Friday Flashback: Sweet & Sour
Back in 1984 an ABC music drama followed a fictional band, The Takeaways.
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Back in 1984 ABC music drama Sweet & Sour followed a fictional band, The Takeaways, to break into the Sydney music scene.
Produced by Jan Chapman, the cast included Tracy Mann, David Reyne, Sandra Lillingston, Arky Michael, Ric Herbert and Robin Copp.
The soundtrack album went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies. This song (with Deborah Conway on vocals) even charted at #13. GANGgajang were formed as a direct result of four of their members involvement as musicians/songwriters for the show.
It ran for 20 episodes and included appearances from Megan Williams, Martin Vaughan, Jane Clifton, Daniel Abineri, George Spartels, Amanda Muggleton, Marc Hunter, Syd Heylen, Renee Geyer, Red Symons, Jon English, Molly Meldrum, Robert Hughes, John Paul Young, Christina Amphlett, Ignatius Jones, Kirk Pengilly, and Glenn Shorrock.
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My partner and her friends were extras in episode 6 and are some of the blink and you miss them faces in the opening credits!
Poor Megan Williams passed of Breast Cancer at 43.
Ahh – Memories.
Loved this show!
How totally awesome if this could be played during rage’s Retro Month!
Loved it. Watched it religiously and was one of the 70000 that had the soundtrack
Oh I remember Sweet And Sour. Good show, it was! The music rights would be probably difficult now but would like ABC to bring it back or put it on iview.
I think the music rights have stopped it being repeated or released on dvd