Road Trip Stage 4 - Still in Wellington - Sound Hound Rocky Douche

I did mention that there were two 70^th birthdays

The next connection

Once upon a time there was a young lad called Rocky Douche.

He flew to Fame as an engineer, working at Radio New Zealand. 

The engineer in fact, supporting Neville Chamberlain. aka Cham the Man

Rocky adopted the moniker, Sound Hound Rocky Douche, how glamorous was that?

For the first time "the engineer" had a profile.

They were very famous in Wellington

I found this photo courtesy of a blog called "the gilly" click here to link in

Brilliant. Obviously a competition around Elvis. There they are counting the entries

From there, he began working in a recording studio,  Radio and TV commercials were becoming big business.

One Dale Wrightson ,who was writing commercials, starting using Rocky for all of his work (as did loads of the Gun Agencies) and a great friendship was born

When Rocky branched out on his own, Dale suggested that he used Pete Burt to design his logo and Marmalade was born with the Fab Grinning Marmalade Cat

Once again another long living friendship was born with Rocky and his wife Jeannie'

Above; American Joyce Baker, who we met at Club Med with Peter and Glenys Burt in 1979
pictured with Rocky and Dale at Club Mac Waikane, hosted by Jeannie and Roger MacDonnell in the 80's
That;s another story of course
Joyce is a regular visitor to NZ  since she met us and she adds to the connection 

So 70^th Birthday number two.

We spent the morning with the previous night’s guests, Brunch in fact and we were a little late for Rocky’s party but we did some great catching up, I was a bit remiss with my camera and only managed a couple of photos.

Lovely shot of Rocky, Birthday Boy and Jeannie

plus Terry and Dale just sitting around.

A quiet night with Terry and Barbara and next morning we left Wellington.
Found this photo of our two 70 year olds... taken probably about 20 years ago 
They really haven't changed much.

Go North Young People

Napier Here we Come