Covers

• The song was covered
  Cover version
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   by Billy "Crash" Craddock on his album Two Sides of "Crash" in 1972 and became a big country
  Country music
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   hit.
• A cover version by Jimmy Osmond
  Jimmy Osmond
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   reached # 11 on the UK singles chart in 1974.
• Former Beatles drummer, Pete Best
  Pete Best
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   recorded a version in the 1960s
  1960s
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   with his group, The Pete Best Four.
• Between 1972 and 1974, this song was covered by Singapore
  Singapore
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  -based female singer Ervinna, backing music by The Charlie & His Boys, on her LP album Golden Hits Of 20th Century Vol. 4 with the local White Cloud Record.
• In Swedish
  Swedish language
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  , three lyric versions exist, "Mina kärleksbrev dom vill jag ha igen" ("My love letters, I want them again") written by Åke Gerhard and released in 1961 as recorded by Lill-Babs
  Lill-Babs
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  , "Min lägenhet den vill jag ha igen" ("My flat, I want it again") written by Einar Svensson
  Einar Svensson
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   and released as recorded by Thorleifs on the 1974 album "En dag i juni" and "Två ska man va'" ("Two shall you be"), written by Christer Lundh and released as recorded by Lotta Engberg
  Lotta Engberg
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   on the 1988 album "100%".
• The Song covered by Japanese band Tokyo Incidents in band's 2004-2005 live tour Dynamite!.

Trivia

• The song was used by the Red Cross for a door-knocking donation awareness campaign on TV in Australia the 1980s. It had been a number one hit for him there in 1961.

Eddie Hodges

Billy "Crash" Craddock