Little River Band – Emma and Countdown Interview
Little River Band arrive in London ahead of their upcoming U.S. tour. Countdown’s Molly Meldrum interviews Glenn Shorrock and Beeb Birtles.
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Little River Band – Everyday Of My Life
Written By: Beeb Birtles
Released: April 1976 From the ‘After Hours’ LP
Lead Singer: Beeb Birtles
Lineup in this clip: Glenn Shorrock, Beeb Birtles, Graeham Goble, Derek Pellicci, Ric Formosa & Roger McLachlan
Little River Band – Every Day Of My Life
Written By: Beeb Birtles
Released: April 1976
From the ‘After Hours’ LP
Lead Singer: Beeb Birtles
Little River Band – ‘Emma’
Written by: Glenn Shorrock
From the Self Titled Debut Album
Released: November 1975
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Little River Band – It’s A Long Way There
Little River Band – It’s A Long Way There
Label: EMI – 1975
Written: Graham Goble
Lead Singer: Glenn Shorrock
Producer: Glenn Wheatley, The Little River Band
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Graeham Goble: “I wrote that song about how I moved to another state and I missed Adelaide a lot. I used to drive home 8–10 hours each month to visit my family. That’s where the title came from. And then as we used to play 7 nights a week, we were battling for material, we’d go for very long jams on that song, sometimes 20 minutes at a time. And during the long outros, I would hear and come up with different passages, so I would often jot them down and rehearse them and add or take out a bit here and there. Today, I believe that the lyric is about a personal journey, a journey through lifetimes to your soul evolution.”
*Although Roger McLachlan and Ric Formosa are featured on the record, David Briggs and George McArdle feature in this video.
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Little River Band – ‘It’s A Long Way There’
The Original Little River Band performing “It’s a Long Way There” on Australian television live on GTK (ABC).
Lineup: Beeb Birtles – Guitar/Vocals, Glenn Shorrock – Lead Vocals, Graeham Goble – Guitar/Vocals, Derek Pellicci – Drums, Ric Formosa – Lead Guitar, Roger McLachlan – Bass
‘It’s A Long Way There’ written by Graeham Goble.
Little River Band – It’s A Long Way There (1975)
The Original Little River Band performing “It’s a Long Way There” on Australian television Live On GTK.
Lineup: Glenn Shorrock, Beeb Birtles, Graeham Goble, Derek Pellicci, Roger McLachlan & Ric Formosa
Little River Band – My Lady & Me
Written-By – Graeham Goble
Released: October 1975
Lead Singer: Glenn Shorrock
Little River Band – Curiosity Killed The Cat
Written By: Beeb Birtles
From the debut album: Little River Band – 1975
Lead Singer: Glenn Shorrock
The band’s first single, “Curiosity (Killed the Cat)”, was released in September ahead of the debut album and peaked at No. 15 on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart.
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Little River Band Crack the U.S market
The first Australian group to really make it in the U.S. – Little River Band.
Glenn Wheatley is interviewed about his endeavours to get Little River Band their first record contract. Michael Chugg, praises Little River Band and through archive footage Glenn Shorrock is also interviewed. Glenn Wheatley explains how he took Little River Band’s songs to Artie Mogull and got rejected, before the band was signed to EMI and took the US by storm.