Australian singles charts:
Mama entered the Kent music charts on 11 June 1966 and peaked at #1. The song was #14 on the Top 100 of 1966.
Album:
The song is on Thomas’s 1966 album I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.
Songwriter:
Mark Charron
Producer:
Huey P. Meaux (Music Enterprises)
Record label of Australian release:
Scepter
Wikipedia:
Mama was released in 1966 as a single from the debut album by BJ Thomas called I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. It became a hit, reaching the top thirty in the US and topping the chart in Australia.
America’s Cash Box described it as a “haunting, easy-going praise-filled ode to all the mothers in the world.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_(B._J._Thomas_song)
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