Monte Video and the Cassettes
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Monte Video and the Cassettes were a New Zealand
band that had a hit single Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
.
The album contains the single Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
. Other songs include "Whos calling?", "All Night Long" and "Sheba (She Sha Shoo)".
It was recorded at Auckland's Mandrill Studios, mixed in Sydney Australia and released by Mushroom Records
and had the previously distributed tracks plus three others, "Hypnosis" and "You Cant Stop Me Now".
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...
band that had a hit single Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang by the New Zealand band Monte Video and the Cassettes was a hit single of 1982 and 1983. The single appeared on the 1983 album Monte Video...
.
About the band
Monte Video and the Cassettes consisted of Murray Grindlay. Murray was an ex member of another New Zealand Band, The Underdogs , but is better known today in New Zealand as the writer and voice of many advertising jingles (notably the Crunchie train robbery advertisement, perhaps New Zealand's longest-running and best loved television ad).Discography
- Monte Video, 1983 (Mushroom RecordsMushroom RecordsMushroom 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...
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The album contains the single Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang by the New Zealand band Monte Video and the Cassettes was a hit single of 1982 and 1983. The single appeared on the 1983 album Monte Video...
. Other songs include "Whos calling?", "All Night Long" and "Sheba (She Sha Shoo)".
It was recorded at Auckland's Mandrill Studios, mixed in Sydney Australia and released by 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...
and had the previously distributed tracks plus three others, "Hypnosis" and "You Cant Stop Me Now".