Australian singles chart:
Blackberry Way entered the Australian singles chart* on 22 February 1969 and peaked at #14.
Songwriter:
Roy Wood
Producer:
Jimmy Miller
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The Move was a British rock band of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. They scored nine top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find any real success in the United States. The Move charted five times in Australia, the biggest of those songs being Flowers in the Rain which peaked at #8.
For most of their career the Move was led by guitarist, singer and songwriter Roy Wood. He wrote the group’s singles and sang lead vocals on many of them.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Move
Songfacts:
Blackberry Way was written by band frontman Roy Wood and has often been cited as an “answer song” to the Beatles’ Penny Lane. It has similarity with Penny Lane, only with much darker lyrics and a melancholy mood. The bridge is lifted from the intro of Harry Nilsson’s Good Old Desk. When it was put to him in an interview, Roy Wood admitted the influence of Penny Lane on this song. He said: “I suppose it could have been. We were all very influenced by what The Beatles were doing because they were the best songwriters around.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-move/blackberry-way
Lyrics:
Blackberry way
Absolutely pouring down with rain
It’s a terrible day
Up with the lark
Silly girl I don’t know what to say
She was running away
So now I’m standing on the corner
Lost in the things that I said
What am I supposed to do now
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