JOHNNY YOUNG & KOMPANY
When Will I Be Loved
(Phil Everly)
Australia 1967
#6 Sydney #6 Melbourne #5 Brisbane #8 Adelaide #6 Perth

Double-sided hit with Kiss Me Now.

Johnny Young: Western Australian singer, songwriter, radio announcer and TV compere, real name John De Jong. In later years he became best known for his long-running youth variety show Young Talent Time and the associated talent school, but his greatest claim to pop fame is for having written the Russell Morris classic The Real Thing.

THE EVERLY BROTHERS
When Will I Be Loved
(Phil Everly)
USA 1960
Original version
#8 USA #4 UK #24 Sydney #5 Melbourne #27 Brisbane #5 Adelaide #3 Perth

Double-sided hit with Be-Bop-a-Lula in some places.

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Later versions:

LINDA RONSTADT
When Will I Be Loved
(Phil Everly)
USA 1975
Later version
#2 USA #32 Brisbane #21 NZ

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BRUCE MILLAR
When Will I Be Loved
(Phil Everly)
South Africa
Later version

From the album Children Of The Rain (circa 1976?), also a single, by singer, actor and radio presenter born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). See his biography at the Rhodesian Music Website.

Thanks to Lourens Fourie.

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