+ scroll down for Reflections of My Life and Life is Getting Better by Flake
Australian singles chart:
This Wheel’s on Fire entered the Kent charts on 15 June 1970 and peaked at #21.
Album:
This Wheel’s on Fire and the two other songs on this page are on Flake’s 1970 album How’s Your Mother.
Songwriters:
Bob Dylan, Rick Danko
Producer:
Martin Erdman
Record label of Australian release:
Du Monde
BONUS SONGS BELOW – scroll down for Reflections of My Life and Life is Getting Better, also from Flake’s How’s Your Mother album
Wikipedia:
Formed in 1968, Flake was named for the Small Faces’ album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake that was released in the same year.
The group entered the 1969 2UW Bands to Watch competition, beating out more than forty other groups. Flake evolved into a tight progressive rock unit, covering songs by the likes of Traffic, Spooky Tooth and Vanilla Fudge.
Flake’s presence on the singles charts coincided with the 1970 radio ban on British and major-label Australian records which lasted for six months.
Three charting singles came from their 1970 album How’s Your Mother, led by the powerful vocals of Sharon Sims, including Life is Getting Better, Reflections of My Life and a cover of Bob Dylan’s This Wheel’s on Fire.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_(band)
Lyrics:
If your mem′ry serves you well
We were goin’ to meet again and wait
So I′m goin’ to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your mem’ry serves you well
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BONUS SONGS
Reflections of My Life, written by Junior Campbell and Dean Ford, entered the Kent Australian singles chart on 4 January 1971 and peaked at #25.
Life is Getting Better, written by Harry Vanda and George Young, entered the Kent Australian singles chart on 3 May 1971 and peaked at #40
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