Australian singles chart:
Armstrong entered the Kent singles chart on 1 March 1971 and peaked at #8. The song was #54 on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
Armstrong was released on Reg Lindsay’s 1970 album Hot Shot Country.
Songwriter:
John Stewart
Producer:
Pat Aulton
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
Wikipedia:
Reg Lindsay was an Australian country music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and radio and television personality who won three Golden Guitar Awards and wrote more than 500 songs in his 50-year music career. Lindsay recorded more than 65 albums and 250 singles. Reg made his first trip to Nashville in June 1968 where he recorded his first Nashville EP.
Lindsay’s most popular cross-over hit was a cover, Armstrong, written and originally performed by the American folk musician John Stewart as a tribute to Neil Armstrong’s historic lunar landing in 1969.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Lindsay
Also see: How in a song called Armstrong, Reg Lindsay talked about the Moon
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