1960 - Need Someone To Love Me / Sing Sing Sing (Rex RS-015)
Col Joy with the Graduates & The New Notes
1959 - Bad Man / Dreamy Eyes (Festival FK3135)
Col Joy with The Joy Boys & The New Notes
1959 - Rockin’ Rollin’ / Fools Like Me (Not Them) (Festival FK3082)
John Laws & The New Notes
1959 - Be Kind To Each Other / Someone New (Festival FK3098)
The Maori Troubadours & The New Notes
1960 - Lovely Hula Hands / Shakin' In The Shaky Isles (Not Them) (Rex RS-011 / Festival FX10463)
Margaret Hooper With Ron Hardy And The Hardi-Men & The New Notes
1960 - One Step Beyond / The Way We Are (Rex RS-04)
Dig Richards & The R'Jays & The New Notes
1960 - Annie Laurie / South Of The Border (Rex 001)
Eps :
1960 - Rex 4 Star (Rex 1002)
I Am ( The New Notes) / You're Free To Go (Margaret Hooper With Ron Hardy And The Hardi-Men And The New Notes)
1961 - John Laws - A Lover's Question (FX-10,080) Be Kind To Each Other (John Laws & The New Notes) / Someone New (John Laws & The New Notes)
Lp :
1959 - Dig Richards & The R'Jays (Festival FL7119) With The New Notes : You Are My Sunshine / I'm Through / Hush-a-Bye
Biography :
Australian vocal trio from Sydney
consisting of John Bartlett, Peter Griffiths & Ralph Griffiths. They
starting singing together in 1959. They backed many artists on Festival
Records like Col Joy, John Laws or The Maori Troubadours. Festival
Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian
recording and publishing company founded in Sydney in 1952 .
Dig Richards & The R'Jays
A new subsidiary label has
been started at Festival called Rex Records. Now under contract to Rex,
the New Notes write their own material "My Sweetie Pie", "Need Someone
To Love Me" and "Sing Sing Sing" and cut two singles under their name in
1960. They backed Dig Richards and his group, The R'Jays on
"Hush-a-Bye", "I'm Through" and other .
From Left, Ralph Griffiths, John Bartlett and Peter Griffiths
In
1960, they are rated as the most improved vocal group trio in the
country and are also noted for their own compositions. They make regular
appearances on "Bandstand" and "Six O'Clock Rock" and are heard on many
radio. They make personnel Appearances at Dances and various
night-spots in Sidney.
