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Word soon got out and Rabbitt was invited to headline the Johannesburg Music Festival. They were well rehearsed, played inspired, creating a sensation. Their performance was captured by a news film crew to be played on a newsreel at the movie theaters (yes kids this is how it was done in the ol’ days). Simultaneously a marketing team was developing consisting of Patric Van Blerk - who not only produced Rabbitt but was also a lyricist and AR for SATBEL records; and Robin Taylor - a Record Company executive who stuck his neck out for Rabbitt. Their strategizing worked as Rabbittmania spread across South Africa. Rabbitt photos were on the front page of newspapers, Rabbit posters were in the streets, and Rabbit fans - many, many fans - were everywhere. Rabbitt began to record their second album at newly bulit SATBEL Studios. One of their everyday problems was just to get into the studio due to the fact that it was constantly surrounded by a crowd of fans. “A Croak and a Grunt” took six weeks to complete. In 1976 this was considered an exorbitant amount of time to spend in the studio. It paid off as the album went platinum on release. A major tour of South Africa followed with sell-out concerts wherever they played.
