Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song) explained

This Is My City
Type:single
Artist:Skyhooks
Album:Straight in a Gay Gay World
B-Side:Somewhere in Sydney
Released:July 1976
Studio:The Record Plant, Sausalito, California
Length:3:37
Label:Mushroom Records
Producer:Ross Wilson
Prev Title:Let It Rock (live)
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Party to End All Parties
Next Year:1977

"Blue Jeans" is a song by Australian band Skyhooks, released in August 1976 as the third and final single from the band's third studio album, Straight in a Gay Gay World. The song peaked at number 12 in Australia and at number three in New Zealand.

Details

Author Macainsh said, "Blue Jeans is more of what you'd call social comment. We used to do it when we first started. Ross Wilson has always tried to get it recorded, but we've never been real keen on the idea til we got stuck for a song on this album. We wanted a couple of laidback tunes to round it off rather than have an album of ravers and up stuff. So we tried it and it came out well."[1]

Being an older song, Wilson's Doo Dah Music owned the publishing. Singer Shirley Strachan accused producer Wilson of wanting the song included for his own profit, asking him, "So why do you get so much money? You're not even in the band."[2]

Track listing

7" single (K-6542)

Charts

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Blue Jeans"! Chart (1976)! Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 68

Notes and References

  1. . Hullo, this is Greg Macainsh. . 13 August 1976. 19. 38.
  2. Book: Jeff Apter . Shirl . 2012. Hardie Grant Books . 9781742738468 . 176.
  3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 277.
  4. Web site: National Top 100 Singles for 1976. . 131 . . 27 December 1976 . 15 January 2022 .