Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons- Hit And Run

Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons were an Australian band that featured singer/songwriter Joe Camilleri. The band was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and had several Australian chart hits during that time, including "Hit and Run", "Shape I'm In" and "All I Wanna Do". The Falcons dissolved in 1981 and the group's biggest Australian hit, 1982's "Taxi Mary", as well as the New Zealand top ten hit "Walk On By", were both credited simply to Jo Jo Zep. The late 1970s line up of Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons reunited in 2001, and released a new album in 2003. In late 1975 Ross Wilson (ex-Daddy Cool frontman), who was waiting out his Daddy Cool/Mighty Kong recording contract, had started producing other artists for a label he was involved in, Oz Records. He also decided to produce a version of Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph Run", as a one-off Christmas single for Mushroom Records. Since contractually he couldn't perform the vocals himself, Ross asked musician around town Joe Camilleri to sing and play on the record, and front it. Camilleri was born in Malta, and in Maltese the traditional nickname for Joseph is 'Zep', so the name put on the single was Jo Jo Zep and his Little Helpers. (extract from Wikipedia 2011)