Single:
The Pied Piper entered the Australian singles chart* on 30 April 1966 and peaked at #5. It was #31 on the Top 100 of 1966.
Album:
The song is on Crispian’s 1966 debut album Follow Me…
Songwriters:
Steve Duboff, Artie Kornfeld
Producer:
David Nicolson
Record label of Australian release:
Decca
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
The Pied Piper is the biggest of seven singles by British singer Crispian St Peters to chart in Australia. It followed the release of You Were On My Mind, his first single to chart in this country.
Songfacts:
Crispian St Peters was born Robin Peter Smith and worked at first for various small local bands. An EMI publicist picked him up for the Decca Records label, for whom he had moderate success for the rest of the 1960s.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/crispian-st-peters/the-pied-piper
Wikipedia:
The Pied Piper was written by the US songwriting and performing duo The Changin’ Times, consisting of Steve Duboff and Artie Kornfeld, who first recorded it in 1965.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pied_Piper_(song)
Lyrics:
You, with your masquerading, and you
Always contemplating what to do
In case heaven has found you
Can’t you see that it’s all around you
So follow me
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