Dave Edmunds

DAVE EDMUNDS Topped The UK Charts With ‘I HEAR YOU KNOCKING’ 55 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

28 October 2025

Celebrated Welsh rocker DAVE EDMUNDS topped the UK singles charts
with I HEAR YOU KNOCKING (more than 30 million streams on Spotify)
55 years ago, on 28 October 1970.

The song was written in 1955 by American musician and band
leader Dave Bartholomew who died in 2019, aged 100!

Edmunds also topped the Irish
charts and peaked at #4 in the US.

Knock here.

Original

The now 81-year-old rocker experienced a major cardiac arrest before being
revived with CPR. According to his wife Cici Edmunds, he is currently stable and
recovering.

Hit Single ‘GIRLS TALK’ Written By ELVIS COSTELLO And Performed By DAVE EDMUNDS Released 40 Years Ago…

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Knockouts from the past…

25 May 2019

ELVIS COSTELLO gave “in a moment of drunken bravado‘ an early version of a song
he wrote, called GIRLS TALK, to DAVE EDMUNDS who reworked it and released it
as single today 40 years ago, on 25 May 1979. It became a hit in the UK peaking at
#4 on the Singles Chart.

Sometimes it looks rather easy how a song becomes, out of the blue, a commercial triumph. Costello himself issued his own version of the song as a B-side to his cover
of I Can’t Stand For Falling Down. Now, let the girls talk…

ELVIS COSTELLO: Facebook
DAVE EDMUNDS: Facebook