Rock This Town

"Rock This Town"
Single by Stray Cats
from the album Stray Cats/Built for Speed
B-side "You Can't Hurry Love"
Released February 6, 1981 (UK)
August 31, 1982 (U.S.)
Format 7"
Recorded 1981
Genre Rockabilly
Length 3:24
Label Arista (UK)
EMI America (U.S.)
Songwriter(s) Brian Setzer
Producer(s) Dave Edmunds
Stray Cats singles chronology
"Runaway Boys"
(1980)		 "Rock This Town"
(1981)		 "Stray Cat Strut"
(1981)

"Runaway Boys"
(1980)		 "Rock This Town"
(1981)		 "Stray Cat Strut"
(1981)
Alternative covers
US 7" single cover

"Rock This Town" is the second single by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, released February 6, 1981 by Arista Records in the UK, where it peaked at No. 9 on the Singles Chart.[1] It was taken from the band's 1981 debut album, Stray Cats.

Its first US release, by EMI America, was on the June 1982 album Built for Speed. Released as a single on August 31, 1982, it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of September 18, 1982, and peaked at No. 9.[2]

The song was listed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".[3]

Cover versions

The song was covered in the 2005 video game Guitar Hero II.

"Rock This Town" was featured in the 2006 video games Cars[4] and Elite Beat Agents,[5] and in the TV show The Americans (2013).

Weekly charts

Chart (1981-82) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[6] 3
UK Singles (Official Charts Company) 9
US Billboard Hot 100 9

References

  1. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18719/stray-cats/
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. ↑ https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/01/brian-setzers-stray-cats-to-reunite-for-first-show-in-10-years/
  4. ↑ "Cars", IMDb, June 5, 2006, retrieved September 10, 2016
  5. ↑ "Elite Beat Agents", IMDb, November 6, 2006, retrieved October 11, 2017
  6. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Stray Cats – Rock This Town" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
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