Killer Joe (Jimmy Osmond album)

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Killer Joe
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 2, 1972
Genre Pop
Length22:14
Label MGM/Kolob
Producer Don Costa; "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" by Mike Curb, Perry Botkin Jr.
Jimmy Osmond chronology
Little Jimmy Osmond
(1972)
Killer Joe
(1972)
Little Arrows
(1975)

Killer Joe is the second album by "Little" Jimmy Osmond, released in 1972 on MGM Records.

Contents

The first single from this album, "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool", copyright Virgin Ear Music, reached #1 on the U.K. singles, making the then nine-year-old Osmond the youngest chart-topper in British charts history. [1] [2] It was produced by Mike Curb and Perry Botkin Jr.; unlike the rest of the album which was produced and arranged by Don Costa. Ed Caraeff was responsible for the front cover photography.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Killer Joe" (Bert Berns, Bob Elgin, Phil Medley) - 2:40
  2. "Little Girls are Fun" (Ron Myers) - 1:37
  3. "My Girl" (Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) [3] - 2:47
  4. "Mama'd Know What to Do" (Bruno Zorelli) - 4:00
  5. "Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear" (Kal Mann, Bernie Lowe) - 2:45

Side Two

  1. "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" (Christopher Kingsley) - 2:14
  2. "If My Dad Were President" (Bruno Zorelli) - 3:40
  3. "Tweedlee Dee" (Winfield Scott) - 3:41
  4. "Mother of Mine" (Bill Parkinson) - 3:21
  5. "Rubber Ball" (Gene Pitney, Aaron Schroeder) - 2:14

Charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [4] 64

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References

  1. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/little-jimmy-osmond-mn0000313912/biography
  2. "Record-Breakers and Trivia". everyHit.com. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  3. https://online.gema.de/werke/search.faces
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 226. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.