Monte Video and the Cassettes
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Monte Video and the Cassettes were a New Zealand band that had a hit single "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang".
About the band
[edit]Monte Video and the Cassettes consisted of Murray Grindlay.[1] Murray was an ex-member of 1960s New Zealand band The Underdogs, but is better known today in New Zealand as the writer and voice of many advertising jingles (notably the Crunchie train robbery advertisement, perhaps New Zealand's longest-running[citation needed] television ad).[2]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Monte Vidéo |
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Singles
[edit]| Year | Title | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NZ | AUS [3] | |||
| 1982 | "Shoop Shoop, Diddy Wop, Cumma Cumma, Wang Dang" | 2 | 11 | Monte Vidéo |
| 1983 | "Sheba (Sha Sha She Shoo)" | - | - | |
References
[edit]- ^ Re-Inventing Sheep page on Monte Video and the Cassettes
- ^ Murray Grindlay Profile at Audioculture
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 18. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
External links
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