We’re recalling the day {that a} bizarre title first appeared on the Billboard Sizzling 100, one which many individuals couldn’t even pronounce. On July 27, 1974, as John Denver’s “Annie’s Song” climbed to No.1 and hits by Roberta Flack, Dave Loggins, and Chicago entered the Prime 10, Lynyrd Skynyrd made their first-ever displaying on the chart, at a cautious No.93. However the tune in query would develop into one in all their lifelong anthems. It was “Sweet Home Alabama.”
The tune, written as a solution document to Neil Younger’s “Alabama” and “Southern Man” and namechecking Younger in its lyrics, was the final word sluggish burner. It took over a month to get into the Prime 40, apparently peaking at No.9 in October however then rising once more to spend two weeks at No.8 late that month and early November.
Skynyrd had been rising as an album drive for some time by then, first getting into the American album chart in September 1973 with their helpfully-titled debut set Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd), which ended up promoting two million copies within the US alone. They shortly repeated that double platinum achievement with Second Serving to, the album that included “Sweet Home Alabama.”
Charlie Daniels coated the tune in 1981 and singer-songwriter Jewel did it her approach in 2002. Then, amongst a variety of different remakes and film placements for “Sweet Home Alabama,” Child Rock took it to a brand new viewers by utilizing its riff and melody on his 2008 hit “All Summer Long,” which featured Skynyrd’s keyboard participant Billy Powell. That single turned a big success, topping the charts in eight international locations all over the world (together with the UK and Australia) and spreading Skynyrd’s title to a complete new viewers within the twenty first century.
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