(Ernie Graham)
Australia
B-side on Spin (Australia) July 1969 and on Spin (NZ) October 1969.
Both sides of the single were covers of songs from the same Eire Apparent album.
See the classic A-side Mr Guy Fawkes (#7 Sydney #13 Brisbane) for more on Dave Miller Set, Eire Apparent and the source of both songs.
(Ernie Graham)
USA & UK
Original version
From album Sunrise, released in USA and UK on Buddha Records, produced by Jimi Hendrix with his participation on some tracks.
The songwriter is Belfast-born Eire Apparent guitarist and lead singer Ernie Graham (1946-2001). All tracks on the album were written by band members, alone or in collaboration. Ernie Graham wrote three himself along with two co-writes.
Graham wrote all the songs for his 1971 self-titled album. Personnel on the album included Nick Lowe, Billy Rankin, Brinsley Schwarz and Ian Gomm of the band Brinsley Schwarz, associates of Graham through touring and common management. [Listen: full album as YouTube Playlist]
After a number of bands and projects Ernie Graham eventually left the music business in the 1980s, his career a study in unfulfilled promise, as Bruce Eder puts it.
Essential reading: Ernie Graham biography by Bruce Eder at AllMusic.
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