THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,668) The Kinetics — “Fed-uping Day”
Mellow, melancholy Australian gold from a group featuring future Tin Tin man Steve Groves. He had a heart!
Kimbo:
The Kinetics were a popular band in Melbourne following their formation in 1965. Playing a progressive style of pop/rock, they managed to score a recording contract with the international label CBS although none of their three singles was released outside of Australia. The first single ”Excuses” and third single ”You’re So Good For Me” charted at #18 and #29 respectively on the local Melbourne charts and nationally they peaked just outside the Top 50. The group quickly became popular at local dances. They toured up and down the east coast . . . . Following the band’s last single which charted in July ’67, [vocalist] Steve Groves left, and they changed their name to The Trap adding Yvonne Barrett on vocals. No recorded product eventuated and they disbanded at the end of 1967. Steve Groves relocated to England in 1968 and teamed up with Steve Kipner (ex-Steve & the Board) to form Steve and Stevie [see #1,496] as a vocal harmony duo where they recorded an unsuccessful LP on Toast Records. . . . After Kipner ran into Barry Gibb in 1969, Kipner and Groves were signed to Robert Stigwood with Maurice Gibb as their producer. Under the name Tin Tin [see #355, 1,121], the group scored an international hit, “Toast and Marmalade for Tea,” which was a #10 hit on the Go-Set National Singles Chart and went No. 20 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100. . . . Steve then returned home and played in many low-key Australian bands over the next 30 years. John Vallins went on to co-write the Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams million selling smash “Too Much, Too Little Too Late”.
https://historyofaussiemusic.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-kinetics.html
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