Australian singles chart:
Tokyo Joe entered the Kent Music Report on 23 May 1977 and peaked at #30.
Album:
The song is on In Your Mind which entered the Kent Music Report album chart on 21 march 1977 and peaked at #2.
Songwriter:
Bryan Ferry
Producers:
Bryan Ferry, Steve Nye
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor
Wikipedia:
Tokyo Joe is about Ferry’s fascination with cinema. It celebrates ‘femme-fatale’, inspired by the song Shanghai Lil sung by James Cagney in the Hollywood musical Shanghai Express released in 1932.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Joe_(Bryan_Ferry_song)
Lyrics:
My girl Friday she no square
She like lotus blossom in her hair
Be-bop records and something new
Sometimes borrowed but she’s never blue
Oh no, not Tokyo Joe
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