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"Sing Our Own Song"
Single by UB40
from the album Rat in the Kitchen
B-side"Sing Our Own Song (Version)"
Released1986
GenreReggae
Length4:00
LabelDEP International DEP23
Songwriter(s)UB40
Producer(s)UB40
UB40 singles chronology
"Little Baggariddim"
(1985) 		"Sing Our Own Song"
(1986) 		"All I Want"
(1986)

"Sing Our Own Song" is a song and single written and performed by British group UB40. [1] It featured backing singers Jaki Graham, Mo Birch and Ruby Turner[1] and was the ninth and final track on their album Rat in the Kitchen. Released in 1986 it reached 5, on the UK charts, staying for nine weeks. [2] It made 1 on the Dutch charts in 1986.

The song was written as an anti-apartheid song and was censored in South Africa.[3] Featuring the ANC rallying cry of "Amandla Awethu", it is considered a protest song of the time.[4]

Charts

References

  1. ^ a b "Sing Our Own Song". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  2. ^ "UK Official charts - UB40". www.officialscharts.com. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Avoid the censored songs". SABC Media Libraries. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  4. ^ "UB40". www.thebiographychannel.co.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  5. ^ "UB40 – Sing Our Own Song" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 34, 1986" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. ^ "UB40 – Sing Our Own Song" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  8. ^ "UB40 – Sing Our Own Song". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Jaaroverzichten 1986". Ultratop. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1986". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1986". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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