#1: The More I See You by Peter Allen
City: Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Radio Station: CJIC
Peak Month: September 1976
Peak Position in Sault Set. Marie ~ #1
Peak Position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #108
YouTube: “The More I See You”
Lyrics: “The More I See You”
Peter Allen was born Peter Richard Woolnough in 1944, in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia. His father was a soldier in WWII and became a violent alcoholic on return from the war. Peter Allen’s performing career began when he was 11, playing the piano in the ladies’ lounge of the New England Hotel in Armidale. At the age of fourteen, Peter’s father committed suicide, which devastated the family. In 1959, he met Chris Bell and they formed a duo called The Allen Brothers. At this time Peter Woolnough took the surname ‘Allen’ as his stage name: Peter Allen. Within a year, they were based in Sydney performing on the Australian music television program Bandstand. In 1964, Mark Herron, the husband of Judy Garland, discovered The Allen Brothers while they were performing in Hong Kong. They became Judy Garland’s opening act when she toured. In 1964 he met Liza Minelli, and with Judy Garland’s encouragement, the couple married in 1967. But they got a divorce in 1970.