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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

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

The album contains the single "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang". Other songs include "Who's calling?," "All Night Long" and "Sheba (She Sha Shoo)."

It was recorded at Auckland's Mandrill Studios, mixed in Sydney Australia and released by Mushroom Records and had the previously distributed tracks plus three others, "Hypnosis" and "You Can't Stop Me Now."

References

  1. ^ Re-Inventing Sheep page on Monte Video and the Cassettes
  2. ^ Murray Grindlay Profile at Audioculture

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