Short Note
| Short Note | ||||
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| Released | February 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1980 at Paradise Studios, Sydney, Australia | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 38:20 | |||
| Label | Giant Recording Company, CBS | |||
| Producer | Peter Dawkins | |||
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Short Note is the debut album and title track by Australian band Matt Finish, released in January 1981.
The album Short Note peaked at #14 in the Australian albums charts.[1] The title song peaked at #18. It was recorded by Wendy Matthews and appeared on her 2004 album Café Naturale, featured in Triple M Network’s Best Songs of the Eighties poll in 2005, in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter, and on numerous compilation albums including Rajon Music Group's Australian Made Volume 2 (2001),[2] ScreenSound's Running In The Shadows (2004)[3] and Sony BMG's The Essential Australian series (2008).
A new version of Short Note appears on Matt Finish's 2008 anthology album 1978-2008.
The cover was designed by Eric Gradman.
Track listing
(All songs by Matt Moffitt except where noted)
- "Look At Me" (Matt Moffitt, Rick Grossman)
- "Hanging On"
- "Short Note"
- "Layman's Day"
- "Forecast"
- "Hot Cover" (Moffitt, R. Grossman, J. Clayton, J. Prior)
- "Mancini Shuffle"
- "Younger Days"
- "Respectable"
- "You Get So"
Personnel
- Matt Moffitt – lead vocals, lead guitar
- Jeff Clayton – guitar, backup vocals
- Rick Grossman – bass guitar
- John Prior – drums
- Don Walker – piano ("Younger Days")
References
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
- ^ Australian music in Trove - Trove
- ^ http://www2b.abc.net.au/guestbookcentral/addcomment.asp?GuestbookID=157&EntryID=210231&view=&numtoview=&start=&sort=&filter1=&filter1val=&filter2=&filter2val=&filter3=&filter3val=&advanced=&pagestart=112
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