(Jeff Barry - Andy Kim)
Australia
Single on Ramrod July 1969.
♫ Listen at YouTube, posted by Peter Kelaher with notes.
This was the last of eight singles released 1966-1969 by Sydney singer, real name Russell Delbridge, brother of Johnny Rebb (Donald Delbridge; see under Hey Sheriff, for example).
Backing is by The Atlantics, as on several Russ Kruger singles. Johnny Rebb also sang with The Atlantics: see I Put A Spell On You.
Atlantics guitarist Theo Penglis wrote the B-side, Money To Burn.
See also Russ Kruger – Look At My Baby (1967, #47 Sydney).
Selected sources:
1. David Johnston, The Music Goes Round My Head, (2010), pp.125-6.
2. Ian McFarlane, The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock & Pop (1999), pp. 351-2.
Suggestion from Terry Stacey.
(Jeff Barry - Andy Kim)
USA
Original version
#49 USA
November 1968 single on Jeff Barry’s label Steed by Andy Kim (Androwis or Andrew Youakim, b. 1946), singer-songwriter born and raised in Montreal but working successfully in the US from the late 60s.
Andy Kim’s first Top 10 hit, also on Steed, was Baby, I Love You (1969, #9 USA), a revival of The Ronettes’ original (1964, #24 USA), written by Jeff Barry with Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector.
His biggest hit was with his own composition Rock Me Gently (1974, #1 USA) on Capitol.
Andy Kim and Jeff Barry wrote TV cartoon group The Archies’ two biggest hits, Sugar Sugar (1969, #1 USA), and Jingle Jangle (1969, #10). Jeff Barry wrote Seventeen Ain’t Young (1969) another Archies song that was covered in Australia by Frankie Howson (1969, #35 Melbourne).
Further reading: Andy Kim biography by Mark Deming at All Music.
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