13 February 2023

Only in Melbourne: (update) Nick Lampe - Flower Garden (1970)

Nick Lampe - Flower Garden (Nick Lampe) 
USA 1970
Cotillion single (USA) #44066
Cotillion album It Happened Long Ago

Atlantic single (Australia) #3740
Australian charts: #16 Melbourne #52 Australia 
Chart positions from Gavin Ryan's Melbourne chart book and Grant Dawe's Australian Top 100 site.

2023 This was an obvious candidate for my Only in Melbourne series (about tracks that charted Top 40 in Melbourne but not in their countries of origin), but I'd already written about Nick Lampe and his song Flower Garden in detail here and here, so I didn't want to go over old ground.

When I first wrote about Nick in 2005 and 2006 it was hard to find audio of Flower Garden online. Now of course there are several YouTube posts with the audio of the song. 

Below is one of the current YouTube posts of the original 1970 track. Direct link: YouTube

You can also listen to it at Spotify.

The second YouTube video below plays a version that Nick recorded in more recent years and released in 2016. I know that he wasn't satisfied with the original release, so perhaps this later version gives some insight into how he sees the song. Direct link: YouTube



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