Australian singles charts:
Wallpaper Roses entered the Kent charts on 17 September 1966 and peaked at #24.
Album:
The song is on Great Scott! – It’s Sandy which entered the Kent album charts on 17 December 1966 and peaked at #4.
Songwriters:
Harold Spina, Don Robertson
Record label of Australian release:
ATA
Sandy Scott performing Wallpaper Roses on the ABC television program Be Our Guest, August 1966:
BONUS SONG BELOW – Wallpaper Roses by Dean Martin
Wikipedia:
When Keith Gilchrist started singing with local bands, his neighbour, Sydney disc jockey Bob Rogers suggested he change his name to Sandy Scott. After appearing on television shows like Six O’Clock Rock and The Johnny O’Keefe Show, Scott signed a ten-year deal to appear exclusively on Bandstand. Signing with CBS Records in 1963, Scott released three singles before signing with the Jacobsen family’s ATA Records. Scott would go on to appear in cabaret, musical theatre and television. He married his manager, Carolyn Jacobsen, the sister of singer Col Joye.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Scott_(singer)
Lyrics:
I’m counting wallpaper roses all around the room
Wallpaper roses painted with gloom
I’ve been so heartsick and lonely watching the door
Crying my heart out pacing the floor
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BONUS SONG
Wallpaper Roses by Dean Martin entered the Kent charts in Australia, as a double-A side single with In the Misty Moonlight, on 16 December 1967 and peaked at #25.
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