Single:
Down Among the Dead Men entered the Australian singles chart* on 24 July 1978 and peaked at #4. The song was #40 on the Top 100 of 1978.
Album:
The song is on Flash and the Pan which entered the Australian albums chart* on 8 January 1979 and peaked at #94.
Songwriters:
Harry Vanda, George Young
Producers:
Harry Vanda, George Young
Record label of Australian release:
Albert Productions
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Flash and the Pan was an Australian new wave musical group (essentially an ongoing studio project) formed in 1976 by Harry Vanda and George Young, both former members of the Easybeats; they were a production and songwriting team known as Vanda & Young. The group’s first chart success was their 1976 debut single, Hey, St. Peter, which reached #5 in the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. The next single, Down Among the Dead Men, about the sinking of the Titanic, peaked at #4 in Australia in 1978; it was re-titled as And the Band Played On for international release.
Both songs were on their eponymous debut album which followed in December 1978.
Read more:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_and_the_Pan
Lyrics:
It was night
A starry moonless sight
Out in the mid Atlantic
There sailed a ship of light
She was big, this ship of luxury
Everything was peaceful
No safer place to be
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