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JEL ELLIFF
What Are You Doing Sunday (Irwin Levine - Toni Wine) Australia 1971 #44 Adelaide # 30 Brisbane #23 Perth  Single on HMV (Australia) by Australian singer who had three charting singles in various cities. The other two were Going Nowhere (1971, #28 Adelaide: not the Los Bravos song) and Cotton Jenny (1971, #32 Brisbane). He also released Silvertown Girl (1972).In November 1971 Jel Elliff represented Australia with  Going Nowhere at Yamaha's World Popular Song Festival. He reached the 2nd Semi-final.Jel Elliff singles discography:
See Jeff Elliff singing Going Nowhere: YouTube link.1971 What Are You Doing Sunday/Willoughby HMV #EA-9560 1971 Going Nowhere/Pearly John HMV #EA-9625 1971 Cotton Jenny/Suzanne HMV #EA-9776 1972 Silvertown Girl/Morning Has Broken HMV #EA-9955 References: 1. Charts: Gavin Ryan's Australian chart books [available here]. 2. World Music Song Festival: Wikipedia entry and unofficial WMSF site. 3. Discography: (i) Australian EMI releases at GlobalDogProductions. One listing there spells Jel's name as Jel Ellif. (ii) Chris Spencer, Australian Rock Discography 1970-1979 [available here].
MARY MCCAFFREY
What Are You Doing Sunday (Irwin Levine - Toni Wine) USA 1971 Single on Metromedia, arranged and produced by Joe Brooks.
SILVER
What Are You Doing Sunday (Irwin Levine - Toni Wine) USA 1971 Single on Jubilee, arranged by Lou Toby, produced by Steve Metz & Charlie Conrad.
DAWN, FEATURING TONY ORLANDO
What Are You Doing Sunday (Irwin Levine - Toni Wine) USA 1970 Original version #39 USA #3 UK #23 Perth Chart positions are from 1971. Although What Are You Doing Sunday was on the 1970 album Candida, it wasn't released as a single until 1971. Co-charted in Perth with Jel Elliff's Australian cover. Tony Orlando had released a number of solo singles in the first half of the 60s, beginning with Halfway to Paradise (Goffin-King, 1961, #39 USA) and Bless You (Mann-Weil, 1961, #15). He later went into promotions and music publishing before returning to recording with Detroit session singers Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent. The group was known as Dawn for their first two hits, in 1970, Candida (#9 USA) and Knock Three Times (#1). By the time they had their second #1 hit, Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree in 1973, they were Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando. Their third and final USA #1, He Don't Love You (Like I Love You), in 1975, was by Tony Orlando And Dawn. Songwriter Toni Wine has a wide-ranging CV: for example, she wrote Groovy Kind Of Love with Carol Bayer-Sager, and she sang on The Archies' Sugar Sugar, apart from recording both solo and as a back-up singer for a number of big names. See ToniWine.com or her Wikipedia entry for credits and links. The other writer, Irwin Levine (c.1938-1997) is best remembered for writing Dawn's homecoming anthem Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree (1970, #1 USA) with Larry Brown, who was also Levine's collaborator on Dawn's hits Knock Three Times (1970, #1 USA) and Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose (1973, #3). See Irwin Levine's obituary from the New York Times. References: Pages linked above and All Music Guide entries on Dawn and Tony Orlando. Thanks to Mike Robbins and Terry Stacey. Corrections or comments? Contact the writer. |