Rev Black & The Rockin’ Vicars - Watcha Gonna Do About It (1967)

(Doris Payne [Doris Troy] - Gregory Carroll - Rex Garvin)
 Australia

On the Vicars' first single, initially released as a B-side on independent label ZOT (also 1967), then as an A-side on Leedon (see the screenshot there with spelling Watcha). Writer credits are to Payne-Carroll, as on Doris Troy's original.

This is the Wollongong, NSW band that featured David Rossall, a recent immigrant from the UK who had been a member of Blackpool band, Bruce & The Spiders.

They should not be confused with the UK band from Blackpool called Rev Black and the Rockin' Vickers (aka The Vicars, also as Rocking). The Blackpool Vickers/Vicars are perhaps best remembered for I Go Ape (1964) and for the presence of Ian Willis/Kilmister, later known as Lemmy of Hawkwind and Motorhead.

Terry Stacey, at his Aussie Vicars page [archived], argued convincingly that it was "a myth" that Rossall had been with the British Vickers/Vicars: Dave was definitely never a member of the UK Rockin' Vickers although he apparently admired them a lot.

The Australian Vicars were also known as R Black and the Rockin' Vs out of some late 60s squeamishness about taking the mickey out of the clergy.

See also Down To The Last 500 (1969).

Reference: Terry Stacey's site devoted to the Australian Vicars, the definitive source on the band which included a detailed history and ground-breaking research into David Rossall's supposed connection with the UK Vicars. [Link is to archived site.]

Further reading: The original Manchesterbeat website generously included a page on the Australian Rockin' Vicars as well as the British band. [Links are to pages at Internet Archive. The original site is being redeveloped.]

Image: The Wollongong Vicars.