pods for primates : a catalogue of surfboards in australia since 1900
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music

1962 The Atlantics: Bombora-single(instumental) and album.

1963 Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs - the King of Surf City, Kings Cross

1964 The Delltones: Hangin' Five - single, in the style of  The Surfaris Surfer Joe

1965 Little Pattie : Stompin' at Maroubra -single
                   He's My Long Haired Stompy-Wompy Real Gone Surfer Boy -single

1965 Digger Revell : My Little Rocker's Turned Surfie -single

1965 (Sir) Robert Helpman :      xxx        -single, Australia's premier ballet dancer, subsequently coreographer and knighted 

1968 Tamun Shud : Evolution -soundtract album

1970 Tamun Shud/Tully : Sea of Joy - soundtract album

1973 Skyhooks -singer Shirlrey Straun(sp?), surfer. 

1975 Midnight Oil - singer Peter Garrett, bodysurfer
                             -Wedding Cake Isle -single (instrumental), Wedding Cake Island is off Coogee Beach, Sydney and stops most swells from hitting the beach. 

1977 Mental As Anything - strong surf culture influence, particually in the art of lead guitarist, Reg Mombassa. See Mambo.
                                        -Blacktown to Bondi - album track, (Blacktown is an inland Sydney suburb, Bondi a beach)
                                        - Surf and Mull and Sex and Fun - album track
Single cover for
Let's Go to Paradise b/w
My Hands are Tied 1986
Cover design : Reg Mombassa
Single cover for 
Date with Destiny b/w
Surf & Mull & Sex & Fun 1984
Single cover for Sloppy Croc
b/w Sloppier Croc 1986
from the soundtrack to
Crocodile Dundee
Single cover for 
Rock and Roll Music b/w
Apocalyso (recorded live at World Expo '88) 1988
from the soundtrack to
Young Einstein

1979 Australian Crawl - Sons of Beaches - album
                                   - Daughters of the Northern Coast - album track
Pods for Primates  Top Ten Hits
"I'm an Ape-man" The Kinks
"Monkey Man" The Rolling Stones
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide, 'Cept for Me and My monkey" The Beatles
"Guitar-zan" Ray Stevens
"Monkey Man"  Toots and the Maytals
"Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees" The Monkees

fashion
Jeans -diposals shops,boardshorts, tee shirts (logos), sneakers, thongs,duffle coats, plaid shirts-tucked in, Canadian Jackets, Pea Jackets,, Hawaiian shirts,high topped boardshorts- Platts, White Stag Paisley wetsuit,1967 Flower power, hats, Asian -cotton pants/Indian shirts,Ugg boots -Shane, cordoroy -pants/shorts, Cool -black  versus Rad multi-colour wetsuits,Crystal Cylinders, Kream, Billabong/Quicksilver, 1980's rad/colour, Beach Comber Bill's - wedge thongs,
transport
Horse and cart, train,boat-Duke Kahanamoku, truck-surfboats, surf clubs, first cars, bread vans , boat to Hawaii, Malibu - demise of LSClubs, cars, bikes, Storaboard - Manly Ferry, VW Bug & Kombi, Holden station wagon/Sandman, Shaggin Wagon-panelvan, Spray Art, Back window - Chrysler Drifta  ?, MR Porche, 4 wheeldrive - Subaru, Utes, Hatch backs - demise of roof rack, Vans - sailboarders, International travel -plane, Oil crisis,
enviroment
Beach report 1912, Maxwell - promenade, Surf club buildings,
1960 Christians exalted not to litter
Sandming 1960's
Nuclear power 1970's - Ian Cohen versus the US Navy
Sewage outfall protests 1980'sm
humour
Tony Edwards : Captain Goodvibes - The Whole Earth Pigalogue,
Tracks Publishing circa 1975
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