Saturday, 17 August 2019

G. Wayne Thomas "Crystal Voyager" (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1973

G. Wayne Thomas is a New Zealand born Australia based musician, producer and songwriter. His single "Open Up Your Heart"/"Morning of the Earth" reached #22 on the Australian Singles chart…...Thomas was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia in 1968 and started writing music for commercials. He signed with Warners, relesead a single in 1971 and started working as a producer. He produced the soundtrack to the surf movie Morning of the Earth, changing what was going to be a Tamam Shud album into a various artists record. It featured Tamam Shud, Terry Hannigan, Brian Cadd, John J. Francis, Peter Howe and three G. Wayne Thomas tracks. The soundtrack was released in 1972 along with a single from the album, "Open Up Your Heart"/"Morning of the Earth".
In 1972 he put together a band called Duck to record an album. The band originally comprised Jon English, Bobbi Marchini, John Robinson, Bobby Gebert, Larry Duryea, Teddy Toi and Steve Webb. They released an album of covers, Laid, which was produced by Thomas.
Thomas started his own label, Warm & Genuine, and released a self-titled album in 1973. He followed that up with a soundtrack for Crystal Voyager. For this he put together a studio band called the Crystal Voyager Band. It consisted of Thomas, Bobby Gebert, Mick Liber, Rod Coe and John Proud. His last release on Warm & Genuine was in 1975 after which he signed with Polydor.
In 1979-80 he worked in a duo with Peter Bailey and together they released an album, Missing Persons and four singles. - discogstrax:
01 Changes 02 Into the Blue 03 Junkyard 04 Red Sun Sea 05 Slipping Away 06 Changes 2 07 Morning Light 08 Clouds Cry (That Could Be the Reason) 09 Gypsy Shoes 10 Hollywood 11 Space and Time 12 Listen to the Sunrise 13 Old Mother Sea

4 comments:

RYP said...

G. Wayne Thomas "Crystal Voyager"
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https://www117.zippyshare.com/v/f3VeUqNs/file.html

Psychfan said...

Perhaps similar to Morning of the Earth?
Thanks RYP!

Rhodb said...

Thanks RYP

Being trying to get this album on vinyl for a while but to no avail

Regards


Beachcomber said...

Not far from being the Holy Grail of surf movie soundtracks!!! A huge, huge thanks, RYP.