Australian singles chart:
Jackie Blue entered the Kent Music Report on 12 May 1975 and peaked at #27.
Album:
The song is on It’ll Shine When It Shines which entered the Kent Music Report album chart on 21 April 1975 and peaked at #73.
Songwriters:
Steve Cash, Larry Lee
Producers:
Glyn Johns, David Anderle
Record label of Australian release:
A&M
Wikipedia:
According to the book It Shined by band member Michael Granda, the band name was derived from “Cosmic Corn Cob & His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils”, a name that another band member, John Dillon, came up with after they were told the name they had previously been using, “Family Tree”, was already taken. The band shortened the name because none of the band members at the time wanted to be called “Cosmic Corn Cob”, and they did not want the name to sound similar to the Amazing Rhythm Aces.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ozark_Mountain_Daredevils
Lyrics:
Ooh, Jackie Blue
Lives her life from inside of her room
Hides a smile when she′s wearin’ a frown
Ooh, Jackie you′re not so down
You like your life in a free-form style
You’ll take an inch but you’d love a mile
There never seems to be quite enough
Floating around to fill your lovin′ cup
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