"Hollywood Seven" is a song by Australian singer

Jon English Jonathan James English (26 March 1949 – 9 March 2016) was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with his parents in 1961. He was an early vocalist and rhythm guitarist for S ...

. The song was written by Gloria Sklerov and Harry Lloyd and produced by Rod Thomas, William Motzing. The song was the second single from English's third studio album, '' Hollywood Seven'' and became English's 3rd highest charting single, reaching No. 13 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1976; after "Words Are Not Enough", which reached No 6 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1978 and "Six Ribbons" credited to Jon English and Mario Millo, which reached No. 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1979. Gloria Sklerov recalls the writing of "Hollywood Seven": "On the way home on the freeway, I passed a motel called "Hollywood Eight" which intrigued me. I started to think about who might be checking in there. When I got together with Harry Lloyd, we discussed it and decided to change the name to "Hollywood Seven" because it 'sang' better. We then plotted the story and it all sort of came to be like it was meant to. We were thrilled when we heard Jon's record because they used some of the synth riffs we had used on the demo and his vocal was great... As a writer, I was very proud of Jon's version."

Track listing

; 7" Single *Side A "Hollywood Seven" - 3:58 *Side B "Sandcastles" - 3:06

Charts

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Cover versions

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- 1976 *

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- 1977 *

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- 1977 * Alexander Love - 1979 *

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- 1980 (translated to German) "Grossstadtlichter" * Alides Hidding - 1980 *

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- 2008 * Karsu - 2021

References

External links

Vicki Lawrence's version of this song with lyrics
Jon English songs 1976 songs 1976 singles Polydor Records singles {{1970s-rock-song-stub