Short Note Explained

Short Note
Type:	studio
Artist:	Matt Finish
Cover:	SHORT NOTE COVER.jpg
Released:	February 1981
Recorded:	1980 at Paradise Studios, Sydney, Australia
Genre:	Rock
Length:	38:20
Label:	Giant Recording Company, CBS
Producer:	Peter Dawkins
Year:	1981
Next Title:	Fade Away
Next Year:	1981

Short Note is the debut album and title track by Australian band Matt Finish, released in January 1981.

The album Short Note peaked at #14 in the Australian albums charts.^[1] The title song peaked at #18. It was recorded by Wendy Matthews and appeared on her 2004 album Café Naturale, featured in Triple M’s Best Songs of the Eighties poll in 2005, in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter, and on numerous compilation albums including Rajon Music Group's Australian Made Volume 2 (2001),^[2] ScreenSound's Running In The Shadows (2004)^[3] and Sony BMG's The Essential Australian series (2008).

A new version of Short Note appears on Matt Finish's 2008 anthology album 1978-2008.

The cover was designed by Eric Gradman.

Track listing

(All songs by Matt Moffitt except where noted)

"Look At Me" (Matt Moffitt, Rick Grossman)
"Hanging On"
"Short Note"
"Layman's Day"
"Forecast"
"Hot Cover" (Moffitt, R. Grossman, J. Clayton, J. Prior)
"Mancini Shuffle"
"Younger Days"
"Respectable"
"You Get So"

Personnel

Matt Moffitt – lead vocals, lead guitar
Jeff Clayton – guitar, backup vocals
Rick Grossman – bass guitar
John Prior – drums
Don Walker – piano ("Younger Days")

Notes and References

Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until Australian Recording Industry Association created its own charts in mid-1988.
http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000025119987&itemSeq=18&total=83&returnFunction=searchResults&scope=scope&displayFormat=sound&simpleTerm=hoodoo&reuseSearch=true&sessionId=reuseSearch288D39B2F29F56462558B28AB32078F71237711196881 Australian music in Trove – Trove
Web site: Archived copy . 29 April 2009 . 10 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140310051401/http://www2b.abc.net.au/guestbookcentral/addcomment.asp?GuestbookID=157&EntryID=210231&view=&numtoview=&start=&sort=&filter1=&filter1val=&filter2=&filter2val=&filter3=&filter3val=&advanced=&pagestart=112 . dead .
Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 195.