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Which Way You Goin' Billy
There are two articles for Canadian band The Poppy Family: *''Which Way You Goin' Billy? (album)'' *"Which Way You Goin' Billy? (song) "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" was a global, multi-million-selling hit single from the Canadian band the Poppy Family. The single, first released in 1969, was from the album of the same name and was a chart-topping hit in Canada and Ireland. It was ..." The Poppy Family albums The Poppy Family songs {{disambig ...
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Which Way You Goin' Billy? (song)
"Which Way You Goin' Billy?" was a global, multi-million-selling hit single from the Canadian band the Poppy Family. The single, first released in 1969, was from the album of the same name and was a chart-topping hit in Canada and Ireland. It was also a significant hit in other parts of the world, reaching #2 on both the U.S. Cash Box and Billboard pop charts. The song was written by Terry Jacks and the lead vocal is performed by his wife Susan Jacks. The singer asks her husband Billy where he's going, knowing that he is leaving her. She pledges she'll still love him and stay his wife. The single's B-side is a cover of Jody Reynolds' 1958 hit "Endless Sleep" and is sung by Terry Jacks. Chart performance In the group's native Canada, the single hit #1 on the CANCON singles chart dated 25 October 1969. It ranked as one of the ten biggest singles of the year (at #9) on the Canadian 'List of Biggest Singles of 1969' chart. In Billboard's ranking of the Top Hits of 1970, it was liste ...
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The Poppy Family
The Poppy Family was a Canadian psychedelic pop group based in Vancouver. They had a number of international hit records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Career Seventeen-year-old Susan Pesklevits met Terry Jacks in the mid-1960s when he appeared as a guest on the national teen TV show ''Music Hop'' where she was a regular performer. She later called Jacks to accompany her on rhythm guitar for one of her live appearances. Eventually, although she continued to do solo shows on television, with the addition of Craig McCaw on lead guitar, Susan decided that all her live performances would be as part of her newly formed trio. The name Poppy Family was chosen when Susan, Terry and Craig were searching for a new name and, in a dictionary, came across those two words, defined as "varied species of flowering plant, etc.", and felt it applied to them. Susan and Terry were married in 1967 and Susan Pesklevits became Susan Jacks. Craig McCaw later introduced Satwant Singh on tabla dru ...
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Which Way You Goin' Billy? (album)
''Which Way You Goin' Billy?'', released in 1969, was the first album from Vancouver, British Columbia band The Poppy Family. They scored their biggest hit with title track, " Which Way You Goin' Billy?", which went to #1 in both Canada and Ireland and #2 on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and the Cash Box Top 100 in the US in mid 1970. The album has been reissued on CD with the second album included as bonus tracks, however the original vinyl remains rare and collectable. Their songs "What Can The Matter Be?" and "Of Cities and Escapes" were prominently sampled in the songs "Things You Can Do" and "Madness" by Hip-Hop group Deltron 3030 on their self titled debut album respectively. Track listing Words and music by Terry Jacks. Side 1 # "That's Where I Went Wrong" – 2:28 # "Free From the City" – 2:15 # "Beyond the Clouds" – 2:30 # "A Good Thing Lost" – 2:00 # "You Took My Moonlight Away" – 2:40 # "There's No Blood in Bone" – 2:55 Side 2 # "Happy Island" †...
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The Poppy Family Albums
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