Single:
Can the Can entered the Australian singles chart* on 6 August 1973 and was a #1 hit. The song was #3 on the Top 100 of 1973.
Album:
The song is on Can the Can which entered the Australian albums chart* on 3 December 1973 and peaked at #2. The album was released in the USA and UK as Suzi Quatro, but in Australia as Can the Can.
Songwriters:
Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn
Producers:
Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn
Record label of Australian release:
Rak
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
This, Quatro’s second solo single, was released after she moved from the United States to Britain. For Can the Can, Quatro organised her own band, which had toured the United Kingdom as the warm-up act for Slade and Thin Lizzy, and had new songwriters/producers Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_the_Can
Songfacts:
When asked what Can The Can means, Nicky Chinn replied: “It means something that is pretty impossible, you can’t get one can inside another if they are the same size, so we’re saying you can’t put your man in the can if he is out there and not willing to commit. The phrase sounded good and we didn’t mind if the public didn’t get the meaning of it.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/suzi-quatro/can-the-can
Lyrics:
Well you call your mamma tiger
And we all know you are lying
And your boyfriend’s name is eagle
And he lives up in the sky (high high)
Watch out the tiger don’t go claw the eagle’s eye
But let the eagle take the tiger by surprise
Scratch out her eyes
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
Also by Suzi Quatro on Bang a Gong:
48 Crash
Daytona Demon
Devil Gate Drive
Evie
Too Big
The Wild One
Your Mamma Won’t Like Me
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