Single:
Stay With Me Till Dawn entered the Australian singles chart* on 29 October 1979 and peaked at #8. It was #64 on the Top 100 of 1980.
Album:
The song is on Welcome to the Cruise which entered the Australian albums chart* on 10 December 1979 and peaked at #15.
Songwriters:
Judie Tzuke, Mike Paxman
Producer:
John Punter
Record label of Australian release:
Rocket
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Live on Countdown, ABC, in 1980:
Wikipedia:
Judie Tzuke is an English singer-songwriter, best known for her 1979 hit Stay with Me till Dawn. Before that though, she began collaborating with guitarist Mike Paxman in 1975, working as ‘Tzuke & Paxo’.
Tzuke’s career as a solo artist began in 1977, when she signed to Elton John’s label The Rocket Record Company. Stay with Me till Dawn, which was co-written with Paxman, is about a good friend of Judie’s with whom she often used to stay up until dawn chatting. It was her only single to chart in Australia.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judie_Tzuke
Lyrics:
Is this a game you’re playing?
I don’t understand what’s going on
I can’t see through your frown, first you’re up then you’re down
You’re keeping me from someone I want to know.
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