Australian singles charts:
Turn Up Your Radio entered the Kent charts on 27 April 1970 and peaked at #8. The song was #65 on the Top 100 of 1970.
Songwriters:
Doug Ford, Jim Keays
Producer:
Howard Gable
Record label of Australian release:
Columbia
Wikipedia:
Turn Up Your Radio was recorded at a late-night session and Jim Keays later recounted that he was so drunk when he recorded his vocals that he had to be held up to the microphone. The song was deliberately designed to be loud and offensive, and was intended as the final nail in the coffin to their ill-conceived teenybopper image.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masters_Apprentices
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