FORCED to RECORD Other People's Songs…Band Did 1 ORIGINAL in SECRET…Became a SMASH—Professor of Rock

Coming up…. the story of Fox on the Run by 70s British supergroup Sweet. This band had relied heavily on a famous production team to write all of their big hits, but Sweet was sick of singing only the songs they wrote. So the band decided to show what they could do. They had written a good song but no one thought the song had potential to be a single, except for this one executive at the band’s record label. Only thing is this executive wasn’t getting ANY cooperation from management to retool the track, so when the management and production team was out of town, the guys secretly went into the studio and produced the new version themselves. Sweet proved everyone wrong as Fox on the Run became one of their biggest hits. We retrace the steps of this covert operation that led to a huge international hit, and the beginning of a new era for an immensely influential Glam Rock quartet…NEXT on Professor of Rock.”

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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On today’s episode we’re going the Catchy ditty Fox on the Run by the Sweet

Singer Brian Connelly and drummer Mick Tucker recruited bass player Steve Priest to assemble The Sweat Shop in ’68, but just a few weeks before they released their debut record, they found out there was another band named The Sweat Shop, so they changed their name to The Sweet. After adding lead guitarist Andy Scott, The Sweet hooked up with hitmakers Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn and began one of the most successful 4 year run on the pop charts in UK history. Between ’71 and ’74, Chapman & Chinn penned all 11 of the British Top 40 hit singles for The Sweet, including their first hit “Funny Funny,” “Little Willy, “Blockbuster,” and “The Ballroom Blitz,” that were also big hits in the U.S.

Success should have been….sweet, for the quartet, but by ’74, they were tired of the perception that they were just puppets to the Chapman/ Chinn puppeteers. So, when an opportunity presented itself to change that stigma, the band took advantage and covertly re-recorded an album track and reconstructed it into one of their biggest hits. The transformed track was none other than “Fox on the Run.

At the beginning of the Rock Era in the 50s, through the 60’s, the most popular solo artists and groups were essentially the talent that performed material written by someone else. That’s one of the main reasons why acts like Buddy Holly & the Crickets, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles were so revered.. they created and performed...