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Hollywood Seven (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Hollywood Seven'" is a song by Australian singer Jon English. The song was written by Gloria Sklerov and Harry Lloyd and produced by Rod Thomas, William Motzing. The song was the second single from English's third studio album, 'Hollywood Seven' and became English's 3rd highest charting single, reaching No. 13 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1976;page 103, Australian Chart Book, David Kent, 1993, after "Words Are Not Enough", which reached No 6 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1978 page 103, Australian Chart Book, David Kent, 1993, and "Six Ribbons" credited to Jon English and Mario Millo, which reached No. 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1979.page 103, Australian Chart Book, David Kent, 1993,
Gloria Sklerov recalls the writing of "Hollywood Seven": "On the way home on the freeway, I passed a motel called "Hollywood Eight" which intrigued me. I started to think about who might be checking in there. When I got together with Harry Lloyd, we discussed it and decided to change the name to "Hollywood Seven" because it 'sang' better. We then plotted the story and it all sort of came to be like it was meant to. We were thrilled when we heard Jon's record because they used some of the synth riffs we had used on the demo and his vocal was great... As a writer, I was very proud of Jon's version."
Track listing
; 7" Single
*Side A "Hollywood Seven" - 3:58
*Side B "Sandcastles" - 3:06
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Cover versions
* Dennis Waterman - 1976
* Jon English - 1976
* Anthony Newley - 1977
* Vicki Lawrence - 1977
* Alexander Love - 1979
* Juliane Werding - 1980 (translated to German) "Grossstadtlichter"
* Alides Hidding - 1980
* Tex Perkins - 2008
* Karsu - 2021
References
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