Miss Freelove '69
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"Miss Freelove '69" was a single by iconic Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 group Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd...

 which reached #19 on the ARIA
Australian Recording Industry Association
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 Singles Charts and #3 on the Billboard
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Modern Rock Tracks. It was released on RCA Records
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 in February, 1991; and was written by Dave Faulkner
Dave Faulkner (musician)
Dave Faulkner is an Australian rock musician who also performed as Dave Flick. Faulkner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist; he has performed with several bands, but is best known as a member of Hoodoo Gurus...

. B side "Stomp the Tumbarumba" was written by Johnny Devlin
Johnny Devlin
Johnny Devlin, born John Lockett Devlin , was an influential early New Zealand rock musician, sometimes called "New Zealand's answer to Elvis Presley"....

 and Joy Inman (performed by New Zealand
New Zealand
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ers Johnny Devlin
Johnny Devlin
Johnny Devlin, born John Lockett Devlin , was an influential early New Zealand rock musician, sometimes called "New Zealand's answer to Elvis Presley"....

 & the Devils in the early 1960s).

"... was written on the morning after the events described in the song, although I gave them some embellishment to provide a happy ending: the real police declined to join the party (at least they didn't shut it down). Miss Freelove herself was meant to be the incarnation of Bacchus but if she was anyone, she was me!" - Dave Faulkner.

7" Vinyl

  1. "Miss Freelove '69" (Dave Faulkner
    Dave Faulkner (musician)
    Dave Faulkner is an Australian rock musician who also performed as Dave Flick. Faulkner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist; he has performed with several bands, but is best known as a member of Hoodoo Gurus...

    ) — 4:02
  2. "Stomp the Tumbarumba" (Johnny Devlin, Joy Inman) — 3:05

CD Maxi-single

  1. "Miss Freelove '69" — 4:02
  2. "Stomp the Tumbarumba" — 3:05
  3. "Brainscan" (Faulkner) — 3:20

Personnel

Credited to:
  • Richard Grossman
    Richard Grossman (musician)
    Richard Grossman is an Australian rock musician who has played bass guitar for two iconic bands Divinyls and Hoodoo Gurus. Hoodoo Gurus iconic status on the Australian rock scene was acknowledged when they were inducted into the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame. For Grossman, this was his second Hall of Fame...

     — bass, backing vocals
  • Dave Faulkner
    Dave Faulkner (musician)
    Dave Faulkner is an Australian rock musician who also performed as Dave Flick. Faulkner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist; he has performed with several bands, but is best known as a member of Hoodoo Gurus...

     — lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Mark Kingsmill — drums, percussion
  • Brad Shepherd
    Brad Shepherd
    Brad Shepherd is an Australian rock musician. Shepherd is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and harmonica player; he has performed with several bands, especially the Hoodoo Gurus...

    — guitar, backing vocals, harmonica

  • Producer — Hoodoo Gurus
  • Engineer — Alan Thorne
  • Assistant Engineers — David Mackie, Robert Hodgson
  • Mixer — Ed Stasium (tracks 1 & 3), Paul Hamingson
  • Mastering — Greg Calbi
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