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Australian singles chart:
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) entered the Kent Music Report on 21 April 1975 and peaked at #17. The song was #95 on the Top 100 of 1975.
Album:
The song is on The Best Years of Our Lives which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 9 June 1975 and peaked at #62.
Songwriter:
Steve Harley
Producer:
Steve Harley, Alan Parsons
Record label of Australian release:
EMI
Steve Harley peforming the song on RocKwiz, broadcast on SBS Television on 14 July 2012:
Bonus track below – Sebastian by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
Wikipedia:
The song was the first single to be released under the name “Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel”, as opposed to simply “Cockney Rebel”. In July 1974, the original Cockney Rebel disbanded, and Harley then assembled a new line-up later in the year. Make Me Smile described Harley’s feelings on the band’s split.
Read more – the details of the split and the song’s meaning are here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Me_Smile_(Come_Up_and_See_Me)
This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
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BONUS TRACK
Sebastian, the debut single by Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harley. Written by Harley and produced by Neil Harrison, it was released in 1973 from their album The Human Menagerie. Neither the song nor album charted in Australia.
Album version:
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