Bill & Boyd "Swingin' together" 1962

Lower Hutt in the mid-1950s looked like a staid dormitory city for workers who commuted daily to Wellington on the “unit”. The working-class suburb of Naenae was dominated by newly built state houses; on a royal tour, the Queen said the sight was evidence of the country’s “ordered prosperity”...
...But behind the rows of treeless front lawns and weatherboard houses, music was being made. Early adopters of rock and roll, the Hutt Valley’s teenagers flocked to local halls, where youth clubs organised dances and talent quests so that there was no repetition of the local sexual shenanigans investigated by the 1954 Mazengarb report into juvenile delinquency.
From this environment came many musicians who made their name in the 1960s: The Fourmyula, The Simple Image, The Bitter End, vocalist Frankie Stevens.
Before these rock groups, an act emerged from this milieu to enjoy a long international career: Bill and Boyd, a teenage duo from Naenae who modelled themselves on the Everly Brothers...to be continued... - audioculture
trax:
01 Swingin' Together 02 Bluebird 03 Ginny Come Lately 04 (I Wanna) Love My Life Away 05 Like Strangers 06 Come Running 07 Double Troubl 08 Corinna Corinna 09 Cryin' In The Rain 10 South Of The Border 11 Surrender My Love 12 Bye Bye Blackbird 13 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (Bonus Track) 14 I Dropped In To Say Hello (Bonus Track) 15 Linda's Twist (Bonus Track) 16 You Look So Lonely (Bonus Track) 17 Good Golly Miss Molly Twist (Bonus Track) 18 Habit Of Lovin' You (Bonus Track)
…served by Gaius…