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MOMENTSINMUSIC<br />

From Left – Gilbert Egdell, Michael Glading, Annie Crummer, Kim Willoughby and Dianne Swann<br />

GOING GOLD<br />

Debbie Harwood www.debbieharwood.co.nz<br />

This could be a quiz: guess which NZ female singer is buried behind Michael Glading’s face, Mmmm?<br />

Yes: it is me! CBS had agreed reluctantly to release Melting Pot. I had always liked Michael Glading, but<br />

he didn’t quite get this one. His view was that it wouldn’t work. I remember Michael saying “I like you<br />

Debbie, so we’ll put it in the shops for you, but with no promotion”. And Bob’s yer uncle, it went to #1!<br />

They had under-estimated our massive live audience (take note: LIVE = very important).<br />

This photo is of the Gold status dinner at Oblio’s in Ponsonby 1989, quite flash for us … GOLD, for<br />

God’s sake! We didn’t normally eat that much because we were so poor. Cripes, I did that night and<br />

drank the champagne they were plying us with! However, and I say that like the nasty judge on DWTS:<br />

they presented us with ordinary cassettes, opened, splayed even, glued onto maroon velvet; framed<br />

with those cheap, thin brassy frames that get all spotty within a month. There wasn’t a gold thing in<br />

sight. You are seeing the white paper background in this photo which is the way I’ve hung it on my wall!!<br />

In those days NZ artists were low priority and the policy was that international artists were released on<br />

CD, but local artists weren’t. So we had vinyl and cassettes at the time.<br />

I would have loved an actual gold single or album – but there is always a silver lining. I remember<br />

leaving the motel my husband and I were staying at to go to the dinner, leaving a very beautiful young<br />

journalist interviewing him and he seemed to be enjoying himself a little too much for my liking. So,<br />

when I came back, fired up by the champagne and determined to reclaim my territory – our gorgeous<br />

son, Marlon, was conceived. Oh, what a night! Thanks for being the fluffer Michael!<br />

Australasian Performing Right Association Ltd. An association of <strong>com</strong>posers, authors and publishers of <strong>music</strong> in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific: Having affiliations with similarly constituted organisations throughout the world. Registered Office: Sydney – 6-12 Atchison<br />

Street, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia, Telephone: (02) 9935 7900, Facsimile: (02) 9935 7999. Email: apra@apra.<strong>com</strong>.au Writer Directors: Arthur Baysting (New Zealand), Eric McCusker, Richard Meale LLD AM MBE, Jenny Morris, Chris Neal, Michael Perjanik (Chairman).<br />

Publisher Directors: Robert Aird Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd, John Anderson EMI Song Australia Pty Ltd, Matthew Capper Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd, Ian James Mushroom Music Pty Ltd, Fifa Riccobono J Albert & Son, Damian Trotter Sony/ATV Music Publishing.<br />

Chief Executive: Brett Cottle LLB. Director of NZ Operations: Anthony Healey LLB. New Zealand <strong>APRA</strong>P Editor: Abbie Rutledge Email: arutledge@apra.<strong>com</strong>.au Design: Lorenzo Design. Contributors: Anthony Healey, Brett Cottle, Petrina George, Greer Donovan, Abbie Rutledge,<br />

Arthur Baysting, Richard Mallett, Anthea Sarris, Stephen Gibbs, Kirti Jacobs, Scot Morris, Marshall Smith, Debbie Harwood. The opinions expressed in articles in <strong>APRA</strong>P are not necessarily those held by the <strong>APRA</strong> Board. © 2008 Australasian Performing Right Association Ltd.<br />

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APR AP MAY 2008<br />

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why it’s special to arutledge@apra.<strong>com</strong>.au and it could appear on the back of the next <strong>APRA</strong>P.

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