BILLY THORPE 1964 SINGLE on LINDA LEE LABEL /ORIGINAL SLEEVE

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BILLY THORPE & THE AZTECS 1964 Single with Original Linda Lee Sleeve ............................................. Poison Ivy (Poison Ivy (Leiber Stoller) - f/s -  Broken Things (Tony Barber) Linda Lee Label LL-007 A Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were an Australia pop and rock group dating from the mid-1960s. The group enjoyed huge success in the mid-1960s, but split in 1967. They re-emerged in the early 1970s to become one of the most popular Australian hard-rock bands of the period. Thorpe died from a heart attack in Sydney on 28 February 2007. The group broke through in mid-1964 with a massive nationwide hit, their cover of the Leiber and Stoller classic "Poison Ivy", which famously kept The Beatles from the #1 spot on the Sydney charts at the very moment that the group was making its first and only tour of Australia—a feat which resulted in Thorpe being invited to meet the Fab Four at their hotel. Over the next twelve months the band reigned supreme as the most popular 'beat' group in Australia, scoring further hits with the songs "Mashed Potato", "Sick And Tired" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", until they were eclipsed by the emergence of The Easybeats in 1965. ....................................................................................................... Guitarist, singer, songwriter and author Tony Barber   Composer of Broken Things

• is one of the unsing heroes of the Beat Boom in Australia. Rock historian Dean Mittelhauser considered him "one of
•  our most underrated performers from the Sixties" and felt that Tony had "played a bigger part in the success of
•  Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs that has been generally credited". 

......................................................... The Linda Lee Collectable Label Linda Lee was a short lived, small independent label distributed by Australia's largest independent, Festival Records. Their roster  included Aztecs who after enjoying a minor hit with their 2nd release (and first with Billy out front), enjoyed a huge National No. 1 hit with Poison Ivy, their 3rd single. The band were quickly snapped up by the newly formed and bigger Parlophone/Albert Productions label which left the smaller label without their flagship act and none of their other acts bar Johnny Noble enjoyed commercial success from their lone single releases. ............................................................................................................................         * The Condition of the record  is Very Good Plus  (VG+ ) with minor markings Original Sleeve Grading based on- Record collectors rating definition ......................................................................................................................

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