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" Kelly Street" is a song by Australian
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Frente! Frente! (or Frente) were an Australian folk- pop and indie pop group which originally formed in 1989. The original line-up consisted of Simon Austin on guitar and backing vocals, Angie Hart on lead vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar (later rep ...
. The single was released in October 1992 ahead of their debut studio album, ''
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'' (24 November). The title includes an unintentional misspelling of "accidentally" that the band decided to keep. It peaked at 4 on both the
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and New Zealand Singles Charts, and it was a minor hit in the United Kingdom in 1994, peaking at No. 80 on the
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.


Background and release

Frente! Frente! (or Frente) were an Australian folk- pop and indie pop group which originally formed in 1989. The original line-up consisted of Simon Austin on guitar and backing vocals, Angie Hart on lead vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar (later rep ...
had formed in 1989 by
Simon Austin Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin (born 9 October 1966) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer. Austin was a founding member of Frente! in Melbourne in 1989 with Angie Hart on vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar and M ...
on guitar and backing vocals,
Angie Hart Angela Ruth Hart (born 8 March 1972), billed as Angie Hart, is an Australian pop singer best known for her role as lead vocalist in the alternative pop rock band Frente! and the indie pop duo Splendid with her then husband Jesse Tobias. Hart's ...
on lead vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar and Mark Picton on drums and recorder. O'Connor was moving to a new address in Kenny Street,
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– he mistakenly told his bandmates that it was Kelly Street; "I'm going to write a song about the house" he later told them. Hart suggested that he call it "Accidentally Kelly Street" and Mushroom Records dutifully printed off the single's labels with " Kelly Street", a mistake they decided to keep. Australian musicologist,
Ian McFarlane Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the '' Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' (1999), which was updated for a second edition in 2017. As a journalist ...
, felt it was a "summery, sugar pop single" which was accompanied by "a breezy, slightly kooky video clip." The single was released in October 1992 ahead of their debut studio album, ''
Marvin the Album ''Marvin the Album'' is the Australian folk-pop and alternative rock group Frente!'s debut album, released 24 November 1992 (26 April 1994 outside Australia), and recorded in 1992 at Platinum Studios in Melbourne, Australia. Music videos were m ...
'' (24 November), while in the United Kingdom, the song was not released until 25 April 1994. Hart described it as "a really happy song for me. It's about making all the right decisions and feeling really confident about yourself." As for the title, she recalled "The mis-spelling was deemed by some a genius stroke. Unfortunately, it was not intentional on my part, but I quietly took the credit for years." Austin remembered the track as "perfect pop craft of Tim O'Connor – An undeniable hit song, it was all over the radio for weeks, sweet and sure against the Pacific Northwest snarl and doof doof cuppa-tea. Some of the sourest people I know and love took me to task but you could see they couldn't help singing it as they railed. I would nod, smile, press their shoulders." " Kelly Street" peaked at No. 4 on both the
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and New Zealand Singles Charts as well as No. 80 on the
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. McFarlane noticed that "The band was so popular that television comedy troupe the D-Generation was compelled to produce a spot-on send-up of the video." According to Jeff Jenkins ''
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''s parody, "Accidentally Was Released", featuring
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and
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(formerly of ''
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'') was a "savage send-up of the Kelly Street video" and Hart "soon fell out of love with the song." Austin initially "had a real moment of feeling stabbed... Then I thought, 'You know what? It's an Australian thing.' I know all those guys and they mean it lovingly. To a certain extent, as an Australian, you just have to suck it up. And it's good. People don't allow you to get too full of yourself, or full of yourself at all, or even half full of yourself."


Track listings

Australian 7-inch single :A. "Accidently Kelly Street" :B. "
Ordinary Angels "Ordinary Angels" is a song by Australian indie pop group, Frente!. The song was not released as single in Australia. It was released in North America and Europe in 1993 and included on their debut studio album ''Marvin the Album ''Marvin th ...
" Australian cassette single # "Accidently Kelly Street" # "Many Wings" # "Here You Come Again" # "Somethin' Stupid (Stoopid)" UK CD single # "Accidently Kelly Street" # "Oh Brilliance" # "Ordinary Angels" # "Testimony"


Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the UK CD single liner notes. Studio * Recorded at Platinum Studios (
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) Personnel * Tim O'Connor – writing, bass guitar *
Angie Hart Angela Ruth Hart (born 8 March 1972), billed as Angie Hart, is an Australian pop singer best known for her role as lead vocalist in the alternative pop rock band Frente! and the indie pop duo Splendid with her then husband Jesse Tobias. Hart's ...
– lead vocals *
Simon Austin Simon Sean Nicholas David Austin (born 9 October 1966) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer. Austin was a founding member of Frente! in Melbourne in 1989 with Angie Hart on vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar and M ...
– guitar, backing vocals * Mark Picton – drums * Frente! – production *
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– production, mixing, recording


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