Oceania (Goanna album)

Oceania
Studio album by Goanna
Released	April 1985
Label	Warner-Elektra-Atlantic (WEA)
Goanna chronology
Spirit of Place (1982) Oceania (1985) Spirit Returns (1998)
Singles from Oceania
"Common Ground" Released: November 1984 "Dangerous Dancing" Released: May 1985

Oceania is the second studio album by Australian folk rock band Goanna, released in April 1985. The album peaked at number 29 on the Australian Kent Music Report. ^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Oceania"	Shane Howard	Bill Payne	2:10
2.	"Common Ground"	Howard	Payne	4:19
3.	"Zanzibar"	Howard	Trevor Lucas Payne	4:05
4.	"Dangerous Dancing"	Howard	Payne Lucas	4:41
5.	"Every Passing Day"	Howard	Payne	6:33
6.	"Hideaway"	Howard Bill Payne	Payne	6:00
7.	"Utopia"	Howard	Payne	4:36
8.	"This Time Yr' Runnin"	Howard	Payne Lucas	3:57
9.	"Some Kinda Magic"	Howard	Payne	4:56
10.	"Jinny"	Howard	Payne	4:25

Goanna

• Roslyn Bygrave  – synthesiser, keyboards, backing vocals
• Peter Coughlan – bass guitar
• Marcia Howard  – backing vocals, synthesiser, lead vocals (track 4)
• Shane Howard  – guitar, synthesiser, lead vocals (except track 4)
• Robert Ross – percussion, drums

Additional musicians

• Joe Creighton – bass guitar (tracks 4, 9)
• Venetta Fields  – backing vocals (tracks 4, 9)
• Ross Hannaford  – electric guitar (track 4, 5, 8, 9)
• Mal Logan – synth solo (track 8)
• Ian Morrison – backing vocals (tracks 2, 5)
• Alex Pertout – percussion
• Bill Payne  – keyboards
• David Platchon – drums (track 6)
• Eddie Rayner  – keyboards (track 3)
• Greg "Kenny" Sheehan – drums (tracks 5, 7, 10)
• Sam See  – electric and slide guitar (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10)
• Leland Sklar  – bass guitar (track 6)

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [2]	29

References

1. "Rock and a Hard Place". Australian Story . ABC Television. 26 June 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.