Top notch 53 track double cd with extensive liner notes !

Another superb release from Frenzy (2023). 53 tracks over 2 cds plus detailed 16 page booklet.

TThe seventh volume in Frenzy's ongoing series of year by year compilations of New Zealand music: 53 tracks and a thousand stories, representing 65% of all local 45rpm releases.

The industry was changing fast with hair getting longer, music getting louder and albums now out selling 45s.

It was a year when many of the top local groups from the previous years split-up as the winds of change enveloped the music scene, including The Chicks, The Dedikation, The Challenge, The Revival, Tom Thumb and The Rebels, while a new crop of Rock groups rose from the ashes including Farmyard, Highway, & Rebirth. After several years of being Wellington's best kept secret, Quincy Conserve finally stepped out from the shadows on the back of one of the best local singles of the year 'Ride The Rain' a song written by Bruno Lawrence. Bruno is inextricably linked to the group but he only joined in April and was gone by Christmas.

Kiwis embraced the overseas revival of fifties Rock n Roll culminating in our very own 'King Of Rock & Roll", Johnny Devlin re recording his 1958 smash 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' (inc) while The Dizzy Limit recorded a pulsating version of Little Richards 'Good Golly Miss Molly' and the Big-O kept the music alive with 'Hot Rod' (inc)...