Australian singles chart:
Looking for an Echo entered the Kent Music Report on 16 August 1976 and peaked at #9. It was #69 on the Top 100 of 1976.
Album:
The song is on Take It Greasy which entered the Kent Music Report album chart on 24 May 1976 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Richard Reicheg
Producer:
Charles Fisher
Record label of Australian release:
Mushroom
Wikipedia:
Looking for an Echo is a doo-wop song written by Richard Reicheg. The original recorded version was by Kenny Vance in 1975.
Australian band Ol’ 55 released a version as the second and final single from their debut studio album Take It Greasy in 1976. The song peaked at number 9, becoming the band’s first top ten single. The other single from that album, On the Prowl, peaked at #14.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_an_Echo_(song)
Lyrics:
At Daydream Junior High School we used to harmonise
Me and Frankie and Jimmy and some Italian guy
We were singing oldies but they were newies then
And today when I play my old 45s I remember when
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