Gerry & The Joy Band - Rave On (1972)

Gerry & The Joy Band's promo-video for the hit single 'Rave On' (a Buddy Holly cover in March, 1972).

Artist(s) Origin: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Produced By:
Engineer: John French
Label: Sparmac
Chart Position:
Release Date: March, 1972
Artist(s) links:
http://www.milesago.com/Obits/gerry-obit.htm
http://www.milesago.com/
Artists/lovedones.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Loved_Ones


Note: This is the group Gerry Humphries had going at the time, a few years after fronting The Loved Ones. This studio line-up consists of the members of Daddy Cool.

Is there anybody else in this studio line-up that has not yet been identified?


Line-up:

Gerry Humphries - Vocals
[ The Red Onions (1964-1965) -- The Loved Ones (1965-1967 -- Gerry & The Joy Band (1972) -- ]

Ross Wilson -- Vocals, Guitar
[ The Pink Finks (1964-1967) -- The Party Machine (1967-1969) -- Sons of the Vegetal Mother (1970) -- Daddy Cool (1970-1972) -- Mighty Kong (1973) -- Daddy Cool reformed (1974-1975) -- Solo Artist (1976) -- Mondo Rock (1976-1991) -- Solo Artist (1989) -- Daddy Cool reformed (1994 and 2005) ]

Ross Hannaford - Guitar, Vocals
[ The Pink Finks (1964-1967) -- The Party Machine (1967-1969) -- Quinn (1968-1969) -- Sons of the Vegetal Mother (1969-1970) -- Daddy Cool (1970-1972) -- Mighty Kong (1973) -- Daddy Cool reformed (1974-1975) -- Diana's Kiss -- Daddy Cool reformed (1994 and 2005) ]

Gary Young - Drums
[Bobby & Laurie/Rondells (mid to late '60's) -- The Changing Times -- Ram Jam Big Band (1968) -- Sons of the Vegetal Mother (1970) -- Daddy Cool (1970-1972) -- Gary Young's Hot Dogs -- Daddy Cool reformed (1974-1975) -- Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (1976-1983) -- Gary Young & The Rockin' Emus (1982) -- Daddy Cool reformed (1994 & 2005) ]

Wayne Duncan - Bass
[Bobby & Laurie/Rondells (mid to late '60's) -- Sons of the Vegetal Mother (1970) -- Daddy Cool (1970-1972) -- Daddy Cool reformed (1974-1975) -- Gary Young's Hot Dogs -- Gulliver's Travels -- Jane Clifton -- Phil Manning -- The Black Sorrows -- The Ross Hannaford Trio]

Margret RoadKnight - Backing Vocalist

Mark Kennedy - Drummer

Gerry Noone - Saxophone

Billy Green (now, Wil Greenstreet) - Guitar


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NZOZ NZOZ1972 1972 Australia Early Seventies 1970's 1970s 70's 70s

Extended Tags: Gerry Humphries, The Loves Ones, Daddy Cool

Musical Terms: Rock, Rock'n'Roll, Aussie, Old Australian Band

Song Sounds Like:

Artist(s) Influence:

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gerry
• The
• Joy
• Band
• 1972
• Australia
• Early
• Seventies

[wilgreenstreet]

Well, I'm so sorry to hear that Nzoz......how do you know that for sure?

[nzoz1972]

@wilgreenstreet

Sadly, Gerry died on the 2nd of December, 2005, in London, due to a heart attack.

Information can be found on google. I was also sorry to hear about this. One of my father's most treasured memories was seeing the Loved Ones live in 1987 and meeting Gerry.

[wilgreenstreet]

Could be nnoz! What do I know.....Gerry always seemed to be just like that to me....you'd have to ask him....not that it matters really!

[nzoz1972]

@wilgreenstreet

I would, but Gerry died 5 years ago!

[wilgreenstreet]

I seem to recall that I was nominated "Producer" on this....there was very little to do, as everyone knew what to do. Essentially, playing on this session were all the members from a popular group at that time called "Daddy Cool" outside of that was Mark Kennedy and myself (Billy Green) aka Wil Greenstreet....John French was the engineer...a very skilled one at that...I worked w/ John a lot....I did the whole film score for Aussie biker movie "Stone" with John.

Gerry was not stoned....

[nzoz1972]

@wilgreenstreet

Excellent, thanks for the info... particularly what you did for the 'Stone' movie...

My dad, who met Gerry backstage after fooling security into thinking he was Gerry & The Loved Ones manager, made comment that Gerry looked high in this clip.

[enrisrestaurant]

my favorite version of this song 35 years ago , and still today the best version , I just got back from europe around '87 and loved his music , 2 days back found myself as a waiter at the AFI awards and saw him perform , i decided then i wanted to be a singer , but one slight problem I cant sing for shit, so I listen every now and then to this song and love his vocal levels sensational stuff

[santanocci]

sweet nzoz fuckin sweet.

[BooksAndWriters]

The female singers were Margret RoadKnight, Barbara Bacon and Pat Woolley.

[bramley1001]

I was filmed at TCS studio Melbourne , that's the great John French engineering.

[wilgreenstreet]

Aaaaaawwww! My heart sinks......! Gerry was so special....a sweet renegade !!!!!