Talk:All Kinds of Everything

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I have added a citation request to the statement that this song was actually written by Phil Coulter and Bill Martin then credited to Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith. This would be clear case of cheating and, as such, it seems to me this should be supported, i.e. it should be clear which of the sources this information comes from. Steve James (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If the statement is true it would explain why Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith never (?) published another song. And when she recorded the rush-released album of the same name in just one weekend, when the single was at #1 in the UK, they took longer than necessary due to re-recording the single to sound like the original! Phil Coulter was brought in just to arrange that one song. Her 1990 Deram Records compilation CD, also of the same name, mentions this in the blurb and writer John Tracy concluded: "For reasons now unclear, the original was not adopted." Also on 4 April 1970, the music newspaper Disc wrote in a front page article on DANA, that "Bill Martin ... whose company publishes Dana's song All Kinds of Everything...". But none of this proves anything. Therefore Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith wrote All Kinds of Everything!

I'm glad I put a question mark after "never" in the above reply. According to irishrock.org, Derry Lindsay wrote two songs for The Creatures, a Dublin beat group signed to Columbia Records in 1965-1967. One of them, Turn Out the Lights, reached #8 in Ireland in 1966. Therefore Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith wrote All Kinds of Everything!