FORCED to RECORD Other People's Songs…Band Did 1 ORIGINAL in SECRET…Became a SMASH—Professor of Rock
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On today’s episode we’re going the Catchy ditty Fox on the Run by the Sweet
Singer Brian Connelly and drummer Mick Tucker recruited bass player Steve Priest to assemble The Sweat Shop in ’68, but just a few weeks before they released their debut record, they found out there was another band named The Sweat Shop, so they changed their name to The Sweet. After adding lead guitarist Andy Scott, The Sweet hooked up with hitmakers Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn and began one of the most successful 4 year run on the pop charts in UK history. Between ’71 and ’74, Chapman & Chinn penned all 11 of the British Top 40 hit singles for The Sweet, including their first hit “Funny Funny,” “Little Willy, “Blockbuster,” and “The Ballroom Blitz,” that were also big hits in the U.S.
Success should have been….sweet, for the quartet, but by ’74, they were tired of the perception that they were just puppets to the Chapman/ Chinn puppeteers. So, when an opportunity presented itself to change that stigma, the band took advantage and covertly re-recorded an album track and reconstructed it into one of their biggest hits. The transformed track was none other than “Fox on the Run.
At the beginning of the Rock Era in the 50s, through the 60’s, the most popular solo artists and groups were essentially the talent that performed material written by someone else. That’s one of the main reasons why acts like Buddy Holly & the Crickets, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles were so revered.. they created and performed...
All Comments (21)
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Poll: Who had the COOLEST BAND NAME in the Rock era?
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Fox on the Run and Love is like Oxygen were my two favorite songs by the Sweet and they still are thanks.🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁
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You don't realize how many songs Sweet recorded until you hear their playlist. They are definitely an underrated band and a great group of guys. RIP Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker, and Steve Priest
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Sweet was such a grossly underrated band. BALLROOM BLITZ is an all-time BANGER of a song
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Roller skating as a 13yr with Sweet blasting at the rink. Has it really been 50 years?
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Yes yes yes. The Sweet are vastly underrated. Desolation Boulevard is one of my all time favorite albums.
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Ballroom Blitz was a staple of our underground early punk scene. I saw Minor Threat in ‘82 or ‘83 in an abandoned building cover the song. Sweet songs were always playing at parties and covered by many underground bands in the 80’s. Good times…. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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"Love is like oxygen" is one of the most underrated classics of all time.
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In Germany, they're not forgotten. They were absolutely huge in the Seventies. Still love 'em.
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I love Sweet so much, they're one of my favorite bands. They should be appreciated more, especially Mick Tucker, he was an amazing drummer. Such a shame that their story was quite tragic and they never got the acclaim they deserved.
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I didn't realize until recently that Sweet had so many hits, and I knew them, too. They really do need more recognition.
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SO HAPPY YOU FEATURED THIS BAND!!! This is a PERFECT example of the great bands in our history that everyone seems to have forgotten, even though songs like “Ballroom Blitz” still get played on the radio. This episode shows the very reason why this channel is so important!! Thank you Adam, as always, for the priceless memories!!! ❤😊
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I was five years old and we had just moved from Papua New Guinea to Australia and the first time I had ever seen a TV was in a department store and it was playing Fox on the Run. I can still clearly picture this and the song has been a favorite ever since. I was lucky enough to see and chat with Andy and his Sweet band on my 27th birthday and he loved that story over a drink in Townsville Australia in 1995.
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Brian Connolly's son Brian Connolly Jr is touring the UK at the moment with other singers playing and singing his Dad's music plus other Glam Rock groups. He is keeping his Dad's group hits alive. I know they are in my home town this month. I'm too young to remember it the first time round being a small child in the early 70's but I love a lot of the music from my best friend who is 7 years older than me.
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The Grassroots, The Raspberries and Sweet.Three of my all time favorite underrated bands of all times
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I have never forgotten. They were the first band I consciously saw live. I was 11 and I was blown away.
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SWEET were my first musical heroes. Thank´s for putting the spotlight on them. They deserve it! <3
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Love is Like Oxygen... the favorite song of my 13 yr old self playing the Jukebox at Happy Joe's Pizza. Loved Glam in general but these guys were just on another level.
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You've done it Prof, now I have Foghorn Leghorn quotes in my head, the favorites were with Barnyard Dawg. “That dog’s as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal”.
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They need to be in the Rock Hall of Fame. Too bad there's only one member left.
