Wendy June Saddington (26 September 194921 June 2013), also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian
blues,
soul
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Etymology
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and
jazz
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singer, and was in the bands
Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen
pop newspaper ''
Go-Set
''Go-Set'' was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages. Widely described as ...
'' from September 1969 to September 1970 as an
agony aunt in her weekly "Takes Care of Business" column, and as a feature writer. Saddington had Top 30 chart success with her 1972 solo single "Looking Through a Window", which was written and produced by
Billy Thorpe
William Richard Thorpe AM (29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007) was an English-born Australian singer-songwriter, and record producer. As lead singer of his band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, he had success in the 1960s with "Blue Day", " Poison Iv ...
and Warren Morgan of the
Aztecs. After adopting
Krishna Consciousness in the 1970s she took the name Gandharvika Dasi. In March 2013 she was diagnosed with
oesophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voi ...
, and died on 21 June, aged 63.
Biography
Wendy June Saddington was born on 26 September 1949.
Her father was Henry Saddington and Connie Evans was her mother. Henry was a bus driver and Connie was a raincoat maker. Wendy was the couple's only child and she grew up in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
.
At 13 she bought her first record,
Stevie Wonder's ''
With a Song in My Heart''.
After leaving school Saddington was a typist for a private detective, "just divorces and stuff like that". She quit after he objected to her dress sense and did not allow her a day off for
Melbourne Show Day in September.
She attended a club venue in
Carlton, the Love In, which had two singers and she thought: "Oh my god, I can sing better than that".
Her inspirations were
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blu ...
,
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the " Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock a ...
,
Aretha Franklin and
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
.
The following week at the Love In she asked if she could get up to sing, and promptly provided "Bessie Smith songs and a
Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she w ...
song, 'When I've Passed on'".
The management advised "you can sing here every week".
1960s
Wendy Saddington started her professional musical career in 1967 when she joined as a singer for Melbourne-based soul band Revolution and then
Adelaide
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-based
psychedelic rock band
James Taylor Move
James Taylor Move was a short-lived Australian/British psychedelic pop, progressive rock group from Adelaide. It was formed by Kevin Peek on guitar (ex-Hurricanes, The Twilights, John E. Broome and the Handels), Trevor Spencer on drums, Alan Tar ...
, with
Kevin Peek
Kevin Peek (21 December 1946 – 11 February 2013) was an Australian guitarist, playing both rock and classical music, best known for his work with the progressive rock band Sky.
He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and initially p ...
on
guitar
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(later in
Sky
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In the field of astronomy, ...
),
Trevor Spencer
Trevor Spencer (born 1947 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian songwriter, record producer and drummer. He studied drums and percussion from the age of 10. By the age of 14, he was playing professionally in bands in Adelaide and Melbourne, w ...
on
drums and
Alan Tarney
Alan Tarney (born 19 November 1945) is an English record producer and musician. He was born in Northside, Workington, Cumberland, but spent his teenage years in Adelaide, Australia, where he met his songwriting and musical partner Trevor Spence ...
on
bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...
.
When
Perth
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pop/R&B/
blues group, The Beat 'n Tracks, relocated to Melbourne, Saddington joined and the group were renamed,
The Chain
"The Chain" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album '' Rumours''. It is the only song from the album with writing credits for all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John ...
, in December 1968. Saddington provided the name from Franklin's "
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a song written by Don Covay. Aretha Franklin first released the song as a single in 1967 and subsequently it appeared on many of her albums. It hit number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot Rhythm & Blues chart and number two on ...
".
The Chain line-up were Saddington on vocals,
Phil Manning on guitar and vocals, Warren Morgan on
piano
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and vocals, and Murray Wilkins on bass guitar.
The teen
pop newspaper, ''
Go-Set
''Go-Set'' was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages. Widely described as ...
'' started publishing in 1966, and in 1968, as a guest writer, Saddington provided an interview of soul and blues singer,
Max Merritt
Maxwell James Merritt (30 April 1941 – 24 September 2020) was a New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and guitarist who was renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B. As leader of Max Merritt & The Meteors, his best known hits are " Slipp ...
.
In March 1969 Saddington was described by ''
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times.
History
''The Canberra Times'' was launched in ...
''s Garry Raffaele as "by far the best female rhythm and blues singer in the country. That's a relative judgment; objectively she is an exciting, raging swinger in the style of Aretha Franklin ... vocally she screams and roars and sighs with the rhythmic feel of
ranklin.
Saddington left the band in May that year prior to any known recordings, the band later shortened their name to Chain and had a hit with "Black and Blue".
In June 1969 she explained to ''Go-Set'' readers "I only want to be in it up to my waist, not up to my neck ... My attitude was all wrong in the end. I didn't care if I turned up late or drunk for a job ...
he other band membersknew I was unhappy, but they were powerless ... it was the promoters who handed out the money and they're a pack of misers".
''Go-Set'' had an
agony aunt column, "Dear Leslie Pixie", initially written by Sue Flett and then by Jean Gollan.
From September 1969 to September the following year, Saddington provided the weekly "Takes Care of Business" column in its stead, and was also a feature writer.
In 2005 founder of ''Go-Set'',
Phillip Frazer
Phillip Frazer (born 1 May 1946, in Melbourne, Australia) is a writer, editor and publisher. He was a founder of the weekly teen pop newspaper ''Go-Set'' in 1966, NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages. which was a popular Australian music paper from 1966 t ...
, told listeners of
3CV radio, "
hewas so distinctive in her presentation ... she developed a cult following that included some of our gay female staff". He approved the idea of a "working class girl from the suburbs, giving advice to the kids".
Australian
music commentator, David Martin Kent, said that in her column, "Saddington dealt with the realistic issues of pregnancy, loneliness, and sometimes suicide. Her approach was to focus on the reality of the teenagers' problems, and provide answers that met that reality head-on".
In 1969, ''Go-Set'' was the only Australian newspaper or magazine dealing with teen issues and culture. Rival newspapers attacked Saddington's direct approach, and parents, on talk-back radio, challenged her answers as not being aimed at the correct age group: "her readers were too young to understand the column".
Saddington defended her writing with "Obviously some people can't face reality".
In 2002 she recalled "one of the last things I wrote was that if they could talk more to their mothers then they wouldn't have to write to me".
According to
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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(ABC) TV show, ''
Long Way to the Top
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'' (2001), "
addingtonhad a wild appearance with heavily made-up eyes, a huge
afro
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, and usually wore copious beads and bangles, with a pair of Levis and a cheesecloth top".
In an interview on ABC TV series, ''
GTK
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'' in October 1969, she stated that some members of the public laughed at her appearance and even became abusive. She also expressed dissatisfaction with the superficiality of the pop scene which made success difficult.
1970s
On the
Australia Day
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weekend (24 and 25 January) 1970,
Ourimbah
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was the venue for the "Pilgrimage for Pop", the nation's first rock music festival.
Saddington performed as a solo artist, with other acts including
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs and
Jeff St John's Copperwine.
Julie Kusko from ''
The Australian Women's Weekly
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'' estimated some 6000 to 10000 attendees "sat and watched, taking the long delays between poor performances without a murmur ... At night the music became better, and psychedelic lighting and colored searchlights helped. A couple of artists got standing ovations, surprisingly, for songs of the rock-'n-roll style of 15 years ago".
Despite local predictions "that it would all turn into a drug and sex orgy", there was some nudity and drug use, but police only "laid four charges of indecency and ten for language and offensive behaviour".
From March 1970 to February 1971, Saddington was co-lead vocalist with St John in Copperwine.
Saddington had previously interviewed St John for ''Go-Set'' after the singer, born with
spina bifida
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, had performed on a TV show without his requested stool.
Saddington had taken the TV station to task over St John being "forced to perform, propped precariously, on a slippery studio floor on
iscrutches".
During Saddingtion's time the other members of Copperwine were
Harry Brus
Harry Brus (born April 1949, in Graz, Austria) is an Australian bass player and guitarist, best known for his work with Matt Finish, Kevin Borich, Renée Geyer, Australian Crawl, Leo Sayer, Marcia Hines, Jimmy Barnes, Ross Wilson and Billy T ...
on bass guitar, Ross East on guitar and vocals, Peter Figures on drums, and Barry Kelly on
keyboards and vocals.
In January 1971, Copperwine attended the
Wallacia Festival, in central New South Wales, and recorded a
live album without leader, St John.
It was released as ''Wendy Saddington and Copperwine Live'' but Saddington had left before its release in February by
Festival Records
Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1952 and operated until 2005.
Festival was a wholly owned subsidiary of News Limited from 1961 to ...
on their Infinity label.
Saddington was not pleased with the quality of the live album.
Nevertheless, Australian
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
,
Ian McFarlane, felt her tenure with Copperwine had "motivated many changes in
heirmusical direction, with much of the soul-copying being replaced by a more purist blues-oriented sound. That change was heard on the album".
In July 1971, Saddington released her debut solo single, "Looking Through a Window", which reached No. 22 in September.
It was co-written and co-produced by
Billy Thorpe
William Richard Thorpe AM (29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007) was an English-born Australian singer-songwriter, and record producer. As lead singer of his band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, he had success in the 1960s with "Blue Day", " Poison Iv ...
and her former bandmate, Warren Morgan of the Aztecs.
The Aztecs, including Morgan and Thorpe, backed her on the recording.
Soon after, Saddington formed Teardrop which were featured in an 11-minute documentary
short for
Film Australia
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, ''Australian Colour Diary No. 43: Three Directions in Australian Pop Music'' (1972) directed by
Peter Weir
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(future director of ''
Dead Poets Society
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'' and ''
Master and Commander
''Master and Commander'' is a 1969 nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in th ...
'').
Chart success for "Looking Through a Window" led Festival to re-release the Copperwine album as ''Looking Through a Window'' with the single added as a bonus track in 1972.
From October 1972 to the end of 1974 Saddington regularly supported Sydney
drag performance troupe, Sylvia and the Synthetics, which had various members including Danny Abood (aka Daniel Archer),
Doris Fish
Doris Fish (born Philip Clargo Mills; 11 August 1952 – 22 June 1991) was a drag queen, artist, actor and writer, based in Sydney, Australia, and San Francisco, California, United States. As Doris Fish, Mills wrote and starred in the cult movi ...
(aka Philip Mills) and Jacqueline Hyde (aka Mel Slatterly).
A discussion with Saddington had provided the name, "I was with
erone night on our way to 'Chez Ivy's' and we just started talking about names for groups. You know, raging along and we suddenly hit on Sylvia ... and 'Synthetics' just seemed to go so well".
Chez Ivy's was a wine bar in Bondi Junction which was frequented in the 1970s by gays and lesbians.
Sylvia and the Synthetic's history "paralleled the early years of the gay rights movement" in Oxford Street, Sydney.
In March 1973,
The Who
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's rock opera ''
Tommy
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People
* Tommy (given name)
* Tommy Atkins, or just Tommy, a slang term for a common soldier in the British Army
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Tommy'' (1931 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Tommy'' (1975 fil ...
'' was performed as an orchestral version in Australia with Saddington in the role of The Nurse.
Other Australian artists were
Daryl Braithwaite
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(as Tommy), Billy Thorpe,
Doug Parkinson
Douglas John Parkinson (30 October 1946 – 15 March 2021) was an Australian pop and rock singer. He led the bands Strings and Things/A Sound (1965), the Questions (1966–1968), Doug Parkinson in Focus (1968–1970, 1971), Fanny Adams (1970 ...
,
Broderick Smith,
Jim Keays
James Keays (9 September 194613 June 2014) was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career. He ...
,
Colleen Hewett
Colleen Hewett (born 16 April 1950) is an Australian singer and actress.
Hewett's top 40 singles on the Kent Music Report include " Super Star", " Day by Day" (both 1971), " Carry That Weight" (1972), "Dreaming My Dreams with You" (1980) ...
,
Linda George,
Ross Wilson,
Bobby Bright
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, and
Ian Meldrum (as Uncle Ernie in Sydney).
From the early 1970s Saddington was a follower of
Prabhupada and joined the
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. ISKCON was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktiv ...
, she took the name, Gandharvika Dasi.
She had been introduced to the movement in 1972 when visiting New York.
In the mid-1970s Saddington worked with various groups including Shango and Blues Assembly, and in New York with Jeffrey Crozier Band.
Her performing career declined in the late 1970s as her involvement with Krishna Consciousness became a major focus.
1980s–2000s
In 1983 Wendy Saddington returned to her music career by forming Wendy Saddington Band with Bobby Gebert on keyboards,
Harvey James
Harvey James born Harvey William James Harrop (20 September 195215 January 2011) was an English-Australian rock guitarist. He was a member of the bands Mississippi (1973–74), Ariel (1974–75), Sherbet (1976–80, 1980–81) and the Party Bo ...
(ex-
Ariel
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Film and television
*Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award
* ''Ariel'' (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki
* ''ARIEL Visual'' and ''ARIEL Deluxe'', 1989 and 1991 anime video series based on the novel series ...
,
Sherbet,
Swanee) on guitar, Billy Rylands on bass guitar, and Chris Sweeney on drums.
A second version appeared in 1986 to 1987 with Angelica Booth on bass guitar,
Rose Bygrave
Roslyn Louise Bygrave (born 1955) is an Australian singer-songwriter.
Life and career
Roslyn Louise Bygrave grew up in the small town of Willaura in the Western District of Victoria and later attended secondary school and art school in Balla ...
(ex-
Goanna
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Around 70 species of ''Varanus'' are known, 25 of which are found in Australia. This varied group of carnivorous reptiles ranges ...
) on keyboards, Mick Lieber (ex-
Python Lee Jackson
Python Lee Jackson were an Australian rock band active from 1965 to 1968, before a brief sojourn in the United Kingdom from late 1968 to mid-1969. The group had recorded a single, " In a Broken Dream" (October 1970), featuring Rod Stewart as gue ...
) on guitar and Des McKenna ("Animal" from ''
Hey Hey It's Saturday'' house band) on drums.
This line-up mainly played reggae music and toured rural New South Wales including
Tamworth.
They recorded an album at Tamworth's ENREC studios, which was not released as the
master tapes
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were lost.
In August 1994, Australian art historian, Catriona Moore, dedicated her book, ''Indecent Exposures. Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography'' to photographer
Carol Jerrems and used Jerrems' photo, "Wendy Saddington 1973", to promote the work.
On 5 September 1998 Saddington provided guest vocals on ''One Night Jamm'' by
Kevin Borich Express, which also has guest vocals and harmonica by
Ross Wilson (ex-
Daddy Cool,
Mondo Rock
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).
The band's line up was Kevin Borich on lead guitar and vocals, his son
Lucius Borich
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on drums, and Ben Rosen on bass guitar.
Saddington "sang a number of jazzy, free-form blues tunes".
Around 1985 Saddington had formed a duo with pianist
Peter Head, performing mainly at the Civic Hotel and at various Kings Cross and Darlinghurst venues. They worked irregularly together for the remainder of the decade. In 2002 Head organised a Saddington concert at Sydney's jazz and blues venue, The Basement, curating a soul, jazz line up with Lachlan Doley on Hammond organ, Peter Figures on drums, and
Jackie Orszaczky
Miklós József "Jackie" Orszáczky (8 May 1948, Budapest, Hungary 3 February 2008, Sydney, Australia) was a Hungarian- Australian musician, arranger, vocalist and record producer. His musical styles included jazz, blues, R&B, funk and pr ...
on bass guitar. The concert was recorded but is as yet unreleased.
In 2003, Saddington provided three tracks for the album, ''Women 'n Blues'', with other tracks by Kate Dunbar, Sally King,
Jeannie Lewis and Margret RoadKnight.
In August 2012 Saddington appeared on celebrity musician quiz show, ''
RocKwiz'', on SBS-TV, where she performed Simone's "Backlash Blues".
In December that year she recalled her career "I'm not into legacies ... I usually get a job once in a blue moon ... I guess it is by choice in a way. But at the same time I have always thought I would have liked to have earned a living at it".
She believed that Krishna Consciousness had "saved my life", reviewing her life as a heavy drinker "I honestly think if I had gone on with that, it would have ended up like Janis Joplin. Too fast; not good enough; too soon, you know, bang".
In March 2013 she was diagnosed with
oesophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voi ...
, Wendy Saddington died on 21 June 2013, aged 63.
Awards and nominations
Go-Set Pop Poll
The Go-Set Pop Poll was coordinated by teen-oriented pop music newspaper, ''
Go-Set
''Go-Set'' was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages. Widely described as ...
'' and was established in February 1966 and conducted an annual poll during 1966 to 1972 of its readers to determine the most popular personalities.
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, Female Vocal
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, herself
, Female Vocal
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, 1971
, herself
, Best Girl Vocal
, 4th
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, herself
, Female artist
, 4th
References
External links
*
* Photos:
*
"Australian singer Wendy Saddington and the band Chain, 1969"by Greg Weight, held by
National Library of Australia
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.
*
"Wendy Saddington 1973"by
Carol Jerrems, stored at
National Gallery of Australia
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.
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1949 births
2013 deaths
Australian soul singers
Deaths from cancer in Victoria (Australia)
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Musicians from Melbourne
20th-century Australian musicians
Australian women pop singers
20th-century women musicians
Chain (band) members
20th-century Australian women