Australian singles chart:
Star Wars entered the Kent Music Report on 3 October 1977 and peaked at #3. The record was #17 on the Top 100 of 1977.
Album:
The song is on Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 24 October 1977 and peaked at #19.
Composer:
John Williams
Producers:
Tony Bongiovi, Domenico Monardo, Harold Wheeler
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor
BONUS TRACK BELOW – Star Wars (Main Title) by the London Symphony Orchestra also charted at the same time as Meco’s more popular version
Wikipedia:
Star Wars Theme, recorded by Meco, is taken from the album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk. It is one of two songs that became hits featuring music from the first Star Wars movie. The other is Star Wars (Main Title), which is original music from the movie soundtrack by John Williams. The record reached the US Top 10 concurrently with Meco’s more popular version. Meco again jousted with Williams a few months later, with both artists issuing competing versions of music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both reaching the US and Canadian Top 40, but with Williams’ version being more successful than Meco’s.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Theme
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BONUS TRACK
Star Wars (Main Title) by the London Symphony Orchestra entered the Kent Music Report on 28 November 1977 and peaked at #67.
Composer: John Williams. Conductor: John Williams. Producer: George Lucas.
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