Australian singles chart:
Hard Rock Cafe entered the Kent Music Report on 15 August 1977 and peaked at #10. The song was #67 on the Top 100 of 1977.
Album:
The song is on Simple Things which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 15 August 1977 and peaked at #19.
Songwriter:
Carole King
Producers:
Carole King, Norm Kinney
Record label of Australian release:
Capitol
Wikipedia:
In 1977, King collaborated with songwriter Rick Evers on the album Simple Things, the first with a new label distributed by Capitol Records. Shortly after that, King and Evers were married; he died of a cocaine overdose, one year later, while King and her daughter, Sherry, were in Hawaii. Simple Things was her first album that failed to reach the top ten on Billboard (USA) since Tapestry.
The single Hard Rock Cafe found its greatest chart success in Australia, reaching the top ten.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_King
Lyrics:
Downtown anywhere USA
You can find yourself a Hard Rock Cafe
Put your money on a number, anyone can play
Come on and tell us all about what happened to you today
At the Hard Rock Cafe, come to the Hard Rock Cafe
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