Hot Child in the City explained

Hot Child in the City
Cover:Hot Child in the City Nick Glider.jpg
Border:yes
Type:single
Artist:Nick Gilder
Album:City Nights
B-Side:Backstreet Noise
Released:June 12, 1978
Recorded:October 1977
Genre:
Length:3:09 (Single Version)
3:35 (Album Version)
Label:Chrysalis
Producer:Mike Chapman
Prev Title:Here Comes the Night
Prev Year:1978
Next Title:She's One of the Boys
Next Year:1979

"Hot Child in the City" is a song by English-Canadian musician Nick Gilder. It was released in June 1978 as a single from the album City Nights. It went to No. 1 both in Canada (October 14, 1978) and in the United States (October 28, 1978). It was not his first No. 1 single: as the lead singer of Sweeney Todd, he had hit No. 1 in Canada on June 26, 1976 (in the RPM listing) with the single "Roxy Roller", which remained at the top for three weeks.[3] [4] [5] He won 2 Juno Awards in Canada and a People's Choice Award in the US. According to The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, it held the record for taking the longest amount of weeks to reach No. 1 at the time, taking 21 weeks to reach the summit. The song became a platinum record.

Content

Despite the song's innocent and catchy pop stylings, the tune is based on Gilder's experiences witnessing child prostitution in Los Angeles. "I've seen a lot of young girls, 15 and 16, walking down Hollywood Boulevard with their pimps. Their home environment drove them to distraction so they ran away, only to be trapped by something even worse. It hurts to see that so I tried writing from the perspective of a lecher – in the guise of an innocent pop song."[6]

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1978)Peak
position
Australia KMR[7] 18
Canada Top Singles (RPM)1
US Billboard Hot 1001
US Cash Box Top 100[8] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)Rank
Canada[9] 7
New Zealand[10] 36
US Billboard Hot 100[11] 22
US Cash Box[12] 6

All-time charts

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tom . Breihan . The Number Ones: Nick Glider's "Hot Child in the City" . . January 6, 2020 . ...his panting power-popper “Hot Child In The City”...[is] a tight, well-constructed rocker.... January 21, 2020.
  2. Web site: Tom . Breihan . The Number Ones: Nick Glider's "Hot Child in the City" . . January 6, 2020 . ...his panting power-popper “Hot Child In The City”...[is] a tight, well-constructed rocker.... January 21, 2020.
  3. Web site: Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . February 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015113924/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4158a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 . October 15, 2012 . dead .
  4. Web site: Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . February 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015113946/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4167a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 . October 15, 2012 . dead .
  5. Web site: Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . February 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015114026/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4146a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 . October 15, 2012 . dead .
  6. http://superseventies.com/sw_hotchildinthecity.html Hot Child In The City
  7. Book: Kent, David . David Kent (historian) . . Australian Chart Book . St Ives, N.S.W. . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6.
  8. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, November 4, 1978 . September 27, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161009151223/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19781104.html . October 9, 2016 . dead .
  9. Web site: Top 200 Singles of '78 – Volume 30, No. 14, December 30 1978 . . July 17, 2013 . . July 31, 2017.
  10. Web site: End of Year Charts 1978 . . May 1, 2017 .
  11. http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1978.htm Musicoutfitters.com
  12. Web site: Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 30, 1978 . September 27, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180929211008/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1978YESP.html . September 29, 2018 . dead .
  13. Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart. Billboard. December 10, 2018.

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