Single:
Flowers in the Rain entered the Australian singles chart* on 7 October 1967 and peaked at #8. The song was #55 on the Top 100 of 1967.
Songwriter:
Roy Wood
Producer:
Denny Cordell
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.
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:
Written by Roy Wood, Flowers in the Rain is about the joys of watching your garden grow. It’s a magical garden though, as the flowers and trees start talking back to the singer. Wood had written a book of fairy stories when he was in school, and when he started writing songs for The Move, that book provided many of his lyrics.
Members of The Move formed the Electric Light Orchestra in 1971.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-move/flowers-in-the-rain
Lyrics:
Woke up one morning half asleep
With all my blankets in a heap
And yellow roses scattered all around
The time was still approaching four
I couldn’t stand it any more
Saw marigolds upon my eider down
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
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Electric Light Orchestra: Livin’ Thing
Electric Light Orchestra: Telephone Line
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