Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band

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Years Active
1969 – 1980 (11 years)
If asked to name the most entertaining and best-loved Australian band of the early '70s, it's a fair bet that most young people who lived through that period would nominate The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band. This crazily brilliant Melbourne-based ensemble played a uniquely Aussie brand of jug-band blues, spiced with jazz, swing, popular standards, cabaret, sideshow alley schtick and vaudeville routines including slapstick, tap dancing, juggling, magic and even fire-eating. An obvious and common comparison would be England's Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, but it would be quit… read more
If asked to name the most entertaining and best-loved Australian band of the early '70s, it's a fair bet that most young people who lived through that period would nominate The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band. This crazily brilliant Melbourne-based ensemble played a uniquely Aussie br… read more
If asked to name the most entertaining and best-loved Australian band of the early '70s, it's a fair bet that most young people who lived through that period would nominate The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band. This crazily brilliant Melbourne-based ensemble played a uniquely Aussie brand of jug-band blues, spiced with jazz, swing, popular standards, cabar… read more

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1 Wangaratta Wahine Wangaratta Wahine
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2 Wangaratta Wahine Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
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3 Making Whoopee The Cat Is High
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4 Play track Wangaratta Wahine Hernando's Hideaway
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5 Wangaratta Wahine Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon)
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6 Play track Wangaratta Wahine Lovesick Blues
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7 Wangaratta Wahine Jug Band Music
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8 Smoke Dreams I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
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9 Wangaratta Wahine Wait for Me Juanita
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10 Smoke Dreams After You've Gone
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Albums

  1. 435 listeners

    1973 · 12 tracks

    Wangaratta Wahine
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  2. 239 listeners

    1 Jan 1973 · 11 tracks

    Smoke Dreams
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  3. 60 listeners

    1976 · 10 tracks

    Making Whoopee
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  4. 22 listeners

    16 Mar 2018 · 15 tracks

    The Best of Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
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