Rock This Town
This article is about the song. For other uses, see Rock This Town (disambiguation).
| "Rock This Town" | |||||||
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| Single by Stray Cats | |||||||
| from the album Stray Cats / Built for Speed | |||||||
| B-side | "You Can't Hurry Love" | ||||||
| Released |
January 29, 1981 (UK) August 31, 1982 (US) | ||||||
| Format | 7" | ||||||
| Recorded | 1981 | ||||||
| Genre | Rockabilly | ||||||
| Label |
Arista (UK) EMI America (U.S.) | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Brian Setzer | ||||||
| Producer(s) | Dave Edmunds | ||||||
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"Rock This Town" is a song by the Stray Cats from their UK debut album Stray Cats. Its first US release was on the 1982 album Built for Speed. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of September 18, 1982, and peaked at No. 9, becoming the first of the band's three Top 10 hits in the US.[1] It had also previously reached this position on the UK Singles Chart in 1981.
The song was listed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll.
Weekly charts
| Chart (1981) | Peak position |
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| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] | 3 |
| UK Singles (Official Charts Company) | 9 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 9 |
Use in media
The song was used in the 2006 video game Cars.[3]
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ↑ "Ultratop.be – Stray Cats – Rock This Town" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ↑ "Cars", IMDb, June 5, 2006, retrieved September 10, 2016
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