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Australian singles chart:
Goin’ Steady / Naughty Girls entered the Kent charts on 22 April 1961 and peaked at #13. The single was #86 on the Top 100 of 1961.
Songwriters:
Goin’ Steady – Faron Young
Naughty Girls – Col Joye, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
GOIN’ STEADY
NAUGHTY GIRLS
BONUS TRACK BELOW – Istanbul by The Joy Boys
History of Australian Music from 1960 until 2000:
Joining Col Joye and the Joy Boys on these two songs are The Bradley Sisters.
Pauline, Gaye and Suzanne Bradley were a female vocal trio who performed on Australian television in the early 1960s. They appeared on Six O’Clock Rock, Bandstand and most Australian television shows at the start of their career. They performed nationally with John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, The Allen Brothers and many other famous Aussies, and recorded with Col Joye. Like many artists of the time, the sisters entertained Australian troops in Vietnam in the late ’60s.
Read more: historyofaussiemusic.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-bradley-sisters.html
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BONUS TRACK
A record by Col Joye’s backing band, The Joy Boys, also made it into the Top 100 of 1961. The instrumental Istanbul entered the Kent charts on 12 November 1960 and peaked at #16. It was #95 on the Top 100 of 1961. The music was composed by Nat Simon.
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