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Originally playing folk songs, the band found success hard to come by during the beat era and so converted to a more mainstream sound. [2] In 1964, they had a regional hit in the Chicago area of the United States, and in Australia, with a cover of "Don't It Make You Feel Good", a song written and recorded by The Shadows in UK.
Paul Brett (20 June 1947 – 31 January 2024) [1] was an English classic rock guitarist.He played lead guitar with Strawbs (although he was never actually a member), The Overlanders, [2] The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, The Velvet Opera, Tintern Abbey, Fire, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, and Lonnie Donegan. [3]
Gary Rhett Shearston (9 January 1939 – 1 July 2013) was an Australian singer-songwriter and Anglican priest. He was a leading figure of the folk music revival of the 1960s and performed traditional folk songs in an authentic style.
McMicking was the leader of the famed "Overlanders of '62" which traversed the continent in 1862 from Queenston, Canada West in search of gold in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. [3] The party, including McMicking's 2nd youngest brother, Robert Burns McMicking (July 7, 1843 - Nov 27, 1915). [4] [5] left Queenston in April 1862. Having ...
Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified music genres.The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography, but a discography entry for a specific recording will often list such details as the names of the artists involved, the time and place of the recording, the title of the ...
The American success of "Yesterday's Gone" occasioned a re-release of the track in Australia, [8] where it charted over the summer of 1964 with a No. 26 peak, and a major label cover in the UK, where in March 1964 Pye Records released a version of "Yesterday's Gone" recorded by the Overlanders with Tony Hatch producing; the Overlanders' version ...
Overlander or Overlanders may refer to: An Australian name for a drover who herds large mobs of sheep or cattle over long distances, to a market or rail head , or to open up new grazing territory Overlander (train) was a rail service that operated between the cities of Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand
A hit is attributed to the main artist given credit. If a single is released by two artists with the conjunction 'and' or 'versus' then both artists have equal billing (e.g. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP, who have also been credited as Yolanda Be Cool vs. DCUP) [1] and are both counted as having a number one (in this case "We No Speak Americano") whereas if the conjunction between two artists is ...