Elected (song)

"Elected"

Single cover
Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Billion Dollar Babies
B-side "Looney Tune"
Released September 1972
Recorded August 1972
Genre Heavy metal, rock, glam rock[1]
Length 4:05
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith
Producer(s) Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper singles chronology
"School's Out"
(1972)
"Elected"
(1972)
"Hello Hooray"
(1973)

"Elected" is a 1972 song by rock band Alice Cooper, the first Hot 100 hit on their 6th studio album Billion Dollar Babies. The single reached #26 during election week on the US charts, #4 on the UK charts and #3 in Austria. It inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song.

The song was a radical re-write of their 1969 song "Reflected" from the album Pretties for You.[2]

Chart positions

Year Country Position
1972 US 26[3]
1972 UK 4[4]
1972 Austria 3[5]
1972 Netherlands 5[6]
1972 Ireland 8[7]
1972 Germany 3[8]

Track listing

  1. "Elected" - 4:05
  2. "Luney Tune" - 3:36

Appearances on albums

Personnel

Cover versions

"(I Want To Be) Elected"
Single by Mr. Bean & Smear Campaign ft Bruce Dickinson
B-side (I Want To Be) Elected
Released April 1992
Format 7", CD single
Recorded Battery Studios, London, 1992
Genre Hard rock, Comedy rock
Length 4:28
Label London Records (for Comic Relief)
Writer(s) A. Cooper, D. Dunaway, G. Buxton, M. Bruce, N. Smith
Producer(s) Chris Tsangarides

In popular culture

References

  1. Donald A. Guarisco. "Elected - Alice Cooper | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  2. "Alice Cooper". Music Might. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
  3. "Alice Cooper - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles" Allmusic. Retrieved on August 10, 2009."
  4. Rice, Jo; Tim Rice; Paul Gambaccini; Mike Read (1979). The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (2nd ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 56. ISBN 0-900424-99-0.
  5. ""Austrian Singles Charts Search for Alice Cooper"" Austriancharts.at. Retrieved on August 10, 2009."
  6. ""Dutch Singles Charts Search for Alice Cooper"" dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved on August 11, 2009."
  7. ""Irish Singles Charts Search for Alice Cooper"" irishcharts.com. Retrieved on August 11, 2009."
  8. ""German Singles Charts Search for Alice Cooper"" musicline.de. Retrieved on August 11, 2009."

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