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"Chain Gang" is a 1955 song written by Sol Quasha and Herb Yakus. In 1956, a recording by American singer Bobby Scott reached number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , whilst a version by English singer Jimmy Young peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart .
The song became one of Cooke's most successful singles, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot R&B Sides chart. [5] [6] Overseas, "Chain Gang" charted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Cooke's first top-ten single there.
In 1952, he began touring with Louis Prima, and also toured and performed with Gene Krupa, Lester Young, and Tony Scott in the 1950s. [4] In 1956 he hit the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with the song "Chain Gang", peaking at number 13. [9] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. [10]
Michael Ochs Archives/GettyThe studio single version of “Chain Gang” was released July 26, 1960. It becomes Cooke’s biggest hit of a year that saw him push a lot of lushly orchestrated ...
Chain Gang (band), an experimental punk rock band from New York City "Chain Gang" (song), a 1960 song by Sam Cooke "Chain Gang" (1955 song), recorded by Bobby Scott and Jimmy Young "Chain Gang", a song by the Blue Hearts on the b-side of "Kiss Shite Hoshii" The Chain Gang, a Scottish charity supergroup who released the 1987 single "Makin' Tracks"
[6] [7] Meanwhile, White's album Harlem Blues: Josh White Trio (with Sidney Bechet and Wilson Myers, on the Blue Note label) produced the hit single "Careless Love", and his controversial Columbia Records album Joshua White & His Carolinians: Chain Gang, produced by John Hammond, was the first race record ever played on the white radio stations ...
The thirteen songs on Chain Gang of Love are written by Sune Rose Wagner with the exception of "That Great Love Sound", which Sune co-wrote with Gottehrer. Portions of this song were featured in a U.S. ad for Kmart. The album is notable in that all the songs were written in the key B-flat major.
For the remainder of the 1950s, Seeger continued to appear at camps and schools and to write songs and pro-labor union and anti-war editorials, which appeared in his column in the folk music magazine Sing Out! under the pen name of "Johnny Appleseed". The Weavers were temporarily silenced but returned to sing before a rapturous crowd of fans in ...