Channel 9 ‘New Faces’ Discoveries – FBAB – 5311
Fable
Track Listing
Little Green Apples
It Wasn’t Enough
Mary And Me
I Am What I Am
Goodbye Forever
Bird On The Wire
Pretend
Misery Farm
Wishbone
Delta Dawn
Melbourne Blue, Melbourne Green
Sorrow Is My Name
You Are The Reason
Song For Jenny
Party Line
A New Love Day
There’s A Goldmine In The Sky
Lorena
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
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Enjoy. 11 April 2016
Pop Goes The Navy – NA483 *
Royal Australian Navy Band
K-tel
Track Listing
Liberty Bell (Monty Python Theme) – 2:25
Struttin’ With Maria – 1:39
The Night Chicago Died – 2:11
My Way – 2:48
Proud Mary – 1:26
Up, Up And Away – 1:48
I Don’t Know How To Love Him – 1:52
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree – 1:48
Elanor Rigby – 1:33
Midnight In Moscow – 1:47
Desafinado – 2:16
Billy Don’t Be A Hero – 3:23
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown – 1:40
Everything Is Beautiful – 2:32
Eye Level – 2:12
Theme From “Shaft” – 2:01
Hey Jude – 2:52
A Swingin’ Safari – 1:58
Rocky Mountain High – 1:56
Bridge Over Troubled Water – 1:30
Theme And Rock Out – 3:09
Windy – 1:47
Spanish Flea – 1:50
Sweet Caroline – 2:52
K-tel
This record has something of a strange background. It was originally recorded at Armstrong Audio/Video Studios in Melbourne by Roger Savage from Fable and released under FBAB-5315. Recording is dated 1975. It was then licensed by K-tel and reissued with a slightly modified cover less than 12 months later.
Although there were many compilations before, K-tel – initially trading as Majestic in Australia – began the trend to heavy marketing of compilations and samplers in the late 1960s…
From the Beginning – FBAB-5327
Fable
Track Listing
Pushbike Song – MIXTURES
Old Man Emu – JOHN WILLIAMSON
Highway 31 – JOHNNY CHESTER
Union Silver – BILL & BOYD
Butterfly – MATT FLINDERS
Through The Eyes Of Love – BOBBY & LAURIE
Everybody’s Reaching Out For Someone – LIV MAESSEN
Let Go – BRIAN CADD
Catfish John – HAWKING BROTHERS
Boom Sha La-La-Lo – HANS POULSEN
Up There Cazaly – TWO MAN BAND
Waterloo Road – SMACKA FITZGIBBON
A Little Boy’s Chritmas Prayer – KEITH MCGOWAN
Melanie Make Me Smile – STRANGERS
Knock Knock, Who’s There – LIV MAESSEN
She’s My kind Of Woman – JOHNNY CHESTER
Henry Ford – MIXTURES
You – MATT FLINDERS
Julianna – HAWKING BROTHERS
Curly – JIMMY HANNAN
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
Country Road Volume 2 – FBAB-5324
Fable
Front Cover
Back Cover
Track Listing
Details unknown.
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird & Crystal Clear
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
Country Road – FBAB-5316
Fable
Track Listing
She’s My kind Of Woman – JOHNNY CHESTER
Put Another Log On The Fire – BILL & BOYD
Old Man Emu – JOHN WILLIAMSON
Best Of My Love – CASH BACKMAN
Truck drivers Lament – HAWKING BROTHERS
Take A Walk In The Country – LEE CONWAY
Carroll Country Accident – BOBBY & LAURIE
Big Country Round – JOHN WILLIAMSON
Me and Bobby McGee – HAWKING BROTHERS
Thinking Of You – LEE CONWAY
Highway 31 – JOHNNY CHESTER
Say That You Need Me – BLUESTONE
He’ll Have To Go – CASH BACKMAN
Gwen – JOHNNY CHESTER
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
The Bootleg Special – BLAB-5309 *
Bootleg
Front Cover
Back Cover
Track Listing
Keep On Rockin’ – BRIAN CADD
Kings Of The World – MISSISSIPPI
Honky Tonk Women – BOOTLEG FAMILY BAND
Back In The Country – STEPHEN FOSTER
The Singer Sang The Song – BLUESTONE
Chimney Sweep Blues – DUTCH TILDERS
Wind And Rain – BLUESTONE
Fairweather Friend – BRIAN CADD
Will I – MISSISSIPPI
Your Mama Don’t Dance – BOOTLEG FAMILY BAND
Make Sweet Love – STEPHEN FOSTER
That’s Alright – DUTCH TILDERS
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
The Fable Stable – FBSA-100
Fable
Track Listing
Boom Sha-La-La-Lo – HANS POULSON
Lady Scorpio – STRANGERS (THE)
The Love Moth – LIV MAESSEN
Curly – JIMMY HANNAN
Green Green – JOHNNY CHESTER
My Old Man’s A Groovy Old Man – VALENTINES (THE)
Sheila Ann – JIMMY HANNAN
Juliette – VALENTINES (THE)
Highway 31 – JOHNNY CHESTER
Just A Little Lovin’ – LIV MAESSEN
Sweet September – STRANGERS (THE)
Mister Curiosity – HANS POULSEN
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
Twenty Fable Chartbusters – FBSA-002
Fable
Track Listing
In The Summertime – MIXTURES
Under The Btidge – JOHN WILLIAMSON
Snowbird – LIV MAESSEN
Through The Eyes Of Love – BOBBY & LAURIE
Mr President – STRANGERS
Jenny Come Out Of Hiding – HANS POULSEN
Waterloo Road – SMACKA FITZGIBBON
Anything Could Happen – JIMMY HANNAN
It Wasn’t Enough – KEITH HUMBER
Cup Of Love – MATT FLINDERS
Yellow River – JIGSAW
All Of A Sudden – MATT FLINDERS
Gimme Dat Ding – FRANKIE DAVIDSON
Give M Some Loving – DELLTONES
Thanks – JIMMY HANNAN
Carroll County Accident – BOBBIE & LAURIE
Light Acros The Valley – HANS PULSEN
Unexplored Shadows Of Mine – JOHN WILLIAMSON
Looking The The Eyes Of A Beautiful Girl – STRANGERS
Mary & Me – FRANCISCUS HENRI
Bootleg, Fable, Rainbird
Ron Tudor was the driving force behind these Melbourne based labels. Fable began in 1969 releasing it’s first single in April 1970, the Bootleg subsidiary followed in January 1972 and had a more country flavour. Fable was given a big boost during a dispute over payments by radio stations who refused the fees imposed by the major labels…
Bootleg & Fable
Bootleg, Fable, Crystal Clear & Rainbird
Fable, Bootleg, Rainbird, Crystal Clear
Bootleg and Fable were sister companies set up by former W & G producer Ron Tudor. Ron Tudor started as a sales rep with W & G in the mid 1950s before setting up their West Melbourne production facilities. He left in 1966 to work for Astor, started June Productions in 1968, and then in 1969 set-up Fable.
Fable’s first release was Curly by TV personality Jimmy Hannan. The second, also April 1970, was the well known hit Boom Sha La La Lo by Hans Poulson and co-written by former Seeker, Bruce Woodley. The last known release was from Bert Newton and the Debney Park High School Band late in 1981.
Bootleg was a sub label of Fable that was run by Brian Cadd.
Enjoy. 🙂