Bachelor Girl are an Australian pop duo, formed in 1992 by Tania Doko as vocalist and James Roche as musician, producer and arranger.
Their 1998 debut single, "Buses and Trains", was a top-10 hit in Australia and New Zealand; it peaked in the top 30 in Sweden and charted in the UK.
[1] Bachelor Girl formed in December 1992 when songwriter and record producer, James Roche, met vocalist Tania Doko.
[2][3] Roche had previously worked, on keyboards or producing, with Tommy Emmanuel, John Farnham and Jack Jones (aka Irwin Thomas).
[2] Roche was crafting a demonstration tape of a song he had written for an Australian girl group, Girlfriend, and when the original singer cancelled, he recruited Doko.
In December 1997, Bachelor Girl signed with Gotham Records, distributed by BMG, after being rejected by Sony.
[9] In April 2011, a compilation album, Loved & Lost: The Best of Bachelor Girl, was released by Sony Music Australia.
[10][11] In August 2011, the previously unreleased third album was released digitally, titled Beautifully Wrong – The Lost Songs.
Roche said, "I had a fantastic time; the context there of musical creation and endeavour is inspiring and energising.