This group had multiple hit singles with multiple styles. This song was a hit in 1975 and the song peaked at #5 on the Billboard 100, #2 on the UK Charts and #2 in Canada. My first introduction to this band was this single that my sister bought.
The song has been covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Girlschool, and the Scorpions to name a few. Fox on the Run was also featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
This is an article on the making of the song
https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-fox-on-the-run-by-sweet
“Fox On The Run”
‘Cause you don’t look the same
The way you did before
O.K. you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked alright beforeFox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy is on the run
F-foxy
Fox on the run and hide away
You, you talk about just every band
But the names you drop are second hand (second hand)
I’ve heard it all before
I don’t wanna know your name
‘Cause you don’t look the same
The way you did before
Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy on the run
F-foxy
Fox on the run and hide away
F-foxy
Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy on the run
F-foxy
Fox on the run and hide away
Fox on the run
Fox on the run
Fox on the run
Fox on the run
Fox on the run
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First song I heard by them was ‘BallroomBlitz’ which I loved. This came out not long after and I liked it too. Think it was yet another that i had in that very abbreviated form on a K-tel Record!
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K-Tel had it’s place back then because it gave you a variety…I like Ballroom Blitz also…I also remember Love is like Oxygen and Little Willy
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Another cool rock song that’s been nudged off classic rock radio in favor of additional plays of Hotel California and Don’t Stop Believin’. Pity.
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I don’t understand why they don’t think of changing up…you are completely right…you mentioned two songs that I automatically turn down.
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I have their greatest hits or best of- Love Is Like Oxygen- doesn’t sound like the same band to me.
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I know… its like they are different on each song. Little Willy, Ballroom Blitz, Love is like Oxygen and this one.
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Fox On The Run and Little Willy are my favorites.
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My sister had those singles. I wore them out.
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She had some good singles then- not all Osmonds!
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She did sneak some good ones in….
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great track, I was a big Sweet fan, even the bubblegum stuff like Co Co and Poppa Joe, though the 5-in-a-row Wig Wam Bam through Teenage Rampage are the peak, they still had gems like Six-Teens, Action and the fab Love Is Like Oxygen left in them. Sadly I went to see the Billy Connolly touring version just before he died from 20-odd years of alcohol abuse, took the shine off the memory somewhat, his band tried hard to keep him afloat amidst his mumbling and introducing the same track twice in a row.
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That is really sad that he got that far down. I first noticed them with a single my sister had in the early seventies…Little Willy
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Little Willy always made me snigger, innuendo-laden much 🙂
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LOL I know.
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