Where the Legends of South African Rock still live!

Introduction | 50s | 60s | 70s | 80s | 90s | 2000+

Compilation Albums

The History


• Africa Shakes - SA's first beat film, starring Bill Kimber and the Couriers
  
  
• Beat Merchants and The Underground Legends - a history of SA rock and roll in the 60s by Nick Warburton & Tertius Louw.
  
  
• Debonaire (Teen magazine 1964-1965)
  
  
• Fontana - singles 1964-1971
  
  
• Pye - singles 1964-1970
  
  
• Rave - single releases
  
  
• RCA Victor - singles 1962-1970
  
  
• Rare Record Covers - The SA Connection (Hans Pokora, 1997)
  
  
• SA Jazz Rock Retrospective - 1959-1979
  
  
• South African Top 20 Hits 1958 - 1989

The Artists


• 004s
• The A-Cads
• The Amazons
• The Bats
• Nico Carstens
• John and Phillipa Cooper
• Niki Daly
• Des And Dawn
• Dream Merchants
• The Drifters
• June Dyer
• Sam Evans
• The Flames
• Billy Forrest
• Four Jacks And A Jill
• Freedoms Children
• The Giants
• Les Goode
• Carike Keuzenkamp
• Bill Kimber and the Couriers
• Nol Klinkhamer
• Quentin E Klopjaeger
• Johnny Kongos and The G-Men
• The Kynd
• Julian Laxton
• Richard Laws (The A-Cads)
• Dickie Loader and the Blue Jeans
• Mercia Love
• Ramsay MacKay
• Rupert Mellor
• Mickie Most
• Omega Limited
• Gary Player
• Danny Rivers and the Savages
• The Sandpipers
• The Settlers
• The Shangaans
• John E Sharp and the Squires
• The Silhouettes
• The Ronnie Singer Sound
• Sounds Of Brass
• The Square Set
• Hank Squires
• The Staccatos
• The Upsetters
• Archie van der Ploeg
• Peter Vee
• The Zombies
  
  International Artists
  
  
• Dino, Desi & Billy
• The Tremeloes
• The Ventures

What about...??
If your favourite South African artist isn't listed here, please send me all the relevant information you have and I will update when I get a chance.

SA Rock Files
This website forms part of the South African Rock Files, the online archive for the history of South African rock music. Use the tabs on the right to take you to the different sections of the Rock Files. All contributions and comments are most welcome. Please contact Brian Currin.

All the quotes from the book The History Of Contemporary Music Of South Africa by Garth Chilvers and Tom Jasiukowicz (1994, TOGA Publishing) that appear on this website are reprinted here with the kind permission of the authors.

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