New World was an Australian pop band formed in Brisbane , Queensland in They are best known for their Top 10 hit single , "Tom-Tom Turnaround", which was released in In , John Kane born 18 April , Glasgow , Scotland joined the group, and by the end of the decade they were a popular act. At the beginning of the s, songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman booked the group on television. The group's biggest hit was a version of "Tom-Tom Turnaround", also recorded by Sweet. This was followed by "Kara, Kara", which was a hit in the United Kingdom and Germany; although a German language version of the tune was a bigger hit for Peter Orloff. However, this song would later become a worldwide hit for Smokie in
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Buoyed by this success the trio travelled back to England in early , working the club circuit. It made 15 in February , and would doubtless have climbed higher had Lynn Anderson not been topping the chart with her own version at the same time. The three members of New World were tried at the Old Bailey in with offences under the Forgery Act after attempting to rig votes on Opportunity Knocks. They admitted they had taken part in a plot involving students at the West Wickham Teacher Training College in Kent to send bogus votes to the TV show but were cleared of other allegations linking them to infamous prostitute Janie Jones. About Contact FAQ. Nostalgia Central. Blue Mink was formed in London in by a group of Britain's top session musicians with the sole intention of recording an album Playing tough-minded rock with pop hooks, hard rock riffs,
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