(Phil Everly)
Australia
#6 Sydney #6 Melbourne #5 Brisbane #8 Adelaide #6 Perth
Double-sided hit with Kiss Me
Now.
Johnny Young: Western Australian singer, songwriter, radio announcer and TV compere, real name John De Jong. In later years he became best known for his long-running youth variety show Young Talent Time and the associated talent school, but his greatest claim to pop fame is for having written the Russell Morris classic The Real Thing.
(Phil Everly)
USA
Original version
#8 USA #4 UK #24 Sydney #5 Melbourne #27 Brisbane #5 Adelaide #3 Perth
Double-sided hit with Be-Bop-a-Lula in some places.
(Phil Everly)
USA
Later version
#2 USA #32 Brisbane #21 NZ
(Phil Everly)
South Africa
Later version
From the album Children Of The Rain (circa 1976?), also a single, by singer, actor and radio presenter born in Rhodesia (now
Zimbabwe). See his biography at the Rhodesian Music Website.
Thanks to Lourens Fourie.
Pop Archives
Australia's premier song history site since 2004
Website by Lyn Nuttall. © Lyn Nuttall 2004-2021. Chart positions courtesy of Gavin Ryan’s Australian Chart Books and Dean Scapolo’s Complete NZ Music Charts. Special thanks to Terry Stacey for information, corrections and suggestions. Thanks also to Tony Watson, Joop Jansen, More…