LIONEL ROSE
I Thank You
(Johnny Young)
Australia 1969
#14 Sydney #1 Melbourne #1 Brisbane #8 Adelaide #1 Perth

Original version

Single on Festival by aboriginal boxing champion from Gippsland in Victoria. Lionel Rose MBE (b. 1948)
, Australian of the Year 1968, famously won the world bantamweight championship over Japan's Fighting Harada in February 1968.

Written by Johnny Young: see The Real Thing, another Johnny Young composition, and Johnny Young's own recordings, for example Cara-Lyn.

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Red herring alert:
This is not the same song as Johnny O'Keefe's I Thank You (1962), written by Alicia Evelyn, writer of JO'K's I'm Counting On You.

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