Single:
Turning Japanese entered the Australian singles chart* on 28 April 1980 and was a #1 hit. It was #8 on the Top 100 of 1980.
Album:
The song is on New Clear Days which entered the Australian albums chart* on 14 July 1980 and peaked at #24.
Songwriter:
David Fenton
Producer:
Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
Record label of Australian release:
United Artists
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Songwriter David Fenton explained, “Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn’t expect to.”
The English band suspected they would score a hit with Turning Japanese, even delaying its release in order to make it their second single, hoping to avoid becoming “one-hit wonders”. Nonetheless, they never matched the single’s success. In Australia, it spent two weeks at #1 during June 1980, and, coincidentally, the song was also a minor hit in Japan.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Japanese
Lyrics:
I′ve got your picture of me and you
You wrote, “I love you”, I wrote, “Me too”
I sit there staring and there’s nothing else to do
Oh, it′s in color, your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel and soft as clouds
I often kiss you when there’s no one else around
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