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My website Where Did They Get That Song? at poparchives.com.au traces the original versions of Australian pop records (50s, 60s, 70s).

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
poparchives SUBS 20th Apr 2022		78 RPM Josephine Bradley And Her Ballroom Orchestra - Always / The Cokey Cokey (You Put Your Left Arm Out)	Cokey Cokey was Jimmy Kennedy's variation on the name. It's also on records by Lou Preager (1945) FB.3123 and by Harry Leader's orchestra (1947) F. 2259.
poparchives SUBS 15th Dec 2019		78 RPM Red Perksey - (A Little Boy Called) Smiley / When The Lilac Blooms Again	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.
poparchives SUBS 16th Mar 2019		78 RPM Donald Peers - The Song Version Of The Harry Lime Theme / Medley	The first part of the title (printed above the rest) is "The Zither Melody". It can be made out on this label. Anton Karas wrote the theme (from the film "The Third Man", 1949), the words were written later by Jack Golden & Michael Carr.