(Ray Davies)
Australia
Single on Trend, the first by Melbourne pop band formed 1964 whose highest charting singles were Everlasting Love (1968, #17 Australia) and Love Me Again (1969 #35), an original by Town Criers guitarist Sam Dunnin.
Melbourne or Adelaide? In 1968, founding vocalist Andy Agtoft was replaced by Barry Smith from Adelaide. This raised the band’s profile in Adelaide, but it may also have led some fans to the mistaken belief that the band itself was from Adelaide. It’s also possible there has been some confusion with The London Criers, a well-known late-60s Adelaide showband.
Thanks to David Walker for Melbourne-Adelaide clarification.
Suggestion from Terry Stacey.
(Ray Davies)
UK
Original version
On The Kinks’ third album The Kink Kontroversy, November 1965. At this time The Kinks were in the middle of a run of UK chart successes that went 1964-67, with eleven original Top 10 records, eight of them in the Top 5 including three #1s and two #2s. And there were still two more Top 5 tracks yet to come in 1970.
(Ray Davies)
UK
Later version
Single on Pye January 1966 by British band from Altrincham, Cheshire with one charting single, We’ll Sing In The Sunshine (1964, #47 UK), a cover of the Gale Garnett hit. Originally known as The Heartbeats then as Barry Langtree & The Lancastrians before simplifying their name.
Further reading: The Wikipedia article covers the essentials with some interesting details..
(Bill Withers)
USA
Red herring
Similar title but not the same song as ‘The World Keeps Going Round’ by The
Town Criers.
On Sussex album Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall. by chart-topping, Grammy award winning singer-songwriter, a soul-R&B baritone who had an initial run of three successive hits with Ain’t No Sunshine (1971, #3 USA), Lean On Me (1972, #1) and Use Me (1972, #2).
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