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Feb 28, 2020 · Grindlay finally left The Underdogs for two years in Australia. There he began singing seven days a week at legendary Kings Cross club Whisky a Go-Go, alongside Kiwi keyboardist Claude Papesch. Back home again in the early 70s, Grindlay got his first taste of jingles.
Murray Grindlay first rose to prominence as the lead singer of somewhat rebellious 60s blues band The Underdogs. Since then he has written music for movies Sleeping Dogs, Once Were Warriors and Broken English, as well as hundreds of TV commercials, including the classics Dear John and the Great Crunchie Train Robbery .
Jul 21, 2015 · 21 Jul 2015. Having a shot glass chucked at his face after a gig in an Auckland bar in the mid-1970s changed Murray Grindlay’s life. In the days following, with stitches in his left cheek, he retired from the live music scene to concentrate on writing jingles.
Composer, musician and singer Murray Grindlay has been called the "jingles king" of New Zealand, having created some of the most beloved songs in Kiwi commercials — from the Crunchie Train Robbery ad to the iconic Mainland cheese orchestral score.
New Zealand musician Murray Grindlay, known to many as “Monte Video” from his 1982 international smash hit “Shoop-Shoop, Diddy-Wop, Cumma-Cumma, Wang-Dang” a...
Oct 5, 2014 · Murray Grindlay first rose to prominence as the lead singer in the 60s blues band The Underdogs. Since then he has written the music for a number of feature films, such as Sleeping Dogs, Once...
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After leaving the group, Murray headed for Australia, where he sang at the ‘Whisky a Go-Go’, a legendary nightclub in Sydney’s notorious King’s Cross. Two years later, he returned to New Zealand where he and his partner married and were soon expecting their first child.
