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Beating Around the Bush

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"Beating Around the Bush"
Single by Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons
from the album Don't Waste It
ReleasedJuly 1976
StudioT.C.S. Studios
GenrePop
Length3:00
LabelOz Records
Songwriter(s)Wayne Burt
Producer(s)Ross Wilson
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons singles chronology
"Run Rudolph Run"
(1975)
"Beating Around the Bush"
(1976)
"Security"
(1976)

For the AC/DC song of the same name, see Highway to Hell.

"Beating Around the Bush" is a pop song written by Wayne Burt and recorded by Australian blues, rock and R&B band Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons.[1] The song was released in July 1976 as the second single from the soundtrack to the 1976 film Oz. It was later included on Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons' debut studio album, Don't Waste It (1977).

The song peaked at number 73 on the Kent Music Report in Australia.

Track listing

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7" (OZ 001)

  • Side A – "Beating Around the Bush" - 3:00
  • Side B – "Glad I'm Living Here" - 4:07

Charts

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Chart (1976) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[2] 73

References

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  1. ^ "Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons – Beating Around The Bush on Discogs". Discogs. 1976.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 156. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.