Happy birthday Bruce Woodley, 68 today.
This was one of my father’s favourite songs. My brothers and I gave him a recording of it on a 45* for his birthday.
* For those of you too young to recognise that term: before digital downloads and CDs we had 45s (singles) and LPs (albums).
Singles had an A side and a B or flip side. The A side usually had the hit song but sometimes the song on the flip side became more popular than the A side one.
We played the records on record players which pre-dated stereos but were more modern than gramaphones.
My family also had a collection of 78s, given to us by an uncle, which were older and bigger versions of singles.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the numbers referred to revolutions per minute.
Homepaddock 
Tom Springfield appears on Homepaddock again this time as producer and lyricist of this song.
The song is however Stenka Razin with new words
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Thank you, Andrei, I enjoyed that.
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Me too. However, the wife walked in when I was playing Durhams version.. “Ah”, she said, “the beloved!”
She’s never really trusted me around a Seekers record.
JC
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