Single:
Wintersong entered the Australian singles chart* on 25 December 1972 and peaked at #53.
Album:
A live version of Wintersong is on Country Radio Live which entered the Australian albums chart* on 22 January 1973 and peaked at #31.
Songwriters:
Greg Quill, Kerryn Tolhurst
Producer:
John French
Record label of Australian release:
Infinity
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Greg Quill and Country Radio performing Wintersong live at Sunbury 1973:
Wikipedia:
With the classic line-up of Greg Quill, Kerryn Tolhurst, John A Bird, John Du Bois, Tony Bolton and Chris Blanchflower, Country Radio recorded their second and most successful single, Gypsy Queen, with producer John French, in Melbourne in April 1972.
The group’s follow-up single, Wintersong, appeared in December 1972. The song was also on a live-in-the-studio recording before an invited audience in October that year, which was released as their debut album, Country Radio Live.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Quill
Lyrics:
North winds rolling down my friends are leaving town
I know they’re waiting just for me
One more summer gone and one more wintersong
And one more time I’ve tried to leave
Maybe it’s the lonesome way you turn your head and smile
Each time the snow begins to fall
Maybe it’s the fact that you’re around me all the time
That keeps me going through it all
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