KING KURT Ooh Wallah Wallah - Original UK LP - Psychobilly Punk Zulu Beat

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KING KURT

Ooh Wallah Wallah

Original UK LP released on Stiff Records in 1983.

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In 1983 King Kurt hit the Top 40 with Destination Zululand on Stiff Records.
They had already built up a manic following at their riotous gigs, famously strewn with all sorts of muck thrown at and from the audience whilst also offering haircuts and drinking competitions.
They followed up with Top 50 singles Mack The Knife and Banana Banana which are both featured here.
Regular TV appearances increased their notoriety as the rat-fixated nutty kids of Rock 'n' Roll.

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Although psychobilly pranksters King Kurt are best remembered for "Destination Zululand," the rambunctious smash with which they stormed the U.K. chart in 1984, to recall them purely as one-hit wonders is to decry another four years of achievement -- four further singles and two full albums also bothered the charts before the group finally faded away during 1987. But even that only begins to tell the band's story, for it wasn't on cold, impersonal wax that King Kurt were at their blistering, mystifying best. It was in concert, where gigs became tribal gatherings, songs became rockabilly psycho chants, and haircuts were -- well, let's just say they were mighty peculiar, and leave it at that.

By summer 1982, the band had prompted enough underground interest that it was imperative that they got a record out. That August, then, saw the band self-finance and release two of their finest numbers to date, the poundingly tribal "Zulu Beat," pressed on self-confessedly "revolting putrid" orange vinyl and packaged within painstakingly hand-drawn and painted picture sleeves. Nine hundred and fifty copies of "Zulu Beat" circulated via the band's shows; all sold out within a matter of weeks. First one, then another repressing was ordered and, suddenly, eyes gazed down from the mainstream ivory towers to ponder this latest mutter from the gutter. By summer 1983, King Kurt had signed to Stiff Records, and entered the studio with producer Dave Edmunds.

"Destination Zululand" was released in October 1983, a triumphant slice of thump-along madness that was accompanied by what remains one of the essential videos of the age, all rolling African deserts, weary English explorers, and -- of course -- savage Zulu warriors, prepared to fight the invaders to the death. And more was to follow, as their producer coaxed a positively staggering album out of the band, rewiring the traditional madness of their live set into a superbly landscaped chasm of chaos and noise. Again, Ooh Wallah Wallah was by no means as big a hit as memory might insist (it spent one week at number 99 before fading), but still its imagery lingers longer than a lot of the year's bigger sellers. That rat again!

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Zulu Beat
Destination Zulu Land
Bo Diddley Goes East
King Kurt's Hound Dog
Wreck-A-Party-Rock
Ghost Riders In The Sky

Side Two

Gather Your Limbs / When The Saints Go Marching In
Rockin' Kurt
Lonesome Train (On A Lonesome Track)
Mack The Knife
Oedipus Rex
Do The Rat

Released on 'Stiff Records' in 1983

Catalogue No. SEEZ 52

Disc is in EX condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition

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