Zoot Radio Promotion Tour For First Single
Beeb Birtles: “Radio promotion tour for our first single in Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland. Left To Right: Steve Stone, Ted Higgins, Darryl Cotton and Beeb Birtles.”
Zoot’s Debut In Pink
Beeb Birtles: “September 3, 1968, ZOOT made their pink début at Berties, a popular discotheque in Melbourne, Australia, which started a teen craze with fans.”
Ted Higgins (Zoot Drummer): “Tony Knight (Zoot Co-Manager) decided he wanted to mould a theme. So there were a lot of invitations printed in the shape of big pink hearts with bows on them. Go – Set magazine did a publicity blurb. We went into hiding for a month, without anybody knowing anything. Of course, my mum read it and panicked because she hadn’t heard from me and she couldn’t get in touch with me. They mentioned that all our equipment was smashed and that Tony Knight had replaced it all with pink gear and a pink car with Zoot on it. So the theme ‘Think Pink’ was starting to happen. The night we were opening in Bertie’s, the whole place was done out in pink – pink balloons, pink streamers, and everybody had pink suits on. We had been rehearsing seven nights a week to that particular night.”
Darryl Cotton Covering Up With Zoot Bass Drumhead
Zoot – ‘You’d Better Get Going Now’ Review
Review by: Ed Nimmervoll
Zoot – Better Get Goin’ Now
A You’d Better Get Goin’ 2:08
B Three Jolly Little Dwarfs 2:13
Ted Higgins (Zoot Drummer): “We realised we had to live in Melbourne. How to launch Zoot was planned. They wanted something different, and wanted a single ready. So we caught a train over to Melbourne on the Friday night, with all our equipment. We were booked in Armstrong’s Studios at eleven o’clock the next morning… We hadn’t even picked out a single. When we got to Melbourne, virtually at nine o’clock, we went to Wayne DeGruchy’s place and he said “Here’s five singles, pick one out, you’re going to do one of those. We pressed it in virtually one day and then came back to Adelaide on the Sunday. The song was You’d better Get Goin’ and the B side, incredibly was called Three Jolly Little Dwarves.”
Zoot – Better Get Going Now
written by Jackie Lomax
Released August 1968
#15 Adelaide
This record counts as the original version, since Jackie Lomax’sown recording of it remained unreleased until many years later
ZOOT!
Zoot – Thinking Pink
Zoot With Fahrenheit 451
Zoot To Melbourne?
