ArtistInfo

Cool Bananas

Band,
Rock

From "Albert Archives" liner notes [silently corrected]: "Musical Salesmen. Arch-lunatic Rory O'Donoghue has a bizarre background in rock music. His teenage groups The Pogs and Oakapple Day were kings of the north shore socialite party set and Cool Bananas, a pop-jazz outfit, enjoyed similar posh popularity. Rory's original concept was for a utility group of ace musos who could back him on his many TV/Radio commercials as well as perform/record as a regular group. As the two purposes merged, Cool Bananas found themselves performing alongside films and slides at launchings of such products as kitchen furniture and overseas travel. Although they never had any aspirations to become the new Sherbet, the group did have a nifty little turn laid on in their honour at Chequers, at which guests were treated to garbage bins full of frozen babanas. Members were (mostly) Rory, Don Reid, Wayne Findlay, Stein Boddington, and drummer Robbie Dearlove, who was replaced by Russell Dunlop on this single and a few gigs for GTK. Cool Bananas backed Kevin Johnson on his first album and then split, with Don Reid resurfacing in Crossfire and Rory O"Donoghue becoming a member of the Aunty Jack TV team and subsequently singer of the national number one hit "Farewell Aunty Jack"."

Members

	Russell Dunlop dr AU
	Rory O'Donoghue key, acg *1949 AU
	Don Reid as, fl, ts AU
	Wayne Findlay p, key AU
	Stein Boddington b AU