[ Frenzy / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 24 May 2024
'LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN...UNDER' Vol 2 is another celebration of Kiwi artists performing the songs of The Beatles. Contrasting interpretations run rampant on this exciting 25 track collection which features many of our top artists from the last 60 years either playing note for note renditions of Beatle songs or completely dismantling the songs before re-assembling them in their own style. Eddie Rayner fires up the proceedings, as leader of 'The Eddie Rayner Project' and his band 'The Conrays'.
Eliza Keil punches her way through a brass driven version of 'Got To Get You Into My Life'. If funk is your 'thang' then that department is handled by Golden Harvest with their 1976 version of 'Come Together'. 'Matthew Bannister' aka 'One Man Bannister' contributes his version of 'I'm Only Sleeping' from his acclaimed 'Rubber Solo' album. One of the more interesting tracks is 'The Harbour Lites' UK recorded version of 'Run For Your Life' which features future Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore with whizz kid producer/ engineer Mark Wirtz (of Teenage Opera fame). Many stalwarts of the local music industry appear on this collection including Colin MacRae, Peter Kearns, Ray Woolf, Brendan Dugan, Peter Posa and Dinah Lee among others. This collection comes with a 16 page foldout chronological booklet of their eight days in New Zealand.
01 THE WONDERFUL EDDIE RAYNER PROJECT While My Guitar Gently Weeps
02 ELIZA KEIL Got To Get You Into My Life
03 GOLDEN HARVEST Come Together
04 THE REBELS Ticket To Ride Part 2
05 ROGER SKINNER & THE MOTIVATION Sour Milk Sea
06 ONE MAN BANNISTER I'm Only Sleeping
07 PETER KEARNS Across The Universe
08 RAGE Dr Robert
09 CRAIG SCOTT & QUINCY CONSERVE Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out
10 WAYNE ROLAND BROWN Eleanor Rigby
11 JOHN McRAE I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
12 THE CONRAYS' Don't Let Me Down
13 THE HARBOUR LITES Run For Your Life
14 DINAH LEE It's For You
15 PETER POSA Eight Days A Week
16 RAY COLUMBUS & THE INVADERS I Wanna Be Your Man (live)
17 MAX MERRITT & THE METEORS I Want To Hold Your Hand
18 THE MERSEYMEN I'll Get You
19 THE VIGILANTES And I Love Her
20 RAY WOOLF & THE AVENGERS I'll Follow The Sun
21 BOBBY DAVIS When I'm 64
22 STEVE ALLEN My Sweet Lord
23 BRENDAN DUGAN I've Just Seen A Face
24 THE NEW ZEALAND TRADING COMPANY Hey Jude