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Bonnie’s Laurie Allen Tribute
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For 18 months Laurie
would pack up his cheese sandwiches and coke and catch a bus and tram or
sometimes a train and head off to Waza’s Balwyn
North studio, a nice little home based recording studio where he would join
Warren Keats, Bernie O’Brien, Oliver the dog and Man the cat, they would band
together in an effort to record their own individual cd’s
, a team effort to record the best cd’s they
possibly could. Laurie didn’t quite make it to see the finished product. When Laurie passed away LBW the band became LBW Productions and
they were in damage control, those cd’s
were going to be finish. Now it was only Warren and Bernie to put the
finishing touches to the almost finished cd’s, they
worked hard to finish what they had originally set out to do and they did it
but now it was the finance to get the cd’s out that
was the worry and that was when Aunty Renee stepped in with a plan to get
Laurie’s last works released …for Laurie.
( cd
order & song download available from www.warrenkeats.com
)
Tracks
Include · 1 Truckers Lullaby Allen ATA/Festival · 2 Honky Tonk
Women & Neon Lights Allen ATA/Festival · 3 Where Are You Gene? Allen ATA/Festival· 4 Rockabilly
Beatin Boogie Band Gary Young
& LaurieAllen Control· 5 Danielle Allen ATA/Festival· 6 Dance
Hall Ladies Allen ATA/Festival· 7 Sweet Dreams & Memories Allen ATA/Festival· 8 Bun Wagon Allen ATA/Festival· 9 Had To Leave Her Allen ATA/Festival· 10 Polly Allen ATA/Festiva· 11 So Long Ago Allen ATA/Festival· 12 Down South In New Orleans Bobby Charles
Control · 13 I Walk The Line Cash Control · 14 Maybe Baby Holly Control· 15 Guitar Band Allen ATA/Festival· 16 The Fer’ Buck’N’Me Polka Allen ATA/Festival· 17 All
Night Long (The LBW Theme) Allen Keats Control All Compositions Copyrights Observed Do you remember the “Carol County
Accident”? I guess it was the first country hit to imprint itself on my mind
way back in 1969 when I was just getting into country music at 2TM Cranbourne Hillbilly radio show on Sunday
mornings working with legends like the Hawking Brothers, Dusty Rankin, Pete
and Mike Hayes and a host of others.
No wonder that after the Bobby and Laurie era finished in the early
70’s, Laurie was able to carve himself a career as a solo recording artist, a
top songwriter and a session musician touring with local and overseas stars.
He produced great records for other artists too. In fact he spent a lifetime
not only creating great music himself but helping others, including many of Yet it is as a person and a friend he’ll be
remembered. Speak to anyone who knew him and they’ll talk about a man they
admired and loved, unflappable and full of happiness. Like all great artists
he was bursting with enthusiasm for what he did and he knew it backwards.
It was a terrible shock to hear that Laurie was gone. He had been an
integral part of the scene for so long.
This album is a marvellous, energy filled, joyful, country tribute to
a man who obviously loved every moment of his jam packed, musical existence. Laurie. as we
listen to this terrific album(hopefully not your last release) with so many
of your great old songs, we salute you and your remarkable talents for music
and friendships. A real “motivating man” to the end. Max Ellis
2002.. (Max’s tribute liner for Laurie on “One last
Round”) ( Thank you to Max Ellis for
allowing me to include this liner on
my page
and nice words of encouragement… thank you )
( cd order & song download available from www.warrenkeats.com
Tracks Include · 1 Hello & Welcome Keats Fable· 2 Just The Way Keats Control· 3 The Minute
You Said Goodbye Keats Control· 4 A
Lot Of Stories To Tell Keats Control· 5 Hitch Hiker Miller Control· 6 Rollin Home Allen ATA Music· 7 Road Train Keats Control· 8 Swaggin’
(Featuring Les Keats) Allen ATA Music· 9 Loving You Keats Control· 10 A Good Nights Rain Keats Control· 11 Out On The Road Keats Control· 12 Long Ago & Far Away Keats Fable Music· 13 40 Feet
Of Steel Keats Control· 14 The Eyes Of Love J. Clement & M. Addington Control· 15 Roll On Train Keats Control All Original Compositions Copyright Wasteland Musical Services Except
Tracks 1 & 12 Copyright Fable Music Tracks
6 & 8 Copyright ATA/Festival Music The story of the
Jack & Laurie’s song “Swaggin”. Jack Allen in his younger days before Laurie was even
thought of swagged his way around Australia and as Aunty Renee said worked
his way around for pennies, he wrote of his experiences in the way of poems,
Laurie showed me the little red book that had obviously been well read with
its yellowing pages packed with poems written in pencil, Jack wrote about the
Australian bush, the friends he met along the way and his many adventures,
that book was a treasure to Laurie. Laurie picked up on a couple of the poems
one being the one that was to become “Swaggin”. Laurie put the music to it and Lionel Rose
recorded it for one of his albums, Warren Keats had heard Lionel’s version of
this song and liked it so much while working with Laurie in 2002 he asked if
he himself could record that song for his own cd
but use his own dad Les Keats ( Les Keats a pioneer
of country music here in Melbourne, a member of the original Trail Blazers)
to do the narration. Laurie agreed, Waza brought
his dad into the studio and “Swaggin” was reborn,
Laurie was extremely happy with Waza’s version of
the song. This song in it self is a great tribute not only to an Australian
lifestyle of the one time swaggie but to three Aussie icons no longer with
us, Jack passed away in 1996 at the young age of 100, Laurie passed away just
after this song was recorded by Waza in 2002 then a
couple of months later Les Keats also passed away. “Swaggin” number 8 track
on Warren Keats’s cd “Hello & Welcome” is one
of the songs that has been picked up by some music presenters here in
Australia and in New Zealand as a great Aussie song with an Aussie story that
is so true, one of these music presenters Graeme Godkin
from Yarra Valley FM contacted me recently urging me to get the story of this
song out there to try and get more airplay because he like quite a few others
who have heard this song feel this song is a true reflection of the
Australian Swaggie and needs to be heard.
( cd order & song download available from www.warrenkeats.com Tracks Include · 1 Born For The Nightlife O'Brien Control· 2 A Beer At Sue’s Cafe O'Brien Control· 3 Good & Gettin’
Better O'Brien Control· 4
Annie Johnstone O'Brien Control· 5 Me & The Dog O'Brien Control· 6 Back Street Boogie O'Brien Control· 7 Grandma’s Biscuits O'Brien
Control· 8 Walk On By Van Dyke Control· 9 Nightrider O'Brien Control· 10 Guitar Boogie · 11 Easy
Street O'Brien Control· 12
Andrea O'Brien Control· 13
Am I The One O'Brien Control· 14
The Night & The Lady O'Brien Control· 15 The Fields Of Athenry (Features Guest Vocal By Warren Keats) P St John/Trad Control All Selections Copyright Control ( cd order & song download available
from www.warrenkeats.com A Tribute To The Pioneers Of Rock & Roll From L.B.W.
studios Tracks Include 1.Rockabilly Beatin Boogie Band.2.The Endless Sleep.3.Hats
Off To Larry.4. ( cd order & song download available from www.warrenkeats.com
The Compilation Release Of A Wide Range Of Material From The
Three L.B.W. Solo Albums With Some Unreleased Tracks From Warren Keats Tracks include. 1 Motivatin’ Day 2
The Night & The Lady 3 Long Ago & Far Away 4 Had To Leave Her.
5 Me & The Dog
6 Am I The One (Vocal By Warren Keats )
7 The Fer’ Buck’N’Me Polka 8 Swaggin’
9 All Night Long ( LBW Theme)
10 Annie Johnstone
11 A Cowboys Tears
12 Born For The Nightlife 13 Dancehall Ladies. Other CD’s available from Wasteland Music Services
Nite Trane with Laurie Allen, Peter Hayes, Bernie O’Brien and
Harold Frith. recorded in
2001. tracks include 1.Rockabilly Beatin Boogie Band 2.Closing Of The Door 3.Born For The Nightlife 4.Jackson’s Track 5.Pain Of Love 6.Nite Trane 7.The Nite & The Lady
8.Everything To Me 9.Wild 12.Spirit Of True Rock ‘N’ Roll. The Last cd recorded by Bobby &
Laurie in 1997 Track include. 1 Perfect Lover.2 .Been Through It Before.3.Hey There.4.Tomorrow(Maybe Never) 5.Turning Point 6. Fields Of Athenry 7.Here I go Again 8.Hotter Out There 9.I Want To Be Free 10.Geraldine’s Thinking Of Galway 11. Distant Drums 12.Keep A’Knockin.
August
Mood Ian Castles Tracks Include: The First Time, Roomful Of Roses,Truckers Lullaby, These Hands,If
Tomorrow Never Comes, Jezebel, There’s An Old Man In Our Town,Eighteen
Yellow Roses, Closing Of The Door, Your Cheatin’
Heart, What Colour
Is The Wind, Burden Of Freedom, In The Misty Moonlight, Amazing Grace.
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