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Cool Bananas

1982 studio album by DD Smash

Cool Bananas is the first album by the New Zealand band DD Smash led by Dave Dobbyn, released in 1982. It entered the charts at number 1, purely on tour exposure.[1]

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In 2015, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the New Zealand Music Charts, Recorded Music NZ honoured Cool Bananas as being the first album by a New Zealand artist to debut at No.1 on the album chart.[2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Dave Dobbyn

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Awards

The album won Best Album at the 1982 New Zealand Music Awards. DD Smash won the same award the following year with their follow up live album, Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes. The band also won top group of the year, and Dobbyn won Most Promising Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist.

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Charts

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References

  1. [1]
    "Dave Dobbyn: Homegrown". Documentary. NZ On Screen. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. [2]
    "40 years of chart-topping music". Stuff. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
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    "NZMAs". nzmusicawards.co.nz. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  4. [4]
    "Charts.nz – DD Smash – Cool Bananas". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Top Selling Albums of 1982 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand. Retrieved 1 February 2022.


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