Merril Bainbridge
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Merril Bainbridge is an Australian pop music
singer and songwriter
. Her debut was in 1994 with the single, "Mouth
", which peaked at number-one for six consecutive weeks in Australia and became a top five hit in the United States
.
's newly-formed Gotham Records label. Fraser first heard Bainbridge when he received a tape in the mail and was interested by the combination of voice and guitar. "Mouth
" was Bainbridge's debut release and the first song released from her debut album The Garden
by Gotham Records. "Mouth" was released in Australia on November 1994 but was lost in the Christmas shuffle. It was reissued in February 1995 where it came to be the biggest song of Bainbridge's career, peaking at number-one in Australia for six consecutive weeks before becoming the fourth highest selling single in Australia for 1995. The second song released from The Garden was "Under the Water
" which is a song about a lover who drowned, released in Australia in June 1995. The song was not as big as "Mouth" but was still successful peaking at number four in Australia and accrediting platinum by ARIA
. The Garden was released in Australia on 31 July 1995, where it debuted at its peak position at number five on the Australian ARIA
Albums Chart and certifying two times platinum selling 140,000 copies around Australia. On October 1995 the third song off the album was released titled "Power of One
" which was not as big but still charted in Australia at number twenty-one. The ninth annual ARIA Awards saw Bainbridge nominated for five awards including "Best Pop Release", "Breakthrough Artist - Single", "Best New Talent", "Single of the Year" and "Best Female Artist" but failed to win the awards. The fourth and final song "Sleeping Dogs" was released in Australia in February 1996 and featured Bee Gees
song "I Started a Joke" which was used for the bridge of the track. The song only peaked at number fifty-five in Australia.
Marc Nathan signed Bainbridge to the Universal Music record label in the United States by 1996. "Mouth" was released in the United States on 20 August 1996 and became the most requested song on American radio for three weeks. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100
at number sixty-seven and after twelve weeks, the song peaked at number four. It spent a total of thirty weeks in the charts selling 600,000 copies and earning a gold single. The Garden was released on 24 September 1996 and debut on the Billboard 200
at number one hundred and sixty-one and after six weeks just missing the top one hundred it peaked at its peak position of one hundred and one. "Mouth" was the only release that Bainbridge released in the United Kingdom. It was released in November 1996 but did not show great success peaking at number fifty-one and spending eight weeks in the top two hundred. At the end of 1996 saw Bainbridge toured thirty cities in the U.S. for forty days and she presented an award at the Billboard Awards. She also performed at Madison Square Garden
s supporting American singer Sheryl Crow
. "Under the Water" was released in the United States on 18 February 1997 and at first debut at number seven on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and after two weeks it broke into the Billboard Hot 100 at number ninety-seven. It took the song four weeks to reach its peak position of number ninety-one and fell out of the chart from then on spending six weeks in the Hot 100.
which she refers to it being a place she found herself when she was working on the album. The first single released from the album was "Lonely
" which received wide radio airplay on FOX FM
upon its release but only managed a peak at forty in Australia, number eighteen on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and number twenty-five in Japan. Later that year, she released a cover of "I Got You Babe
" featuring a small contribution from Shaggy
(which appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Welcome to Woop Woop
), the song only reached number sixty-two in Australia. Two more songs were released from the album "Between the Days" and "Walk on Fire" but both failed to chart.
In 1999 Bainbridge participated in John Farnham
's "I Can't Believe He's 50" tour with Kate Ceberano
, Ross Wilson, James Reyne
, Human Nature
, and Nana-Zhami, she covered Farnham's tracks "Burn for You" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
".
In 1999 Merril Bainbridge recorded "Sydney from a 747", a song written and previously recorded by fellow antipodean Paul Kelly
. The track appeared on the soundtrack of the IMAX
film Sydney - A Story of a City and was released as part of an official music compilation for the Sydney 2000 Olympic games entitled "Olympic Record" (WEA Australia, 2000). This album is currently out of print.
which is featured on its soundtrack. Bainbridge attempted a comeback in 2003 with the song "Girl Next Door" and an album which was untitled but the song failed to chart and so the album got shelved. She is often mentioned in "Where Are They Now?
" lists on television. She has been working backstage as a composer for other Australian pop artists.
"—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart.
1 U.S. chart positions outside of the Billboard Hot 100 are according to Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
chart. The "bubbling under" chart only represents the twenty-five singles below the Hot 100's number 100 position which have not yet appeared on the Hot 100.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
. Her debut was in 1994 with the single, "Mouth
Mouth (song)
"Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on...
", which peaked at number-one for six consecutive weeks in Australia and became a top five hit in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Early career
Bainbridge started performing when she was at the age of nine and her first performance was at a carnival and her sisters persuaded her into entering, because the prize was free carnival tickets. She came third and won twenty dollars worth of tickets. After six years of performing in a variety of bands in Australia, and doing backup vocal work in exchange for studio time, Bainbridge began a solo career under the tutelage of producer Siew. Bainbridge stated that she and Siew "really connected well, from a creative point. I liked the way he worked and I knew I had so much more to learn in that environment [and] that's how it started. That was the point where I started feeling a lot more confident as a singer and then wanting to dive more into the songwriting side." She also worked a day job before quitting to concentrate solely on music.The Garden: 1994–1997
In 1994 Bainbridge was signed to Ross Fraser and John FarnhamJohn 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...
's newly-formed Gotham Records label. Fraser first heard Bainbridge when he received a tape in the mail and was interested by the combination of voice and guitar. "Mouth
Mouth (song)
"Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on...
" was Bainbridge's debut release and the first song released from her debut album The Garden
The Garden (Merril Bainbridge album)
The Garden is the first album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 31 July 1995 by Gotham Records. The album has a main genre of alternative pop songs — some written by Bainbridge herself, Owen Bolwell, Stan Paulzen and Siew...
by Gotham Records. "Mouth" was released in Australia on November 1994 but was lost in the Christmas shuffle. It was reissued in February 1995 where it came to be the biggest song of Bainbridge's career, peaking at number-one in Australia for six consecutive weeks before becoming the fourth highest selling single in Australia for 1995. The second song released from The Garden was "Under the Water
Under the Water
"Under the Water" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, Owen Bolwell and Stan Paulzen, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's first album The Garden . It was released as the album's second single in July 1995 in Australia and February 1997 in the United States...
" which is a song about a lover who drowned, released in Australia in June 1995. The song was not as big as "Mouth" but was still successful peaking at number four in Australia and accrediting platinum by ARIA
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...
. The Garden was released in Australia on 31 July 1995, where it debuted at its peak position at number five on the Australian ARIA
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...
Albums Chart and certifying two times platinum selling 140,000 copies around Australia. On October 1995 the third song off the album was released titled "Power of One
Power of One (song)
"Power of One" is a pop ballad written by Merril Bainbridge and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's third single in October 1995 in Australia as a CD single...
" which was not as big but still charted in Australia at number twenty-one. The ninth annual ARIA Awards saw Bainbridge nominated for five awards including "Best Pop Release", "Breakthrough Artist - Single", "Best New Talent", "Single of the Year" and "Best Female Artist" but failed to win the awards. The fourth and final song "Sleeping Dogs" was released in Australia in February 1996 and featured Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
song "I Started a Joke" which was used for the bridge of the track. The song only peaked at number fifty-five in Australia.
Marc Nathan signed Bainbridge to the Universal Music record label in the United States by 1996. "Mouth" was released in the United States on 20 August 1996 and became the most requested song on American radio for three weeks. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
at number sixty-seven and after twelve weeks, the song peaked at number four. It spent a total of thirty weeks in the charts selling 600,000 copies and earning a gold single. The Garden was released on 24 September 1996 and debut on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
at number one hundred and sixty-one and after six weeks just missing the top one hundred it peaked at its peak position of one hundred and one. "Mouth" was the only release that Bainbridge released in the United Kingdom. It was released in November 1996 but did not show great success peaking at number fifty-one and spending eight weeks in the top two hundred. At the end of 1996 saw Bainbridge toured thirty cities in the U.S. for forty days and she presented an award at the Billboard Awards. She also performed at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
s supporting American singer Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...
. "Under the Water" was released in the United States on 18 February 1997 and at first debut at number seven on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and after two weeks it broke into the Billboard Hot 100 at number ninety-seven. It took the song four weeks to reach its peak position of number ninety-one and fell out of the chart from then on spending six weeks in the Hot 100.
Between the Days: 1998–1999
While Bainbridge was completing her first international tour, she started writing the album Between the DaysBetween the Days
Between the Days is the second album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 5 October 1998 by Gotham Records. Bainbridge co-wrote most of the album with Owen Bolwell, who also produced the album with Siew and Sam Melamed...
which she refers to it being a place she found herself when she was working on the album. The first single released from the album was "Lonely
Lonely (Merril Bainbridge song)
"Lonely" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge and Owen Bolwell, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's second album Between the Days . It was released as the album's first single in Australia in April 1998 and the United States and Japan in August 1998 as a CD single...
" which received wide radio airplay on FOX FM
FOX FM (Melbourne)
Fox FM is a radio station that serves the Melbourne, Australia, broadcasting on the FM band at a frequency of 101.9 MHz. Licensed to Mount Dandenong, Victoria, the station is currently owned by the Austereo Radio Network. The station's transmitter is located on the ATV-10 transmission tower on top...
upon its release but only managed a peak at forty in Australia, number eighteen on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and number twenty-five in Japan. Later that year, she released a cover of "I Got You Babe
I Got You Babe
"I Got You Babe" is a 1965 #1 single by American pop music duo Sonny & Cher.-Background and composition:Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the lyrics to and composed the music of the song for himself and his then-wife, Cher, late at night in their basement. Session...
" featuring a small contribution from Shaggy
Shaggy (musician)
Orville Richard Burrell , better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer and rapper. He is perhaps best known for his 1995 single "Boombastic" and 2000 single "It Wasn't Me"...
(which appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Welcome to Woop Woop
Welcome to Woop Woop
Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian-British comedy film, directed by Stephan Elliott starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy...
), the song only reached number sixty-two in Australia. Two more songs were released from the album "Between the Days" and "Walk on Fire" but both failed to chart.
In 1999 Bainbridge participated in 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...
's "I Can't Believe He's 50" tour with Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...
, Ross Wilson, 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...
, Human Nature
Human Nature (band)
Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group. The group was originally formed as a doo-wop band in 1989 while the current members were at school together in Sydney. So far, the band has had 17 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits in Australia since 1996 when their first album Telling Everybody was...
, and Nana-Zhami, she covered Farnham's tracks "Burn for You" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...
".
In 1999 Merril Bainbridge recorded "Sydney from a 747", a song written and previously recorded by fellow antipodean Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (musician)
Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
. The track appeared on the soundtrack of the IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
film Sydney - A Story of a City and was released as part of an official music compilation for the Sydney 2000 Olympic games entitled "Olympic Record" (WEA Australia, 2000). This album is currently out of print.
2000–present
In 2000 Bainbridge recorded a song named "Friends" for the Australian film The Magic PuddingThe Magic Pudding
The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is an Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantasy, and a classic of Australian children's literature....
which is featured on its soundtrack. Bainbridge attempted a comeback in 2003 with the song "Girl Next Door" and an album which was untitled but the song failed to chart and so the album got shelved. She is often mentioned in "Where Are They Now?
Where Are They Now?
Where Are They Now? is a television show that airs on Australia's Seven Network. It is hosted by Melissa Doyle and David Koch, the main presenters of Seven's breakfast television program Sunrise.-Premise:...
" lists on television. She has been working backstage as a composer for other Australian pop artists.
Albums
| Year | Album details | Chart peak positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| AUS 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... |
NZ New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... |
U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| 1995 | The Garden The Garden (Merril Bainbridge album) The Garden is the first album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 31 July 1995 by Gotham Records. The album has a main genre of alternative pop songs — some written by Bainbridge herself, Owen Bolwell, Stan Paulzen and Siew...
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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... : 2× Platinum |
| 1998 | Between the Days Between the Days Between the Days is the second album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 5 October 1998 by Gotham Records. Bainbridge co-wrote most of the album with Owen Bolwell, who also produced the album with Siew and Sam Melamed... Studio album A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or... |
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Singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||
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| AUS 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... |
JPN Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
NZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
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| 1994 | "Mouth Mouth (song) "Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on... " |
1 | — | 17 | 51 | 4 | The Garden The Garden (Merril Bainbridge album) The Garden is the first album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 31 July 1995 by Gotham Records. The album has a main genre of alternative pop songs — some written by Bainbridge herself, Owen Bolwell, Stan Paulzen and Siew... |
| 1995 | "Under the Water Under the Water "Under the Water" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, Owen Bolwell and Stan Paulzen, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's first album The Garden . It was released as the album's second single in July 1995 in Australia and February 1997 in the United States... " |
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| "Power of One Power of One (song) "Power of One" is a pop ballad written by Merril Bainbridge and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's third single in October 1995 in Australia as a CD single... " |
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| 1996 | "Sleeping Dogs" | 55 | |||||
| 1998 | "Lonely Lonely (Merril Bainbridge song) "Lonely" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge and Owen Bolwell, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's second album Between the Days . It was released as the album's first single in Australia in April 1998 and the United States and Japan in August 1998 as a CD single... " |
40 | 25 | 118 1 | Between the Days Between the Days Between the Days is the second album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 5 October 1998 by Gotham Records. Bainbridge co-wrote most of the album with Owen Bolwell, who also produced the album with Siew and Sam Melamed... |
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| "I Got U Babe I Got You Babe "I Got You Babe" is a 1965 #1 single by American pop music duo Sonny & Cher.-Background and composition:Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the lyrics to and composed the music of the song for himself and his then-wife, Cher, late at night in their basement. Session... " (featuring Shaggy Shaggy (musician) Orville Richard Burrell , better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer and rapper. He is perhaps best known for his 1995 single "Boombastic" and 2000 single "It Wasn't Me"... ) |
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| 1999 | "Walk on Fire" | — | — | ||||
| 2003 | "Girl Next Door" | 103 | Single-only | ||||
"—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart.
1 U.S. chart positions outside of the Billboard Hot 100 are according to Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...
chart. The "bubbling under" chart only represents the twenty-five singles below the Hot 100's number 100 position which have not yet appeared on the Hot 100.
Miscellaneous
- "2000 Miles" (1995) — a Christmas song written by Chrissie HyndeChrissie HyndeChristine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde is an US musician best known as the leader of the rock/new wave band the Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history.-Early life and career:Hynde is the daughter of a part-time...
, and recorded for the compilation The Spirit of Christmas 1995The Spirit of Christmas 1995The Spirit of Christmas 1995 is part of the Spirit of Christmas album series. It was released in Australia on November, 1995.-Track listing:#Carol Of The Drum - Christine Anu#God Rest You Merry Gentlemen - Australian Cast and Orchestra of Miss Saigon...
. - "Sydney from a 747" (1999) — a song on the soundtrack of the IMAX movie "Sydney - Story of a City" (1999) and included on "Olympic Record" (2000) the Sydney Olympic games official album.
- "Friends" (2000) — a song from the soundtrack to the Australian animation The Magic PuddingThe Magic PuddingThe Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is an Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantasy, and a classic of Australian children's literature....
.
ARIA Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 ARIA Music Awards of 1995 The Ninth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 20 October 1995 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. There had been a 19-month gap since the previous award ceremony which was moved to be "closer to the business end of the music industry's year"... |
Best Pop Release | "Mouth Mouth (song) "Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on... " |
Nominated |
| Breakthrough Artist - Single | Nominated | ||
| Best New Talent | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Artist | Nominated | ||
| Single of the Year | Nominated | ||
| 1996 | Breakthrough Artist - Album | The Garden The Garden (Merril Bainbridge album) The Garden is the first album by Australian singer Merril Bainbridge, released in Australia on 31 July 1995 by Gotham Records. The album has a main genre of alternative pop songs — some written by Bainbridge herself, Owen Bolwell, Stan Paulzen and Siew... |
Nominated |
| Highest Selling Album | Nominated | ||
| Highest Selling Single | "Under the Water Under the Water "Under the Water" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, Owen Bolwell and Stan Paulzen, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's first album The Garden . It was released as the album's second single in July 1995 in Australia and February 1997 in the United States... " |
Nominated |
APRA Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Song of the Year | "Mouth Mouth (song) "Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden . It was released as the album's first single in the end of November 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on... " |
Nominated |
| 1996 | Most Performed Australian Work | "Under the Water Under the Water "Under the Water" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, Owen Bolwell and Stan Paulzen, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's first album The Garden . It was released as the album's second single in July 1995 in Australia and February 1997 in the United States... " |
Won |
| 1999 | Most Performed Australian Work | "Lonely Lonely (Merril Bainbridge song) "Lonely" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge and Owen Bolwell, produced by Siew for Bainbridge's second album Between the Days . It was released as the album's first single in Australia in April 1998 and the United States and Japan in August 1998 as a CD single... " |
Nominated |