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Sirocco by Australian Crawl
Sirocco is an album by Australian Crawl, released in 1981. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Errol”, on 1 list with a best position of #52.
Sirocco, Australian Crawl's second album, came out on EMI in July 1981, a year after The Boys Light Up, and took its name from actor Errol Flynn's yacht. Worn out by David Briggs's studio style, the band switched to producer Peter Dawkins, played him twenty new songs, let him pick eleven, and cut them in Sydney that March and April.
The new weapon was Guy McDonough, drummer Bill McDonough's younger brother and now the sixth member on vocals and rhythm guitar. He wrote or co-wrote five of the songs, every single included, and sang lead on "Errol", a potted life story of Flynn, while James Reyne fronts the rest of this breezy, sun-bleached pop rock. It sat on top of the Australian chart for six weeks, finished 1981 as the best-charting album by any Australian act, and was the Crawl's first release in the US and Europe.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sirocco on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Errol | 1 | #52 | – | 2018 | |
| 2 | Things Don't Seem | 1 | #78 | – | 2018 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.