Monte Video and the Cassettes explained

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.^[1] 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).^[2]

Discography

Singles

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Title	Peak chart positions		Album
NZ	AUS ^[3]
1982	"Shoop Shoop, Diddy Wop, Cumma Cumma, Wang Dang"	2	11	Monte Vidéo
1983	"Sheba (Sha Sha She Shoo)"	-	-

External links

• Album cover at Classic 45s
• Monte Video page at Re-Inventing Sheep
• Murray Grindlay Bio

Notes and References

1. http://www.reinventingsheep.com/display.php?band=1131&sec=13 Re-Inventing Sheep page on Monte Video and the Cassettes
2. https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/murray-grindlay Murray Grindlay Profile at Audioculture
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

   . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 18.