Cruisin' for a Bruisin' (Ol' 55 album)

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Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
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Studio album by Ol' 55
Released November 1978
Studio 7 Records Pty Limited
Genre Rock & roll, pop rock
Label Junction Records
Producer Charles Fisher
Ol' 55 chronology
Fiveslivejive
(1977)		Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
(1978)		 Greasemarks: Greatest Hits 1976–79
(1980)
Singles from Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
  1. "Stay (While the Night Is Still Young)" / "Caught in the Curl"
    Released: November 1977
  2. "(Feels Like a) Summer's Night" / "He's Gotta Go"
    Released: March 1978
  3. "Time for Rock 'n' Roll" / "Homework's Done"
    Released: October 1978
  4. "Ruby" / "Nobody Should Be Kissing My Baby"
    Released: December 1978
  5. "Living for Your Smile" / "The Shaggy English Sheepdog Shake"
    Released: April 1979
  6. "Comic Book World" / "Peek-a-Boo!"
    Released: 18 February 1980

Cruisin' for a Bruisin' was the third studio album to be released by Australian band Ol' 55. The album was released in November 1978 and peaked at number 40 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

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Ol' 55 was an Australian band specialising in retro, 1950s-era Rock 'n' Roll. They formed as Fanis in 1972 in Sutherland, Sydney. Drummer Geoff Plummer was working with Glenn A. Baker at the NSW Department of Media and invited Baker to hear his part-time band, including Patrick "Meatballs" Drummond, Rockpile Jones and Jimmy Manzie. In 1975, Baker took on their management, renamed them as Ol' 55 for the Tom Waits song, and recruited front man Frankie J. Holden and, later in the year, saxophonist Wilbur Wilde.

Kent Music Report Australian music chart between 1974-1998

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988. After 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the report under licence for a number of years, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts.

Contents

Track listing

Side one (Stax of Wax I)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cars & Girls" Jimmy Manzie 3:00
2."Time to Rock 'n' Roll"Manzie2:51
3."Living for Your Smile"Manzie3:15
4."I'll Be Her Lover, Saturday Night"Manzie2:39
5."The Shaggy English Sheepdog Shake"Manzie3:00
6."Ruby" Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller 2:49
Side two (Stax of Wax II)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stay (While the Night Is Still Young)"Manzie4:09
2."(Feels Like a) Summer's Night"Manzie3:50
3."Peek-a-Boo!" Jack Hamer 2:07
4."Nobody Should Be Kissing My Baby"Manzie3:06
5."The Way to Fall in Love (Book II)"Manzie2:38
6."Comic Book World"Manzie3:10

Charts

Chart (1978/79) Position
Australian Kent Music Report [1] 40

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References

  1. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 222. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
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