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Music South Africa Top 20 Hit 1974 Ballad

Peter Vee's real name is Peter Paoliello
Producer, singer/songwriter and record industry executive from South Africa.
He was born in Johannesburg of that country.

Peter Vee started in the early 60's as a member of South African bands like The Invaders (his first band in 1962), The Four Dukes, Sons of She, The In Crowd, The Staccatos (2) and The Outlet with whom he had a No. 2 hit ("Working On A Good Thing") on the South African pop chart. His biggest solo hit is 1973's "The Tips Of My Fingers". In 1978 he collaborated with synthesizer player Costa Anadiotis and other musicians to form the disco studio group Buffalo specialized mostly on discofications of rock classics. In the late 90's he became MD of South African BMG Music Publishing.

This song was written by Jack (Willem) de Nijs, who's stage name was Jack Jersey (18 July 1941 – 26 May 1997). He was a Dutch singer, composer, arranger, lyricist and record producer of light music (popular music) who worked for national and international artists. He had his own production company, J.R. (Jeetzi-Rah) which means "Creation" / "Creational world" in Hebrew. He discovered artists such as André Moss, Nick MacKenzie and Frank & Mirella. During his life, Jack de Nijs and the artists he represented were good for selling more than twenty million records. This song was released as "I'm Calling" by Jack Jersey on his album, "In the still of the night - Expanded Edition" and was released in 1974.
To find out more about this singer/composer/writer, please go to his Wikipedia page at Jack Jersey - Wikipedia

There is a slight difference betwwen the lyrics of this song, as sung by Peter Vee in this video, and those of Jack Jersey. In his version of the song in his video, I have posted the lyrics as sung by Peter Vee in this video. This song was released as a 7 single by Peter Vee in South Africa in 1974. This song got to number 12 on the South African Top 20 in 1974, and charted for 6 weeks.

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