Keep on Singing
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"Keep on Singing" is a 1972 song composed by Danny Janssen and Bobby Hart. Recorded by Austin Roberts
Austin Roberts (singer)
Austin Roberts is an American singer and songwriter. His most successful recording was 1975's "Rocky"; a transatlantic Top 40 hit single.-Early years:...

 and released by Chelsea Records from the album Austin Roberts, the single reached #50 on the Billboard Hot 100
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. Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...

 recorded the song for her 1974 album Love Song For Jeffrey for which it served as lead single reaching #15 on the Hot 100 that May (Cash Box ranked "Keep on Singing" as high as #10). The third of Reddy's six consecutive Easy Listening
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 #1 hits (she'd have eight overall), "Keep on Singing" was also a hit in Australia that summer reaching #25.http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1974/1974.html

Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

 covered "Keep on Singing" for her 1974 This Time I Almost Made It
This Time I Almost Made It
This Time I Almost Made It is the fourth studio album released by American country singer, Barbara Mandrell, released in 1974.This would be Mandrell's last album with her record company, Columbia before the label dropped her. She would later switch to ABC/Dot and enjoy the most successful part of...

album, and the song appears on Aileen Quinn
Aileen Quinn
Aileen Marie Quinn is an American actress. She is best-known for having played the title role in the film Annie .-Biography:...

's 1982 album Bobby's Girl. A live version of "Keep on Singing" is featured on the 1976 Live in Japan album by Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart was an album released by the group of the same name, released in 1976. The group consisted of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Dolenz and Jones had been members of '60s pop group/band The Monkees while Boyce and Hart had written many of the groups...

. A Finnish rendering: "Anna Laulun Lohduttaa", was recorded by Ami Aspelund
Ami Aspelund
Ami Aspelund is a Finnish singer. She is the younger sister of singer Monica Aspelund.-Career:Ami Aspelund released her first single in 1973 called Apinamies....

for her 1974 Ami album.
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