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Artist: Red Perksey Label:   Pacific Country: Australia Catalogue: PB-122 Date: 1956 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay This is an affiliate link for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Red Perksey	(A Little Boy Called) Smiley	Collins	Rate
B	Red Perksey	When The Lilac Blooms Again	Doeller, Potter, Mair	Rate

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Red Perksey And His Orchestra and Chorus, vocals by Ray Dickson.

This recording of 'Smiley', and also 'A Town Like Alice', made the top 10 in Australia in 1956 when released on vinyl 45s.
Technically i suppose that makes them one of the first all Australian (artist, label, and recording) chart successes.

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xiphophilos 15th Dec 2019		You are right, poparchives. Pacific PB-121, the previous record, is first advertised in the Melbourne Argus in September 1956. Red Perksey's first release on Pacific was in 1953.
poparchives SUBS 15th Dec 2019		Surely this couldn't be 1951? Perksey himself didn't arrive in Australia till 1951 and it took him a couple of years to kick off his career. Everything about this song points to 1956 and the tie-in with publicity for the first Smiley film (and its subsequent use in the second film in '58). Of course it's not impossible that Collins could've written it earlier in response to the Smiley novels of the 40s, but I'm not convinced. The Previous By Artist, "A Town Like Alice" PB-121 also screams 1956 and the film of that year. (Once again, an earlier novel, but even so...) Anyway, I'll eat my post if I'm wrong.

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