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Just for the records, “Think About Me / Mona Lisa” – Adelaide Charts: Entry date 13 Nov 1965, Peak 1, Weeks 19. However, it didn’t chart elsewhere in Australia. This was due to Ernie Sigley’s tenure on the Adelaide Tonight top-rating show in the 1960s and 1970s, which was a catalyst for his later national television career
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I’ve shared a video cover of Malvina Reynolds’ “What Have They Done To The Rain” and we’ve since had requests for CCR’s “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” and “Who’ll Stop The Rain”. Well, I don’t think we can count on the MLT to stop the rain if this video is anything to go by!!
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What we really need is more covers of MonaLisa Twins’ originals, like this beautiful cover of “Still A Friend Of Mine”, from “Flavio’.
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Ironically, Ernie’s “Think About Me” recording is backed by the song “Mona Lisa”. I have lifted the following synopsis from the web.
“Ernest William Sigley (born 2 September 1938) s a Gold Logie winning Australian host, radio presenter and singer. Known as a pioneer of Australian television, Sigley is often styled as a “little Aussie battler” with a larrikin sense of humour.
Sigley is remembered for his 1964 association with the Adelaide leg of The Beatles tour of Australia. In one press conference, Sigley’s questioning of The Beatles brought about an enthusiastic response from John Lennon, which led to one of the best interviews of the tour.
In 1974, Sigley, with Denise Drysdale, recorded the popular duet, “Hey Paula”, released by Festival Records, Australia and produced at Armstrong Studios, Melbourne. This song went on to be a No. 1 best-selling hit for them in Australia. In the original version from 1963, Songwriter, Ray Hildebrand was Paul. “Paula” was Jill Jackson, the niece of the owner of the boarding house where Ray lived at the time.”
Ernie Sigley & Denise Drysdale (affectionately known as ‘Ding Dong’) – Hey Paula (1974).
His family announced in October 2016 that he has Alzheimer’s Disease. Not a bad career for someone born in Footscray, Melbourne, one of seven children of a boilermaker!
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Hi David. For me at least it seems random and sometimes the link won’t even transfer to the post and I have to invent ways of getting around it. I seem to remember a very early post where the MLT Team advised that the site had the capacity to share videos, but not more than one per post. I’m sure Rudolf will let us know if we are adversely taxing the system.
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Yes, Skip. Almost as cute as the MonaLisa Twins!
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I have to include Dylan’s own version as I think it is the definitive one. Such a superb lyricist. So many metaphors.
“She’s got everything she needs, she’s an artist, She don’t look back”
“She can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint the daytime black”
“She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall”. -
The Masterminds – She Belongs To Me – 1965 45rpm, one-off single by Liverpool’s Masterminds, features Jimmy Page and Badfinger’s Joey Molland on guitars. I’ve included this cover because of Mona’s and Lisa’s 8 Sep 2019 request “To add to yesterday’s Tweet about somewhat forgotten 60’s songs out of Liverpool.”
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Well Jung, definitely a date to put in the calendar and enjoy listening to original MLT music. Hopefully, soon we’ll have another album to get excited about!
Yes, the Club certainly has grown and prospered. We are fortunate that there are so many new members, joining in the conservation and contributing to the Forum. I had only discovered the MLT about three months before the Club commenced (they had just turned 24), so I was really keen to join and support their magical mystery musical adventure as much as possible!
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Getting back to The MLT, Dylan and Papa Rudi, this would have to be the greatest cover of Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”. From that great sixties Irish band ‘Them’, featuring Van ‘the man’ Morrison.
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On the subject of folk music, Joan Baez, The Searchers, and The Seekers had hits in the sixties with Malvina Reynolds’ “What Have They Done To The Rain”. I have chosen Marianne Faithfull’s cover here. So young and beautiful in 1965. What has Mick done to Marianne? I don’t know about you but I can definitely visualise The MLT producing a video of Mona and Lisa singing this number. If you watch to the end, you’ll even see Papa Rudi in disguise at the top of a step ladder, holding a watering can!
Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978) was an influential figure in the movement, and her composition – originally called “Rain Song”, was written in 1962 as part of the anti-nuclear campaign.
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Good call Jung! And what a great song from the Twins. I’ll never forget Lisa’s relating how she started writing this song during a blackout, by candlelight. Later when she was stuck, Papa Rudi helped out with the chorus, which also gave the song a title. Just a few short lines but they said so much about a father’s love for his daughter. It has always been one of my favourites from Orange, which is chock full of favourites!
I never thought I’d find anyone who could do Joan Baez successfully, but in the Twins, we have double the power! Baez has an album of Dylan covers -“Baez Sings Dylan”. The Twins play some Dylan in their “MonaLisa & Band Live in Concert (2007)” – ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ (Byrds version) and ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’, featuring an awesome Papa Rudi on lead vocals and smooth operator, Michaela’s sexy saxophone highlighted! I think they get the loudest cheer for this number.
I hope you enjoy the following video as much as I do.
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Hi John. The sixties and seventies were my era music-wise, so it wasn’t February 3, 1959, that the music died for me! As for “You Were on My Mind”, I have both ‘We Five’ and ‘Crispian’s’ versions on my Spotify playlists and I still have my copy of Crispian’s “The Pied Piper” on vinyl 45, purchased in the sixties.
As for Sonny and Cher, you may be thinking of their “But You’re Mine”.
‘You Were on My Mind’ is a nice song, but probably better is “The Last Thing on My Mind”, written by the great Tom Paxton. There have been literally dozens of covers of this song, including from Judy Collins, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Neil Diamond, Joan Baez, Marianne Faithful, The Dubliners, Nana Mouskouri, Hank Snow, Charlie Pride, Gram Parsons, and the Seekers. The MLT would make a lovely acoustic trio with Papa Rudi joining in, with a version like Cry, Cry, Cry’s:
While we’re with the country theme, don’t get me started on Johnny Cash’s “Cry, Cry, Cry”!
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I’d love to hear a Bob Dylan cover from the MLT. How about this beauty recorded by the awesome Joan Baez. Only Mona and Lisa could do justice to this version.
Lisa would have to catch up with her ‘George Harrison’ sitar skills, however. I know you can do it, Lisa, now if only there were eight days a week perhaps!
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My MLT cover requests are endless. For some reason I don’t think Mona has been keeping up her flute practice, so here’s a challenge for her:
