Australian singles chart:
The Crunch entered the Kent Music Report on 5 December 1977 and peaked at #16.
Album:
The song is on The RAH Band’s 1977 album The Crunch & Beyond.
Songwriter:
Richard Hewson
Producer:
Richard Hewson
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor / Good Earth
BONUS CLIP BELOW – Richard Hewson talks about how The Crunch came to be, and how Top of the Pops faked it! Worth a look.
Wikipedia:
Richard Anthony Hewson is an English producer, arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist, who created the studio group RAH Band.
Hewson began in the late 1960s as an arranger, and has worked with musicians such as The Beatles, The Bee Gees, James Taylor, Herbie Hancock, Clifford T. Ward, Supertramp, Pilot, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Art Garfunkel, Leo Sayer, Paul McCartney, Mary Hopkin, Al Stewart, Chris de Burgh, Fleetwood Mac and Chris Rea. He also arranged strings on several Cliff Richard albums.
Hewson founded The RAH Band – of which he was the sole member and which took its name from his initials – in 1977, to release an instrumental called The Crunch. Despite how it sounds, the record didn’t use synthesisers, only conventional guitar and keyboards with pedal effects.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Anthony_Hewson
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BONUS CLIP
Richard Anthony Hewson tells how his debut single The Crunch was created and released under the name The RAH Band in 1977. Keep watching to hear the legendary story of how a fake version of the tune was performed on Top Of The Pops.
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