There is a new album available from David Scobie called Zim Ads, it features over 95 Zimbabwean adverts from the 1980’s, 90’s & 2000’s that are now available on CD or as a download for the first time. If like me you grew up watching ZBC, this should bring back loads of memories.

Tracks include:
1. Air Zim Up And Away
2. Barclays Happy
3. Bata All Walks
4. Bata Power
5. Bata Sandak
6. Bata Springsteen
7. Bata Toughees
8. Bata Xmas
9. Berger Paints
10. Beverley Beatles
11. Beverley Fly
12. Beverley Red
13. Beverley Starting Out
14. Blue Ribbon Chibataura
15. Bohlinger’s Rock
16. Bohlinger’s Sunset
17. Bondana
18. Cabs Living
19. Caprin
20. Carguard
21. Carling Black Label
22. Cascade
23. Castle Lager Choir
24. Chibuku Scud
25. Close Up Get Closer
26. Cloth For Africa
27. Coffee Time
28. Coke Rap
29. Coke Summersplash
30. Colgate Blue Gel
31. Colgate Smile
32. Crispies
33. Dairibord Dawn Breaking
34. Dairibord Fruit Drinks
35. Dandy Gum
36. Dettol
37. DHL
38. Disprin
39. Dreaming Of Zimbabwe
40. Dunlop Car
41. Econet Buddy Prepay
42. Elastoplast
43. Enbee Schoolwear
44. Energade
45. Fantasy Soap
46. Founders Target
47. G & D Shoes
48. Green Valley Sauce
49. Green Valley Time
50. Heinz Beans
51. Heinz Ketchup Pop
52. Heinz Ketchup Unplugged
53. Hollywood Gum
54. Image Soap
55. Ingrams Camphor Cream
56. J & J OB
57. J & J Showertime
58. Kiddybank
59. Lemon Twist
60. Madison
61. Mashco
62. Mashonaland Turf Club
63. Mazoe Syrups
64. Mosi Beer
65. Net One Makadi
66. Northstar Hi Cut
67. Nyore Nyore
68. Olivine
69. Pearlenta
70. Pixos Chips
71. Puzey And Payne
72. Quench Drinks
73. QV Pharmacy
74. Rainbow Hotels
75. Ripe And Ready Drinks
76. Rixi Hyundai
77. Royco Home To Mum
78. Rubber And Hose
79. Sales House
80. Schweppes Peach
81. Schweppes Rap
82. Sheild Roll On
83. Smileys Chips
84. Soft Lace
85. Sparletta
86. Sparletta Ragga
87. Spinalong
88. Stoney Ginger Beer
89. Tacoola Drinks
90. TM Stores
91. Travelling Man
92. Trucool Drinks
93. Truworths Jazz
94. Vaseline The Way You Walk
95. Willards Peanut Butter
96. Wimpy Way
97. Woods Cough Syrup
98. Woodwards Gripe Water
99. Zimsun Hotels

To buy this and other music from David Scobie, including the 80’s hit Gypsey Girl check out his website: http://davidscobie.org

This video by David Scobie of his hit-single, “Gypsey Girl” from way back in 1980 brings back so many good memories, including that of watching Sounds on Saturday on ZBC.

This original video of the song, shows a very young David, aged just fifteen wondering around Harare. The single was released in October 1980 and it went to No.1 in Zimbabwe that November, staying there for the next four months. It was then released in South Africa in April 1981 and it bounced up and down the Springbok charts for nineteen weeks. Gypsey Girl eventually went on to go Gold in both countries and David became an over-night celebrity.

AWARD-WINNING Zimbabwean singer, David Scobie, has unveiled his long-awaited website, http://davidscobie.org/

He made the announcement via his Facebook profile recently. “The new website is finished and we hope to get some interest in the old music again,” says David. The multi-media website features David’s profile, discography, photos and singles released, among other great features.

Visitors to the site can preview and purchase his best selling 1981 album, “Cleaning Up!” for the first time in 28 years which features hit songs like Gypsey Girl, Taking The Easy Way Home, Maybe Life Don’t Care and On The Phone. The CD is also available for download. Other albums are available to preview and download. These include: Reborn (1983), Photograph (1984) and David Scobie Special Edition (1989). These albums will be re-released on CD and downloads by the end of 2009.

Brogue CDs are also available for purchase and download on the site. Brogue is David’s new project. He teamed up with Zimbabwean singer, Brigitte Rodrigues to form the duo producing Scottish/Celtic music. They have released three albums to date: Rhythm Of The Celts (2007) (which has already gained silver disc status in Scotland and is very close to gold) Girls And Strong Whisky (2008) and Popscots which has just been released (2009).

Visitors can register for a newsletter to keep up-to-date with news.Visitors to the site are struck by its ease of use, especially as it includes all content areas that are integral to David’s brand. It has been designed to be the premiere destination for all his fans.It is fresh, interactive, and of high quality competing with all other big artist websites. David aims to reach his growing fans through the site and other multimedia outlets available now. The highly interactive site has already garnered tremendous interest and responses from David’s fans. The Guestbook, especially, has already attracted a lot of attention.

Born in Dundee, Scotland, David was exposed to traditional Scottish folk music from the age of six. His parents took him to his first live concert held in Dundee where popular folk Duo “The Corries” blew David away. In 1973 the Scobie family moved to Harare Zimbabwe. From the age of ten, under the instruction of a close musical family friend, David began learning rudimentary chords on a guitar his parents had bought him. In 1980 David, aged fifteen had a hit-single in Southern Africa called “Gypsey Girl”. The single was released in October 1980 and it went to No.1 in Zimbabwe that November, staying there for the next four months. It was then released in South Africa in April 1981 and it bounced up and down the Springbok charts for nineteen weeks.

The single went Gold in both countries and David became an over-night celebrity. His next single “Taking The Easy Way Home” was recorded in April 1981 and by that June it had reached the Top Ten in both territories again. He went on to release four albums.

From 1983 to 2004 he endured a fruitful career in advertising jingles, producing and engineering. Over the years David repeatedly earned Zimbabwe Advertising Awards for his efforts. In 1998, he staged two musicals and two comedy theatre productions to full houses around the country.

David has teamed up with Brigitte Rodrigues producing Celtic music and call themselves Brogue and they are now based near Edinburgh in Scotland. http://www.broguemusic.com

Visit David’s website at: http://davidscobie.org/