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Single:
Words Are Not Enough entered the Australian singles chart* on 12 June 1978 and peaked at #6. The song was #54 on the Top 100 of 1978.
Album:
The song is on Words Are Not Enough which entered the Australian albums chart* on 11 September 1978 and peaked at #28.
Songwriters:
Garry Paige, Mark Punch
Producers:
Bruce Brown, Russell Dunlop
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS SONGS BELOW – Nights in Paradise, another single from Jon’s Words Are Not Enough album; and Words Are Not Enough by Helen Reddy
ABC:
Words Are Not Enough was written by Australian songwriters Garry Paige and Mark Punch, who were attached to Albert Productions during the 1970s. Among their other songs was Heading in the Right Direction, recorded by Renée Geyer.
Read more: www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-27/garry-paige-lyricist-1970s-most-enduring-songs/12703540
Wikipedia:
Words Are Not Enough is the title track and one of three singles released from the fifth studio album by Jon English, released in August 1978. Words Are Not Enough peaked at #6 on the Kent Music Report, becoming English’s first top ten single. His previous highest was Hollywood Seven, which reached #13.
Australian-American singer Helen Reddy also released a version in 1979 on her album Reddy.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_Are_Not_Enough_(album)
Lyrics:
Words are not enough
To show the way I feel about you
Though the times might get rough
I know that I, I will always want you
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BONUS
Another single from the Words Are Not Enough album by Jon English also charted. Nights in Paradise entered the Australian singles chart* on 2 October 1978 and peaked at #44 (songwriters Tommy Moeller and Chris Gilbey).
Words Are Not Enough was also released by Australian-American singer Helen Reddy on her 1979 album Reddy.
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