Australian singles charts:
Lucretia MacEvil entered the Kent charts on 23 November 1970 and peaked at #43.
Album:
The song is on Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 which entered the Kent album chart on 16 November 1970 and peaked at #6.
Songwriters:
David Clayton-Thomas, Blood, Sweat & Tears
Producers:
Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
Blood, Sweat & Tears performing Lucretia MacEvil on The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, 20 September 1970:
Songfacts:
Blood, Sweat & Tears lead singer David Clayton-Thomas wrote this song. Like Spinning Wheel, he composed it in his native Canada before he joined the band. The song describes a woman of ill repute who will use men to get what she wants.
Clayton-Thomas was inspired by the “bad girls” he saw in the funky bars he played when he was starting out.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/blood-sweat-tears/lucretia-mac-evil
Lyrics:
Little girl what’s your game?
Hard luck and trouble
Bound to be your claim to fame
Tail-shakin’ heart-breakin’ truckin’ through town
Each and every country-mother’s son, hangin’ ’round
Drive a young man insane
Evil that’s your name
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
Also on Bang a Gong by Blood, Sweat & Tears:
And When I Die
Hi-De-Ho
Spinning Wheel
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
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