Rockin' Chair (Gwen McCrae song)

"Rockin' Chair"
Single by Gwen McCrae
B-side	"It Keeps on Raining"
Released	May 1975
Genre	Soul[1] disco[2]
Length	3:15
Label	TK
Composer(s)	Willie Clarke/Clarence Reid[3]
Gwen McCrae singles chronology
"Love Insurance" (1975) "Rockin' Chair" (1975) "Let's Dance, Dance, Dance" (1975)

Rockin' Chair is a hit 1975 song by singer Gwen McCrae. The song is not to be confused with either Fats Domino's 1951 R&B hit of the same name or the 1929 "Rockin' Chair" by Hoagy Carmichael.

Use as answer song

Gwen's husband, George McCrae, had a number-one hit single the year earlier, "Rock Your Baby." "Rockin' Chair" was intended to be an answer song to George's hit. The songs were released just less than a year apart. George provided backing vocals on the song.

Chart history

"Rockin' Chair" was McCrae's sole entry into the US top 10 on both the pop and soul charts. The single hit number nine on the US pop charts, and hit number one on the US soul chart for one week.^[4] In Canada, "Rockin' Chair" spent two weeks at number 23.

Weekly charts Chart (1975) Peak position Canada RPM Top Singles[5] 23 New Zealand (RIANZ)[6] 37 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] 9 U.S. Billboard R&B[7] 1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] 10

Year-end charts Chart (1975) Rank Canada[9] 174 U.S. Cash Box[10] 96

References

1. Breihan, Tom (November 15, 2022). "George McCrae - "Rock Your Baby". The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. New York: Hachette Book Group. p. 112.
2. Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Boogie Down: The Dawn of Disco". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 184. ISBN 031214704X.
3. "discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 389.
5. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. August 2, 1975. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
6. "The Official New Zealand Music Chart". THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
7. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
8. "Cash Box Top 100 7/26/75". tropicalglen.com. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
9. Canada, Library and Archives (July 17, 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
10. "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1975". tropicalglen.com. Retrieved November 19, 2018.