Paul Jack Griffiths is watching Mud performing The Cat Crept In from 1974 ..... @no more left, cmon !! Mud performing their massive smash hit single The Cat Crept In from 1974 ..... After years of touring Mud were signed to Mickie Mosts RAK label and had three Top 20 successes in 1973 with Crazy a no:12 hit, Hypnosis a no:16 and Dynamite which made it to no:4. At the peak of their career they also enjoyed 3 UK no:1 singles with Tiger Feet and Lonely This Christmas from 1974 plus Oh Boy in 1975 which also featured on their album Mud Rock Volume 2. Tiger Feet sold over 900,000 copies in the UK and a million+ copies globally. Like contemporaries The Sweet their most successful period came when their records were written and produced by Chinn and Chapman @RAK records. In 1975 they had 7 singles in the UK Top 40 totalling over 45 weeks on the chart which was the most by any artist in 1975. Oh Boy was the only no:1 single produced by Chinn and Chapman that they did not also write. Lonely This Christmas gets seasonal airplay on UK radio and television, The band also embraced the burgeoning disco craze as exemplified on their 1976 single Shake It Down which reached no:12 in the UK chart. After Tiger Feet they released the banging Glam Monster hitThe Cat Crept In which reached no:2 in April 1974 which was written to exploit Les Grays vocal impression of Presley. Their next single Rocket reached no:6 in the UK and is a firm fans favorite. After the success with Lonely This Christmas they cracked the Valentines Day market with The Secrets That You Keep which reached no:3 in February of 1975. Around this time Mud wound up their contract with RAK releasing 3 further singles Oh Boy their 3rd and final UK no:1, Moonshine Sally a no:10 hit and One Night which struggled to no:32. Mud also split from Chinn and Chapman in mid 1975 and signed to Private Stock. There they enjoyed 3 more British Top 20 hits within seven months: L-L-Lucy a Chinn & Chapman sounding stomper that made the no:10 spot, the ballad Show Me Youre A Woman a no:8 hit and the disco influenced track Shake It Down which was a no:12 hit. The latter two singles saw them gradually moving away from glam rock, which was now unfashionable. Keyboardist Andy Ball, formerly of Candlewick Green, joined the band briefly during this period, to be replaced in early 1978 by Brian Tatum. Their last single to reach the British charts was a cover of the Bill Withers song Lean on Me which reached no:7 in the UK in December 1976...... So here is 1974s The Cat Crept In showing my beloved Mud at their very, very best !!
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:13:30 +0000
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