Single:
Mama Weer All Crazee Now entered the Australian singles chart* on 20 November 1972 and peaked at #14. It was #70 on the Top 100 of 1973.
Album:
The song is on Slayed? which entered the Australian albums chart* on 15 January 1973 and was #1 for 6 weeks.
Songwriters:
Noddy Holder, Jim Lea
Producer:
Chas Chandler
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The song was originally titled “My My We’re All Crazy Now”. When Holder and Lea played the song acoustically to manager/producer Chas Chandler for the first time, he thought Holder was singing “mama we’re all crazy now”. The name was then changed accordingly as Holder and Lea felt Chandler’s title was better.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Weer_All_Crazee_Now
Songfacts:
This was originally the work of bassist Jim Lea; it was the first tune he wrote completely on his own. However, his writing partner Noddy Holder was responsible for the lyrics, standing on the stage after a typically boisterous London show and surveying the smashed seating left in the auditorium. “I thought everyone must have been crazy tonight,” he later said.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/slade/mama-weer-all-crazee-now
Lyrics:
I don′t want to drink my whisky like you do
I don’t need to spend my money, but still do
Don′t stop now, now come on
Another drop now, come on
I wanna love now, now come on
That’s why, that’s why
I said mama we′re all crazy now
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