(Lucio Battisti - Jack Fishman)
Australia
#41 Sydney
The band's name is often spelt Toby Jug, even on the record's label, but the correct spelling seems to be Toby Jugg, perhaps after Dennis Wheatley's 1948 novel The Haunting of Toby Jugg.
Single on du Monde by Sydney band whose personnel included Garth Porter, later of Sherbet, who continues to write and produce in country music, notably with Lee Kernaghan and the Outback Spectacular show. Dennis Laughlin, the original vocalist in Sherbet, was also in Toby Jugg.
Suggestion and additional details from Terry Stacey.
(Lucio Battisti - Jack Fishman)
USA
Single on Epic May 1969. This seems to have been a US-only release by this chart-topping 60s British Invasion band: see Glad All Over.
References: 1. The DC5 Wikipedia entry has a credible and comprehensive discography. 2. Discography at the Dave Clark Five USA Page.
Version alert from Terry Stacey.
(Lucio Battisti - Jack Fishman)
UK
Original English language version
#1 UK* #21 Brisbane #18 Adelaide #5 NZ
*Reissued in UK February 1976, charted #34.
Single on Immediate January 1969.
The English adaptation is by Jack Fishman (1920-1997), political journalist, editor, author, publisher and songwriter. He wrote or co-wrote many successful songs, one of which, Ev’rywhere, won an Ivor Novello Most Popular Song award in 1956. He worked on films as a composer and musical director. His research and subsequent news story exposed the spy Kim Philby.
Amen Corner were a seven-piece band from Cardiff whose line-up included singer-guitarist Andy Fairweather-Low (b. 1948) and a brass section. They had six charting records in the UK 1967-69, including Bend Me Shape Me (#3 UK, 1968), also a hit in the USA by American Breed. They later morphed into Fairweather, without the brass.
Essential reading: 1. Jack Fishman obituary from The Guardian. 2. Andy Fairweather Low’s website.
(Lucio Battisti - Giulio Rapetti - Mary Boduin)
Belgium
Dutch-language version (Holiday Dreams) by Flemish pop star, born Christiane Bervoets, 1948. Her big hit was Eviva Espana (1971). See the Samantha page at Belgian Pop & Rock Archives.
Thanks to Joop Jansen.
(Lucio Battisti - Giulio Rapetti [as 'Mogol'])
Italy
Italian pop singer, aka Patty Pravo, born
Nicoletta Strambelli in Venice 1948. See entry at Wikipedia.it.
(Lucio Battisti - Giulio Rapetti [as 'Mogol'])
Italy
Original version
Single on Ricordi, June 1968 by singer-bassist Ambra Berelli (b. 1945) who used the stage name La Ragazza 77 (Girl 77) throughout her career.
Lyricist Giulio Rapetti [Mogol] also had a hand in the Italian originals of I (Who Have Nothing) (Ben E. King, Normie Rowe) and Help Yourself (Tom Jones).
The title means paradise of life: perhaps what English speakers might call heaven on earth?
Further reading: 1. Song history at The Originals. 2. Ambra Berelli at Italian Wikipedia.
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