Thanks for posting this. I like the song; have for some time.
As it happens, one of my top 5 songs from the early 70s is this one by the obscure “Christie”, “Yellow River”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu5zyUnVzE
I have never fully discerned his obscurity; but I can lay some of it to lax marketing, and the lack of a band of his own. The few hit records he made were done with backup music by some of the Tremeloes (a really skilled band from the late 60s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbAw6cbu2s
However, The Tremeloes determined that the song was "too pop-oriented" for the direction they were headed in so Christie decided to record it for his own band and had much success with it.
Thanks for the video links by the way. The "Yellow River" video was nicely done.