne with the Adderly Smith Blues Band. He subsequently joined Sundown, led by Keith Glass, which was one of Australia's first country-rock groups...
– guitar, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, vocals (1973–1979, 2009–present) - Mal Logan – keyboards (1973–1974)
- Ray ArnottRay ArnottRaymond "Ray" Walter Arnott is an Australian rock drummer, singer-songwriter, he was a member of Spectrum , which had a number one hit with "I'll Be Gone" in January 1971...
– drums, backing vocals (1974–1976) - John Bois – bass guitar, lead guitar, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, vocals (1973–1979, 2009–present) - Andrew Jeffers-Hardin – guitar (1978–1979)
- Ashley Davies – drums (2009–present)
Albums
| Year | Album details | Chart peak positions (AUS Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998... ) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Dingoes
|
24 | |
| 1977 | Five Times the Sun
A&M Records A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:... (L36237) |
25 | |
| 1979 | Orphans of the Storm
|
32 | |
| 1992 | Way Out West - The Best of The Dingoes
|
— | |
| 1995 | Five Times the Sun ... and Other Delicacies
|
— | |
| 2010 | Tracks
Liberation Music Liberation Music is a boutique, independent Australasian record company, started in 1999 by Michael Gudinski and Warren Costello. Its stated aim is to find, nurture and then to develop new talent for a world market while remaining independent in the process... (LMCD 0107) |
84 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
Singles
Other appearances
| Year | Song contributed | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | "When a Man Loves a Woman When a Man Loves a Woman (song) "When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. It was listed 54th in the List of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest songs of all time... " (Percy Sledge Percy Sledge Percy Sledge is an American R&B and soul performer who recorded the hit "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966.-Early career:... cover) |
Live at the Station |
| "Marijuana Hell" (live version) | Live at the Station |
External links
- [ The Dingoes] at AllMusic
- The Dingoes discography at MusicBrainzMusicBrainzMusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...
- The Dingoes at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- The Dingoes at Milesago