It's March, 1964 and the pop group "The Charades" are in the studios of Sydney radio station 2UW preparing to cut a disk - literally!
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Bottom row: Paul Baker (18 years old), Murray Chenery, Trevor Miller |
There is no room for mistakes here! They will record direct to an acetate master disk. There can be no overdubs - everything including the vocals must be done in one go. Recording will be done in mono using a single microphone suspended from the ceiling on a pole. The musicians must acoustically balance their sound levels around the microphone.
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The engineer for this recording session is David Mackay, who will later go on to become a famous producer in England. They are recording their single "The Big Dipper".
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The Charades are the first Australian band to tour overseas. In June 1965, they tour Japan, Okanama and Thailand. In Okanama, they do four shows a day - 7:00pm, 10:00pm, 1:00am plus a breakfast show at 7:00am! In Tokyo, from Mondays to Thursdays they do three shows per night at 7:00pm, 11:00pm and 1:00am. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays they tour American bases doing two shows per night.
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