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A Giant In The Oz Rock Scene - 3 rare albums.

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JO'K was a giant in the 50's Rock scene here in Australia. This is the second in my series of re-mastered album covers. Released in 1958 by Festival, "Yours Johnny" featured Johnny O'Keefe and The DJ's performing four songs: Roll Over Beethoven, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, Comfort In My Heart, By The Light Of The Silvery Moon. I was excited to find these albums still available. One of them vinyl (pretty rare) The Very Best of The Wild One Audio CD BUY IT NOW THE WILD ONE Audio CD BUY IT NOW My Heart Belongs To You VINYL BUY IT NOW

Dig Richards and The R'Jays "Here to Stay".

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I love to re-create or "re-master" the album covers from early Australian pop music. At a time when Elvis was finding his feet in the USA, Australia music stars were finding theirs, but their success was unknown worldwide. Their album covers are disappearing from view. to bring them back to life is my passion.  The first of these is Digby Richards. Details about this star are well documented in Wikipedia , so rather than go into his bio in detail, I'll use my talents to create a high resolution album cover (picture below). The story is taken verbatim from the back of the original album, and is in itself full of nostalgia: Rare Vinyl Album - Buy Now! It won't last long. Tall, slim, good looking Dig Richards has had a phenomenal rise to success. Dig Rocketed to fame overnight with his smash selling version a tune written by his young brother Doug, “ I Wanna Love You” and quickly followed up with “I’m through”, also composed by Doug Richards and a big