"Money Honey" | ||||
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Single by Bay City Rollers | ||||
from the album Rock n' Roll Love Letter | ||||
B-side | "Maryanne" | |||
Released |
February 1976 (US) |
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Format | 7" Vinyl | |||
Recorded | 1975 | |||
Genre | Hard rock, glam rock, power pop, pop rock | |||
Length | 3:17 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Writer(s) | Eric Faulkner, Stuart John Wood | |||
Bay City Rollers singles chronology | ||||
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February 1976 (US)
"Money Honey" is the title of a 1975 international hit single by the Bay City Rollers, taken from their album Rock n' Roll Love Letter. The power-pop recording was issued in the US as the album's lead single in January 1976, reaching number nine on the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine that March. "Money Honey" was the Bay City Rollers' second US Top 10 hit. It reached number seven on the Cash Box chart. The follow-up single was the album's title track, "Rock and Roll Love Letter" (US #28). In the UK, "Money Honey" was released in November 1975 and reached number three.
Outside the US, "Money Honey" was yet a bigger hit, such as in Australia (#3) and in the UK (#3), where it became the group's ninth Top 10 single. And in Canada, the song enjoyed its greatest international popularity, where it spent one week at number one, and ranks as the 22nd greatest hit of 1976.
1. "Money Honey" - 3:17
2. "Maryanne" - 2:48