100 Ton Chicken Explained

100 Ton Chicken
Type:studio
Artist:Chicken Shack
Cover:100tonchicken.jpg
Released:October 1969[1]
Recorded:19 April – 11 May 1969
Studio:Morgan Sound Studios, Willesden, London,
Genre:Blues
Length:35:28
Label:Blue Horizon
Producer:Mike Vernon
Prev Title:O.K. Ken?
Prev Year:1969
Next Title:Accept
Next Year:1970

100 Ton Chicken is the third studio album by the blues band, Chicken Shack, released in 1969. This album was Paul Raymond's first album as a member of Chicken Shack, replacing Christine Perfect.[2]

Unlike its predecessors, 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve and O.K. Ken?, 100 Ton Chicken did not reach the UK Albums Chart.[3] AllMusic noted "Sorry, but this chicken laid a 20-ton rotten egg".[2]

The entire album and the rest of the Chicken Shack sessions on Blue Horizon were made available on the CD compilation Chicken Shack - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2007). Several outtakes from the 100 Ton Chicken sessions were made available for the first time on this compilation. "Smartest Girl in the World" and "Hideaway" were both unpublished outtakes. "The Things You Put Me Through" was also an outtake but it had been released as the B side to the single "Tears in the Wind".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Stan Webb, except where noted. [2]

Personnel

Chicken Shack

Additional personnel

Production

Notes and References

  1. Album Reviews . New Musical Express. October 25, 1969 . 12 . 15 September 2021.
  2. Web site: 100 Ton Chicken - Chicken Shack | Songs, Reviews, Credits . . 2016-03-05.
  3. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 104.
  4. Web site: 100 Ton Chicken - Chicken Shack | Credits . . 2016-03-05.
  5. Web site: CHICKEN SHACK - 100 TON CHICKEN - Catalog - Music On Vinyl. Vinyl. Music On. www.musiconvinyl.com. 2016-03-10.