Australian singles charts:
The Loved One entered the Kent charts on 28 May 1966 and peaked at #11. The song was #66 on the Top 100 of 1966.
Album:
The song is on The Loved Ones’ Magic Box which entered the Kent album charts on 16 December 1967 and peaked at #15.
Songwriters:
Ian Clyne, Gerry Humphrys, Rob Lovett
Record label of Australian release:
In
Clip with 3AK Melbourne radio intro:
Wikipedia:
The Loved Ones were formed in Melbourne in 1965 by Gerry Humphrys, Ian Clyne and Kim Lynch who had previously been members of a youthful trad jazz band, The Red Onion Jazz Band. They signed to the In Records label (a subsidiary of W&G Records) early in 1966 and shot to national prominence scoring a major Australian hit with The Loved One.
They released an album in 1967 titled The Loved Ones’ Magic Box, a collection of their singles. The Loved Ones split later that year in October, just two years after they were formed. Magic Box is considered a classic recording and to this day in Australia it enjoys cult status and has reportedly never been out-of-print since it was released.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loved_One_(song)
Lyrics:
Yonder, she’s walking
She comes my way
Red dress on
Her long black hair
Talkin’ like
Walkin’ like
Walkin’ like
She comes to me
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