Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #147: ” Which Way You Goin’ Billy?”- The Poppy Family featuring Susan Jacks. The top debuting single the week of March 28. 1970.
- Single: ” Which Way You Goin’ Billy?- The Poppy Family featuring Susan Jacks
- Record Company- London
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Terry Jacks
- Time: 3:25
- B-side:” Endless Sleep”
- Album- Which Way You Goin’ Billy?
- Grade: C+
- Peaked at #2 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.
A Pop band from Canada- featuring the husband and wife team of Susan and Terry Jacks. The group would break up when the couple got divorced in 1973- and of course the name Terry Jacks has to ring a bell- “Seasons In The Sun”- one of the worst songs ever- it infected the world and went to #1 everywhere in 1974. Back to The Poppy Family- they had 5 Hot 100 singles in 1970-71- two of which made the Top 40. For a single which reached #2 on the charts- I am not sure I have ever heard this song before.
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I remember this one. She has a pretty voice but, boy is this song depressing.
Wow, Jacks really enjoyed writing sad songs didn’t he? And I confess, I like both songs.
My sister would play “Season’s In The Sun” over and over and cry… Last year I ran across the album for $1 and had to get it for her.
I remember this song, as it was played a lot on San Francisco radio stations. I liked it well enough.
It definitely has the “Jacks Factor.”
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