Raspberry Cordial

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In the early 90s I was at the public bar Central Club in Richmond as had been my wont, drinking and playing pinnies, when we heard that the act playing next door was some fledgling local gig which wasn't charging entry. Based on the high recommendation of the last 3 words of the previous sentence, we gave it a bash.

I'd heard 'Raspberry Cordial', the band/artist, mentioned on the radio previously, some kid making silly songs. The radio played two tunes, "There's No Kangaroos In My Backyard" and "Lets Play Matchbox Cars". They were odd, silly, and funny if you had enough beer in you. I did. I taped both songs and still have them on cassette.

At the Central Club, this bloke with a childish, sqeaky voice, was doing what we all thought was high art in our mid-teens (or late teens ... or late 20s ... shutup Kev you'll cause a scene) ... he'd rewritten the lyrics to existing tunes for purposes of comedy. I can only recall one : Prince's 'Cream' had been mutated into an ode to 'Mr Sheen'.

While some of it was very amusing, we did still pay more attention to the pool table at the back of the venue, than to the live gig at the front. The crowd numbered less than two dozen, possibly just his mates and any others who had been in the public bar and heard there was no cover charge next door.

So ... I'm currently going through all my old cassettes, trying to *cough* catalogue *cough* them, and I come across these two tunes by Raspberry Cordial : "Lets Play Matchbox Cars" and "There's No Kangaroos In My Backyard". So I plug the name 'Raspberry Cordial' into google, and then added the song titles. I was shocked by what I learnt.

So, how many of you punters already knew that Raspberry Cordial was a lyricist alter ego of John Safran? :eek:
 

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Oh he had, huh? My bad, I have very rarely watched his shows. Have never heard of race around the world. But I'd seen that show on the Ray Martin interview and the video clip made by a toddler, and then watched most of the religious thingy, and didn't hear mention.

I think the unbrain loves John Safran and wants to marry him :p :D

Anyways so tell me more, has he ever made the Top 40, is his music on sale, is anyone aware of the three songs I mentioned above? Where can I get them?
 

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Oh he had, huh? My bad, I have very rarely watched his shows. Have never heard of race around the world. But I'd seen that show on the Ray Martin interview and the video clip made by a toddler, and then watched most of the religious thingy, and didn't hear mention.

I think the unbrain loves John Safran and wants to marry him :p :D

Anyways so tell me more, has he ever made the Top 40, is his music on sale, is anyone aware of the three songs I mentioned above? Where can I get them?
Apparently if you send him your old casset, he well send you back 2 BRAND NEW copies (he assumes if you own one of his recordings, you would have listened to it so much it would be stuffed), along with a thesis on why Raspberry Cordial were misunderstood by everyone. Or something!
 

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Yeah, I got a little Raspberry Cordial CD EP given to me by a friend about 10 years ago. It was clearly only of novelty value, a bit of a giggle the first time round - "University Elevator Music" took aim at grunge music, and I always chuckled at the lyrics to "There's No Kangaroos In My Backyard" because ... well ... there is!
 
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Well jeez, he's only mentioned it about a million times on his television shows, going so far back as Race Around The World. If this comes as a suprise to anyone then i'll be very suprised.
Well i think i will now hop into bed and swallow a bottle of sleeping pills , such is the disgust levelled at myself for such ignorance :rolleyes:
 

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It's all over his DVDs, at least the Music Jamboree one....I think once in every episode he mentions his "seminal North Balwyn hip-hop act" and he does a brief segment on the history of it somewhere.

The best parts of that are at the beginning, with the kid who comes into the music store.

"Hi, do you have any Def Leppard from when they drummer still had two arms and they didn't suck?".
 

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Wowsers GOJJ, you have a CD? So does it also have 'Matchbox cars' and 'Mr Sheen' on it?
I suspect the CD might have gone AWOL some years back, but hopefully I've got it backed up on an old audio tape somewhere. I'll let you know if I can hunt it down.
 

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I saw a couple of Monash Uni CD's in a shop in Chapel St a couple of months ago that had some Raspberry Cordial songs on them. They were $4 each. I considered buying one for the Jon Safran novelty aspect, but thought they'd probably be really bad, so didn't. I expect they'll still be there. I'll have a look next time I'm down that way & get you a copy if you want Kev.

Safran had a minor hit with Not The Sunscreen Song a few years ago.
 

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Don't fret GOJJ and FP, Its not quite that important to me. Just interesting is all. :)
No worries. From what I've heard of Safran's singing, I didn't think they'd be much good.
 

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Just bumping this because I dunno if I ever thanked Fat Pizza for the "Lots the CD" that suddenly one day appeared in mail box!

Also bumping because I still can't get hold of any of these songs grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 

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I just uploaded the poor quality sound files I had saved from the old poor quality blank cassette recordings of the old poor quality radio station transmissions back when this happened ... 1992 or 93, prob 93. I really miss the Central Club Hotel, it had gone all crap the last time I saw it.

Let's Play Matchbox Cars
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There's No Kangaroos In My Backyard
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