Too Much Monkey Business / Various Too Much Monkey Business / Various LP Vinyl

ALL TRACKS from master tape TRANSFERRED and mastered by Steve McGough at Stebbing Studio. Cover artists are The Breakaways - their version of Ain't Got You comes from their incredibly rare and sonic second album titled "Album Two". Two page insert. Produced for re-issue by John Baker. Limited to 300 copies worldwide. The Nuggets type collection of essential HMV sounds from the 60s. Wellington, the New Zealand windy city and capital was the base for NZ HMV in the sixties and seventies. Their in-house studio was strongly influenced by Abbey Road and manned by some of NZ's most intuitive engineers and producers of the time, not to mention benefitting from a direct supply of EMI recording equipment. While they pumped out pop music for the nation they were no strangers to capturing the wilder side of Wellington rock and roll for single release. Many of these singles now fetch high prices with collectors. Too Much Monkey Business is a collection of the fuzzy pop and garage nuggets that were recorded at HMV in Wellington between 1965 and 1969 with producers Frank Douglas, Peter Dawkins, and Howard Gable. Expect much abuse of fuzz boxes and locally made Jansen amplifiers.

1. Too Much Monkey Business - the Bitter End 1967 2. I'm a Dog - the Librettos 1965 3. Ain't Got You - the Breakaways 1967 4. Lies - the Minors 1966 5. Down in the Mine - Peter Nelson and the Castaways 1965 6. Love's Gonna Live Here - Sounds Unlimited 1967 7. Get the Picture - the Selected Few 1967 8. Love - Mr. Lee Grant 1967 9. My Mama George - the Fourmyula 1968 10. Morning Dew - Retaliation 1968 11. Time Beyond - Top Shelf 1969 12. Water Pipe - the Avengers 1967 13. If I Had the Time - the Fourmyula 1968 14. If I Were a Carpenter - Tom Thumb 1969 15. Grooviest Girl in the World - Simple Image 1969