Their final single, "Just Couldn't Believe It" (1971) featured Marshall, its writer, on lead vocals. At the end of 1971 Charlie Wright joined on piano and organ. Their second album, Comes Autumn, appeared later that year via Warner. Unlike their previous charting hits, "Falling", was an original – written by their drummer, Beatson. The new line-up released another charting single, "Falling", which also peaked in the top 40. Also in that month they formed their own company, Collage, in equal share with their business manager Graham Farrell, "to produceĪnd promote its own records and related products." By March 1971 Jacques was replaced by Alan Marshall (ex-Hot Cottage) on guitar. Autumn issued their debut album, Song to Raymondo, in that year. It reached the top 40 in February and was co-credited to Allenby and Edison Lighthouse – at the same time "Yellow River" and "Looking Through the Eyes of a Beautiful Girl" were still in the top 40. They were also the backing band for Dave Allenby, a cabaret singer, who issued a cover version of UK group Edison Lighthouse's " She Works in a Woman's Way". " Looking Through the Eyes of a Beautiful Girl" (January 1971) was their next charting hit, which reached No. 24. After ten weeks on the Go-Set National Top 60, it peaked at No. 1 on 31 October 1970 and was co-credited to all four artists: Autumn, Jigsaw, Christie and Lee. For Autumn's recording the line-up was Glenn Beatson on drums, Rick Graham on bass guitar, Greg Jacques on organ, Steve McMurray on guitar and Tony Romeril on lead vocals. An English singer, Leapy Lee, also issued a cover version, as did Melbourne-based group Jigsaw. Īutumn's second single, " Yellow River" (August 1970), was a cover version of United Kingdom band Christie's single from April, which was not played on commercial radio due to the ban. They were signed to Chart Records during the 1970 radio ban, which had started in May as a "pay for play" dispute between major record labels and commercial radio stations. Their debut single, "Mr Henry's Lollipop Shoppe", was released early in the following year via EMI/Columbia. They released two albums, Song to Raymondo and Comes Autumn, both in 1971 before disbanding in the UK early in the following year.Īutumn were a pop music band, which formed in Sydney in 1969. Autumn had top 40 hits with " Looking Through the Eyes of a Beautiful Girl" (January 1971), " She Works in a Woman's Way" (February) and "Falling" (May). Their cover version of " Yellow River", released in August 1970, reached No. 1 on the Go-Set National Top 60 along with other versions of the same song recorded by United Kingdom band Christie, fellow Australian band Jigsaw, and English singer Leapy Lee. Autumn was an Australian pop music band formed in 1969 with Glenn Beatson on drums, Rick Graham on bass guitar, Greg Jacques on organ, Steve McMurray on guitar and Tony Romeril on lead vocals.
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