Australian singles charts:
Kodachrome entered the Kent chart on 25 June 1973 and peaked at #31.
Album:
The song is on There Goes Rhymin’ Simon which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 11 June 1973 and peaked at #7.
Songwriter:
Paul Simon
Producers:
Paul Simon, Phil Ramone
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
Songfacts:
‘Kodachrome’ is a registered trademark of the Kodak company. It is a method of colour transparency, but more commonly known as a type of color film the company started marketing in 1935. Paul Simon was working on a song with the title Coming Home when the word ‘Kodachrome’ came to him. He had no idea what it meant, but knew it would make for a much more interesting song than Coming Home. The song became an appreciation of the things that colour our world, and a look at how our memories are framed to fit our worldviews.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/paul-simon/kodachrome
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