1. Allison
2. Don’t Worry About It
3. Just Like We Wanted
4. Fall With Me
5. Simply Complicated
6. Don’t Let Me Move On
7. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

Produced by Beeb Birtles and Bill Cuomo
Recorded and mixed by Bill Cuomo
Mastered by Brian Foraker at Autumnwood Mastering
Photography by Donna Edmondson
Art Direction and Design by Pearl Laravea for Pearlgraphix

1. Good Luck
2. You Make Me Look Good
3. Take Me, I’m Yours
4. The One She Is To Me
5. Mexico Moon
6. Back And Forth To Ft. Worth
7. ‘Til She’s Done Hurting Me
8. Saving Myself
9. Hold Your Horse
10. Usually
11. I Don’t Wanna Dance This Song Again
12. Don’t even Think About It
13. You’re Right, I Left
14. Fuel To The Fire
15. Halfway There
16. You’re Losin’ Me
17. Miracle
18. Down Near Mexico
19. I See What You’re Saying
20. Too Bad I Haven’t Met You Yet
21. Hang On Cowboy
22. Surprise

Produced by Beeb Birtles and Bill Cuomo for Sonic Sorbet Productions
Recorded and mixed by Bill Cuomo at Manzanita Recording
Mastered by Brian Foraker
Production coordination by Beeb Birtles
Photos by Karen Will Rogers
Art direction and cover design by Pearl Laravea for Pearlgraphix

1. Too Bad I Haven’t Met You Yet
2. I’m No Match For That Flame
3. You’re Right, I Left
4. Good Luck
5. Usually
6. Hold Your Horses
7. I Made A Deal With Her Memory
8. The One She Is To Me
9. Back And Forth To Ft. Worth
10. Surprise

Produced by Bill Cuomo and Beeb Birtles
Mixed by Bill Cuomo
Mastered by Brian Foraker at Autumnwood Mastering
Art direction and design by Ben Olson
Photography by Karen Will Rogers

1. Bone Of Contention
2. The Tender Things
3. Bonafide
4. Hayley
5. Boomerang
6. Things, Things, Things
7. Jesus’ Shoes
8. Annapurna Treacher
9. The Dreamsicle Bar
10. One True Love

Produced by Beeb Birtles and Bill Cuomo
Recorded and mixed by Bill Cuomo assisted by Kelly Schoenfeld
Mastered by Brian Foraker at Autumnwood Mastering
Art direction and design by Cindy Dannat
Photography by Jim Herrington

Zoot, the Australian rock band from the 60s featuring Rick Springfield, Beeb Birtles, Daryl Cotton and Rick Brewer, are reforming for a cruise show.

All members of Zoot went on to other things after the band broke up. Rick became the solo star with hits like ‘Jessie’s Girl’ and ‘Speak To The Sky’, Darryl went solo and had a Top 10 hit with ‘Same Old Girl’, Rick formed The Ferrets and had a number one song with ‘Don’t Fall In Love’ and Beeb formed Mississippi then Little River Band and had global success.

The original band will perform for the Rick Springfield and Friends cruise leaving Miami in November.

Zoot’s biggest hit was their acid rock cover of The Beatles ‘Eleanor Rigby’. It reached no. 3 on the Australian charts in 1971. Soon after, the band broke up.

Itinerary for the cruise:

Saturday Nov 5, 2011 Miami, Florida
Sunday Nov 6, 2011 Day at Sea
Monday Nov 7, 2011 Ocho Rios
Tuesday Nov 8, 2011 Grand Cayman
Wednesday Nov 9, 2011 Day at Sea
Thursday Nov 10, 2011 Return to Miami

Find out more at http://www.rickspringfieldcruise.com/

1. It’s A Long Way There
2. Man On Your Mind
3. Mistress Of Mine
4. Happy Anniversary
5. Don’t Let The Needle Win
6. Reminiscing
7. Ballerina
8. Cool Change
9. The Night Owls
10. Help Is On Its Way
11. Lonesome Loser
12. It’s Not A Wonder
13. Lady
14. Just Say That You Love Me

Any Little River Band concert is a major musical event, but the concert that took place in the Summit in Houston, Texas on October 7, 1981 was especially magical – even by Little River Band standards – as this superb film illustrates. The indelible melodies and soaring harmonies which highlighted this 75-minute concert are typical of a group whose approach to hit songwriting and performing have earned them a solid worldwide following.

Selections from most of the Little River Band’s six albums, including their newest, Time Exposure, are featured. Each spotlights the polished vocals and dazzling musicianship which are the ultimate heart behind their best-loved material. Little River Band challenges and uplifts with this brilliantly filmed celebration of great music.

1. It’s A Long Way There
2. Kings Of The World
3. Sweet Old Fashioned Man
4. Days On The Road
5. Ramblin’ Man
6. My Lady And Me
7. Fall From Paradise
8. Take Me Home
9. Another Runway
10. It’s A Long Way There
11. Hard Life (Prelude)
12. Hard Life
13. Statue Of Liberty
14. Reminiscing
15. Reminiscing
16. Man On Your Mind
17. Happy Anniversary
18. Help Is On Its Way
19. Home On Monday
20. Lady
21. Lady
22. Lonesome Loser
23. Cool Change
24. The Night Owls
25. Take It Easy On Me
26. Man On Your Mind
27. The Other Guy
28. Soul Searching
29. Curiosity Killed The Cat
30. When Will I Be Loved?

In this all new documentary, the story of Little River Band is told from the early days in Adelaide and London, through to their stunning international success. Featuring brand new interview footage with key founding members Beeb Birtles, Glenn Shorrock and Graeham Goble, along with famed bass player George McArdle, manager Glenn Wheatley and long time engineer Ern Rose. It includes never before seen footage from Glenn Shorrock’s personal 8mm home movie collection of LRB’s first US tour.

Also included is a full concert, filmed in 1978 on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House, capturing the band at the height of their powers, performing to over 100,000 people.

In 2005, the DVD “It’s A Long Way There” was pressed and scheduled for release by EMI/Capitol, but threatened legal action by Stephen Housden, prevented its release. Housden (who claims ownership of the LRB trademark) warned EMI/Capitol, that they could not use the LRB trademark to promote this documentary.

1. Full Circle
2. It’s A Long Way There
3. Man On Your Mind
4. Curiosity Killed The Cat
5. Days On The Road
6. Everyday Of My Life
7. Face In The Crowd
8. Photogenic
9. Happy Anniversary
10. Take It Easy On Me
11. Soul Searching
12. Prelude in A Minor
13. Mistress Of Mine
14. Lady
15. Heart & Soul
16. The Night Owls
17. The Other Guy
18. Seine City
19. I’ll Always Call Your Name
20. Home On Monday
21. Deep Water
22. The Engine Room
23. In The City
24. Reminiscing
25. Parallel Lines
26. It’s Cold Out Tonight
27. Help Is On Its Way
28. Cool Change
29. Lonesome Loser
30. Just Say That You Love Me

From the very beginning of the extraordinary musical unit known as Little River Band, there was a fascinating face presented to the world – an image that was not an image. Whatever the line-up of the time and no matter how dizzying the success, a seasoned, intelligent core of consummate musicians and singers went about their craft with an attitude of unstinting determination and professionalism, and without pretension or hyperbole.

The focus was only ever upon what it should have been upon – deftly constructed songs, rich in emotion and enduring in appeal. By remaining aloof from extreme images and trends, LRB survived as a respected and constantly demanded outfit, selling more than 25 million records and racking up more than a few achievements of note.

Behind those disc achievements was a solid commitment to their audience, one that took them out on the American and international concert trail at least twice a year during the late 70s and early 80s. Polished, full-blooded, sincere performances from Seattle to Stuttgart to Sydney generated an enormously loyal following which enabled the band to play before large and enthusiastic audiences outside of Australia soon after formation. The respect they won for their tireless professionalism would play a key role in their sustained American popularity. Their shows were a spirited musical celebration, with a buoyant attitude.

The startling realisation for concert audiences, was that the layered, perfectly pitched vocal patterns they heard on the records were also on offer in concert halls. They luxuriated in the waves of harmonic sound sweeping out from the stage.

The band’s vocal strength was matched by a great songwriting depth, with at least four significant song sources within the band at any one time. The main writers – Graeham Goble, Glenn Shorrock and Beeb Birtles – were masters of song craft. Glenn’s works, such as Home On Monday (the perfect lonely road saga), Help Is On Its Way, Man On Your Mind and Cool Change were intimate and personal, while Graeham mastered an almost traditional twentieth century professional writing approach in classics such as Reminiscing (the most globally broadcasted Australian song ever), Lady, It’s A Long Way There, The Night Owls and Take It Easy On Me. Beeb ranged across quite diverse terrain, and was responsible for a number of timeless songs which commanded attention – Curiosity Killed The Cat, Every Day Of My Life, Happy Anniversary, Witchery and Light Of Day among them.

Each had learned this trade well, coming up through the demanding environment of the Australian pop scene of the 60s and early 70s. Glenn in The Twilights, Axiom and (in England) Esperanto, Beeb in The Zoot, Frieze and Mississippi, and Graeham in Allison Gros and Mississippi. In those pioneering outfits they soon came to know that songs and their delivery were paramount.

And although they didn’t deliver them up to the world just then, they prepared them for the assault and accomplishments to come.

The three left Little River Band at different points in its evolution, and Glenn even came back for a time. As they moved on they continued to create music of consequence and added it to their individual repertoires. Then, into a new century, they returned to each other’s company and pooled their holdings. Initially tentative, it proved to be a gestalt as natural as it was overpowering. Collectively, as a body of work in Australian music, it is peerless.

As this sumptuous performance, captured at Melbourne’s Forum in July 2003 in a six-camera shoot, shows us, there was old ground and new ground for all. Glenn had never sung on the Farnham-era hit The Other Guy but is integral to its new acoustic rendering. Beeb was gone a year later and did not play on the originals of Face In The Crowd and Soul Searching (from No Reins and Monsoon). These nights, indeed all their new collaborative nights, were voyages of discovery for both singers and audience.

The Time Exposure song Full Circle, which sets us soaring right from the start with a cappella purity, underlines just where the musical journey of Birtles Shorrock Goble has taken these musical wayfarers. This is the essence of a lifetime of making music – of three lifetimes of making music. It is the old, it is the new, it is the moments in between.

At the risk of labouring a point, let me say again that before and beyond anything else it was the songs – it will always be the songs. They have stood the test of time. They have become a part of people’s lives. I suspect that, if you are reading this, they have become part of yours.

GLENN A. BAKER
August 2003

1. Full Circle
2. It’s A Long Way There
3. Man On Your Mind
4. Curiosity Killed The Cat
5. Everyday Of My Life
6. Happy Anniversary
7. Prelude In A Minor
8. Mistress Of Mine
9. Lady
10. Take It Easy On Me
11. The Night Owls
12. The Other Guy
13. Seine City
14. Home On Monday
15. Reminiscing
16. Help Is On Its Way
17. Cool Change
18. Lonesome Loser

1. It’s A Long Way There
2. Curiosity Killed The Cat
3. Emma
4. Everyday Of My Life
5. Help Is On Its Way
6. Home On Monday
7. Happy Anniversary
8. Shut Down Turn Off
9. Reminiscing
10. Lady
11. Lonesome Loser
12. Cool Change
13. The Night Owls
14. Take It Easy On Me
15. Man On Your Mind
16. We Two
17. Down On The Border
18. The Other Guy
19. Playing To Win