Give It a Whirl
Give It A Whirl: The Soundtrack from the Major Television Series is a compilation album released in 2003 by recording label, Propeller Records for the six-part New Zealand Documentary Give It A Whirl. The Documentary, released in 2003, traced the development of New Zealand music from the 50's through to 2003. The name is derived from the Neil Finn composed song found on the 1979 Split Enz album, Frenzy. The album was compiled by Simon Grigg, Mark Everton and Richard Driver.
Many of these tracks had, prior to the release of this album, never appeared on CD before.
Track listing
Disc 1
- Rockin' Rockers - Sam Mateparae and The Rockin' Rockers
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Johnny Devlin
- Everybody - Max Merritt and The Meteors
- Do the Blue Beat - Dinah Lee
- How is the Air Up There? - The La De Das
- Daylight Saving Time - Sandy Edmonds
- Painter Man - Larry's Rebels
- Everyone's Gonna Wonder - The Avengers
- Don't Come Any Closer - Allison Durbin
- Home - The Fourmyula
- Country High - Ticket
- Out On The Street - Space Waltz
- Rock'n'Roll Ponsonby - Dragon
- Titus - Split Enz
- Slippin' Away - Max Merritt and The Meteors
- I'm a Texan - Hello Sailor
- Right First Time - Th' Dudes
Disc 2
- Saturday Night (Stay at Home) - Suburban Reptiles
- True Love - Marching Girls
- Don't Ask Me - Toy Love
- One Good Reason - The Swingers
- Sunday Boys - The Screaming Meemees
- Point That Thing Somewhere Else - The Clean
- Devil You Know - DD Smash
- Rolling Moon - The Chills
- Call For Help - Blam Blam Blam
- Sex and Agriculture - Dance Exponents
- Listen - Herbs
- Gaskrankenstation - Headless Chickens
- In The Neighbourhood - Sisters Underground
- Chains - DLT & Che Fu
- Suddenly Strange - Bic Runga
- Dominoes - Fur Patrol
- Pacifier - Pacifier
- Nesian Style - Nesian Mystik
- The Theme from "Give It A Whirl" - Ian Morris