Tiger Feet
"Tiger Feet" | ||||
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Single by Mud | ||||
from the album Mud Rock | ||||
B-side | "Mr Bagatelle" | |||
Released | 11 January 1974[1] | |||
Recorded | 1973 | |||
Genre | Glam rock | |||
Length | 3:45 | |||
Label | RAK[1] | |||
Songwriter(s) | Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn[1] | |||
Producer(s) | Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn[1] | |||
Mud singles chronology | ||||
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Tiger Feet is a popular song by the English glam rock band Mud, released in January 1974.[2] Written and produced by the songwriting team of Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, it was the first of three number No. 1 singles for the band, in the UK Singles Chart.[3] followed later that year by "Oh Boy!" and "Lonely This Christmas".
The band appeared on Top of the Pops wearing tiger slippers.[4][5]
Co-writer and producer Mike Chapman credited bassist Ray Stiles with a particularly memorable bass lick which helped fuel the success of the record.[citation needed]
Release details
According to his son, Calvin Hayes, Mickie Most added the song to RAK records' lineup on the basis of the title alone.[6]
The single was released on the 7 inch vinyl record format by the RAK music label. The B-side of the single is Mr Bagatelle.[1]
"Tiger Feet" was featured as part of a medley on Mud's album Mud Rock, which reached number No. 8 in the UK Albums Chart.[7]
Chart position and sales
"Tiger Feet" was a huge success, it was number No. 1 in the UK and Ireland charts for four consecutive weeks, from 26 January to 16 February, in 1974[3] and also topped the charts in the Netherlands. It sold over 700,000 copies in the UK alone and over a million copies globally. It was also the best selling single in Britain that year.[2]
Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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Belgium | 1 |
Ireland | 1 |
Netherlands | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Switzerland | 5 |
Austria | 6 |
Germany | 6 |
Norway | 10 |
Covers
All-female band Girlschool later covered the song on their 1986 album Nightmare at Maple Cross.
In popular culture
- Dutch comic Jack, Jacky and the Juniors subjected the song to a 1974-gag about a sudden blackout.
- The song is featured in the Mr. Bean episode "Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean".
- In 2009, the song appeared in television adverts for Flora Margarine.
- It featured as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London.
- A version of the song by New Hope Club featured in the 2018 film Early Man and was released as a single.
- A version of the song was featured in the 2018 miniseries A Very English Scandal
- Appears in book 5 of My Dad Wrote a Porno, in which a character’s EKG monitor is reported to sound like the song.
See also
- List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1974
- List of number-one singles of 1974 (Ireland)
- List of number-one singles from the 1970s (UK)
References
- ^ a b c d e "Mud - Tiger Feet (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ^ a b "MUD Discography - the singles". Mudrock.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 296–7. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ James McCarraher (2012). 101 Songs To Discover From The Seventies. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4478-6266-6.
- ^ Ian Gittins (2007). Top of the Pops: Mishaps, Miming, and Music - True Adventures of TV's No. 1 Pop Show. BBC Books. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-84607-327-4.
- ^ Barney Hoskyns (1 November 1998). Glam! : Bowie, Bolan and the glitter rock revolution. ISBN 978-0671034405.
- ^ "Mud Rock". Mud Rock. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
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