Australian singles chart:
Costafine Town entered the Kent Music Report on 20 January 1975 and peaked at #16. It was the #93 song on the Top 100 of 1975.
Album:
The song is on The Place I Love which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 27 January 1975 and peaked at #69.
Songwriters:
Robert J. Purvis, William Elliott
Producer:
George Harrison
Record label of Australian release:
Dark Horse
Wikipedia:
Splinter was a two-man vocal group from South Shields, England, consisting of Bill Elliott and Bobby Purvis.
Their debut album The Place I Love was released on Dark Horse Records in September 1974. It was the first album released by the Dark Horse label, which was owned by George Harrison, who also produced the album. Recording sessions took place at Harrison’s Friar Park home studio in Oxfordshire and featured extensive musical contributions from Harrison, on guitar, keyboards and other instruments, as well as participants such as Gary Wright, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner and Alvin Lee.
Costafine Town, the first single from the album, was a Top 20 hit in the UK and Australia.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Place_I_Love
Lyrics:
A dirty old hole
In the side of the road
For the man who cleans the streets
Open pub doors
Where the working class goes at night
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