Uncle Tom's Cabin (song)

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"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Single by Warrant
from the album Cherry Pie
B-side "Sure Feels Good To Me"
ReleasedApril 1991
Recorded1990
Genre Heavy metal [1] [2]
Length4:01
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Jani Lane
Warrant singles chronology
"I Saw Red"
(1991)		"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
(1991)		"Blind Faith"
(1991)

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a song by American glam metal band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album Cherry Pie . The song charted at #78 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. [3] In Australia, the single peaked at #85 on the ARIA singles chart in May 1991. [4]

Contents

A music video was made for the song, and later the song was re-visited by the band in 1999 on their Greatest & Latest album.

Background

According to frontman Jani Lane, the original working title for the song was "I Know a Secret".

Prior to the writing of the song "Cherry Pie", the album's title and first single was to have been "Uncle Tom's Cabin", [5] a track which foreshadowed the kind of imaginative song writing which would later be more fully revealed on the Dog Eat Dog record. Although named after the classic novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the song tells the story of a witness to the involvement of local police in a double murder.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Uncle Tom's Cabin" (radio edit)3:27
2."Sure Feels Good to Me"2:38

Charts

Chart performance for "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Chart (1991)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [6] 85
US Billboard Hot 100 [7] 78
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [8] 19

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  2. ↑ Diehl, Bob (December 3, 2018). "10 Forgotten Hair Metal Songs That Deserve To Be Remembered". Audacy . Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Allmusic (Warrant charts and awards) Billboard singles". AllMusic.
  4. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  5. ↑ "The truth about Jani Lane's complicated relationship with Cherry Pie" . Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Warrant ARIA singles chart history, received from ARIA on March 26, 2019" – via Imgur.
  7. ↑ "Warrant Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2021.
  8. ↑ "Warrant Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 2021.
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