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Monte Video and the Cassettes were a New Zealand band that had a hit single "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang".

About the band

Monte Video and the Cassettes consisted of Murray Grindlay. Murray was an ex-member of 1960s New Zealand band The Underdogs, but is better known today in New Zealand as the writer and voice of many advertising jingles (notably the Crunchie train robbery advertisement, perhaps New Zealand's longest-running television ad).

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details
Monte Vidéo
  • Released: 1983
  • Format: LP
  • Label: Mushroom (L 29020)

Singles

List of singles, with Australian chart positions
Year Title Peak chart
positions
Album
NZ AUS
1982 "Shoop Shoop, Diddy Wop, Cumma Cumma, Wang Dang" 2 11 Monte Vidéo
1983 "Sheba (Sha Sha She Shoo)" - -

References

  1. Re-Inventing Sheep page on Monte Video and the Cassettes
  2. Murray Grindlay Profile at Audioculture
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 18. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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