Australian Charts:
I Hear You Knocking entered the Kent charts on 11 January 1971 and peaked at #4. It was #25 on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
The song is on Rockpile which entered the Kent album charts on 4 September 1972 and peaked at #22.
Songwriter:
Dave Bartholomew
Producer:
Dave Edmunds
Record label of Australian release:
MAM
Wikipedia:
Dave Edmunds is a Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Although he is mainly associated with pub rock and new wave, having many hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s-style rock and roll and rockabilly.
Edmunds charted 8 hit times in Australia with songs including I Hear You Knocking (his first), The Promised Land and Girls Talk.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Edmunds
Lyrics:
You went away and left me long time ago
Now you’re knocking on my door
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in
I hear you knocking, go back where you been
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
Also by Dave Edmunds on Bang a Gong:
The Promised Land
Girls Talk
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