"The Librettos"
Complete
Discography
New
Zealand Recordings
45 Singles
(I'm not sure of exact dates. All 1963 or 1964)
Funny
Things (Blythe) b/w I'll Send it Your Way
(Peacock-Stone) HMV-HR.218
Young Blood (Lieber-Stoller) b/w/ That's Alright With
Me (Peacock-Stone) HMV-HR.219
Baby, It's Love (Peacock-Stone) b/w Great Balls of Fire
(Hammer-Blackwell) HMV-HR.221
Walkin' The Dog (Thomas) b/w It's Alright (Andrews)
HMV-HR.232
LP
"Let's Go With The Librettos"
1964 or early
1965, HMV-MCLP6191
Let's Go (Duncan-Duncan)
Pride and Joy (Stevenson-Whitfield-Gaye)
I'm a Dog (Peacock-Stone)
Mary Mary (Peacock-Stone)
I'm Gonna Say Yeah (Peacock-Stone)
Crying For You (Peacock-Stone)
The Girl Can't Help it (Troup)
My Babe (Johnson)
Twilight Time (Ram-Nevins-Nevins-Dunn)
Fine and Mellow (McKay) -Not David McKay!
Everything's Alright (Crouch-Konrad-Stavely-James-Karlson)
Got You on My Mind (Peacock-Stone)
Baby It's Love (Peacock-Stone)
All these
recordings were officially produced by EMI executive, Dennis
Bull, but in reality we produced them ourselves with the help of
sound engineer, Frank Douglas.
The Librettos
made a single for an independent NZ label before any of the above
listed ones but it was released under my name because we were
trying to negotiate a deal with EMI and didn't want to risk
losing it. It is...
Rod Stone:
- Skye
Boat(Lawson) b/w Friendly Persuasion
(Webster-Tiomkin)
1962 Lexian LS-3.
I am not sure if Lou Parun or John England was on this. I think
it was Lou, but as he was still making his own records for Lexian
at this time I'm doubtful. Lou can't remember either!
Other
Lexian releases featuring Librettos:
Lou Parun
-with Librettos & Orchestra
A World I
Can't Live In (Miller) b/w Outsider (Tepper/ Bennett)
LS-8
Lou
Parun (Possibly with Librettos; definitely Rod on guitar)
You Know What I Mean (Peacock - NOT Brian) b/w One Last
Kiss (Adams / Strouse) LS-1
Sammy
Rogers (Real name: Roger Simpson)
Somebody to Love (Darin) b/w Sleepless Nights LS-4
Probably some variant of the Librettos on this - Rod for sure.
Rod played on most Lexian releases and many other Wellington
recordings at this time.
Various other Librettos may have featured from time to time.
Australian
Releases
(Not 100% sure of dates)
Great Balls of Fire b/w Twilight Time (from NZ
Recordings) 1965 HMV EA-4687
Ella Speed (Trad. arr. R.Stone) b/w I Want Your Love
(Peacock-Stone) 1965 HMV EA-4704
She's a Go Go (Peacock-Stone) b/w I Cry
(Peacock-Stone) 1965 Sunshine QK-1162
Rescue Me (Smith-Miner) b/w What Do You Want to Make
Those Eyes at Me For?(McCarthy-Johnson-Monaco) 1965 Sunshine
QK-1251
Kicks (Mann-Weill) b/w Watcha Gonna Do About It?
(Samwell-Potter)1966 Sunshine QK- 1341
All Sunshine recordings produced by Pat Aulton.
1997
Re-issue CD
(NZ Only)
Let's Go
With The Librettos
EMI 7243 8 21715
Contains all EMI & Sunshine material except Sunshine QK-1251
and has unreleased Sunshine Records track....
Lovin' Time (Peacock-Stone) featuring Pat Aulton on Vocal
Harmony.