Shanghai'd in Shanghai

"Shanghai'd in Shanghai"
Single by Nazareth
from the album Rampant
B-side Love, Now You're Gone
Released 1974
Format 7-inch single
Genre Rock
Label Mooncrest
Writer(s) McCafferty, Sweet, Agnew, Charlton
Producer(s) Roger Glover
Nazareth singles chronology
This Flight Tonight
1973		 Shanghai'd in Shanghai
1974		 My White Bicycle
1975

"Shanghai'd in Shanghai" is a song and single by Scottish rock group, Nazareth. It was first released in 1974.

Background and chart success

The song features Dan McCafferty on lead vocals, Darrell Sweet on percussion, Pete Agnew on bass guitar and Manny Charlton on electric guitar. It was taken from their 1974 album Rampant. The song was the fourth of eleven of Nazareth's singles to chart in the UK. It reached 41 in the UK Singles Chart in 1974 staying for four weeks.[1] Donald A. Guarisco of Allmusic describes the song as "plenty of energy, building from verses with a bluesy swing into a throbbing sing-along chorus that any glam band of 1970s would have killed for". Manny Charlton provided power chords which combined with Dan McCafferty's "gritty" lead vocal.The song was a radio favourite and also a favourite with fans of the group. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Nazareth". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Song Review by Donald A. Guarisco". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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