Money Honey (Bay City Rollers song)

"Money Honey"
Single by Bay City Rollers
from the album Rock n' Roll Love Letter
B-side "Maryanne"
Released February 1976
Format 7" Vinyl
Recorded 1975
Genre Hard rock, glam rock, power pop, pop rock
Length 3:17
Label Arista
Writer(s) Eric Faulkner, Stuart John Wood
Bay City Rollers singles chronology
"Saturday Night"
(1976)
"Money Honey"
(1976)
"Rock and Roll Love Letter"
(1976)

"Money Honey" is the title of a 1976 international hit single by the Bay City Rollers, taken from their album Rock n' Roll Love Letter. The power-pop recording was issued as the album's lead single in January 1976, reaching number nine on the US Hot 100 in Billboard magazine that March. "Money Honey" was the Bay City Rollers' second US Top 10 hit. It reached number seven on the Cash Box chart. The follow-up single was the album's title track, "Rock and Roll Love Letter" (US #28). In the UK, "Money Honey" was released in November 1975 and reached number three.[1]

Outside the US, "Money Honey" was yet a bigger hit, such as in Australia (#3) and in the UK (#3), where it became the group's ninth Top 10 single. And in Canada, the song enjoyed its greatest international popularity, where it spent one week at number one, and ranks as the 22nd greatest hit of 1976.[2]

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1975–76) Peak
position
Australia [3] 3
Canadian RPM [4] 1
Germany 16
New Zealand [5] 11
UK 3
US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 9
US Cash Box Top 100 [7] 7

Year-end charts

Chart (1976) Rank
Australia [8] 29
Canada [2] 22
US Billboard [9] 92
US Cash Box [10] 87

Track listing

1. "Money Honey" - 3:17
2. "Maryanne" - 2:48

Credits

Notes

References

  1. "money+honey | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  2. 1 2 "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  3. "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  4. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  5. "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1976-03-08. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. "Lyrics: Money Honey by Bay City Rollers". Top40db.net. 1976-02-07. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  7. Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  8. "Top 100 Hits of 1976/Top 100 Songs of 1976". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.


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