Australian singles charts:
An Old Fashioned Love Song entered the Kent charts on 27 December 1971 and peaked at #16.
Album:
The song is from Harmony which entered the Kent album charts on 28 February 1972 and peaked at #32.
Songwriter:
Paul Williams
Producer:
Richard Podolor
Record label of Australian release:
Probe
Wikipedia:
According to the Karen Carpenter biography Little Girl Blue by Randy L. Schmidt, songwriter Paul Williams originally intended An Old Fashioned Love Song for The Carpenters, who were in the middle of a string of hits with their own brand of “old fashioned love songs,” including two of Williams’ own compositions, We’ve Only Just Begun and Rainy Days and Mondays. Although this was the first song Williams had written specifically for the Carpenters, Richard Carpenter rejected it, and so Williams offered it to Three Dog Night.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Love_Song
Songfacts:
In a Songfacts interview with Paul Williams, he talked about this song’s inspiration. “I had a date one night with a young lady named Patti Dahlstrom,” he said. “She was a songwriter. We were going to go out and have dinner. And right before I left for the date I had gotten a phone call that I had a gold record. And I walked into her house, and I said, ‘Well, got a gold record for such-and-such, it just went gold. Kid did it again with another old fashioned love song.’ It just came out of me.
I went, ‘Wait a minute.’ I went over to her piano and I sat down, and it’s the quickest I ever had a song come out of me. And it sounds like it. It’s a really simple song, I wrote it in like 20 minutes. And it was a big hit.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/three-dog-night/an-old-fashioned-love-song
This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
Also on Bang a Gong by Three Dog Night:
Black and White
Joy to the World
Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
Shambala
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