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Night Cicago Died - The (ver. 1) by Mitch Murray - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"The Night Chicago Died" is a song by the British group Paper Lace, written by Peter Callander and Mitch Murray. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974 and also reached number 3 in the UK charts. It is about a fictional shoot-out in Chicago between gangsters tied to Al Capone and the Chicago Police. The narrator retells his mother's anguish while awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman. "The Night Chicago Died" was Paper Lace's follow-up single to "Billy, Don't Be A Hero", a #1 hit in the U.K. but virtually unheard in the U.S. where Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods' simultaneously-released cover reached #1. Callander and Murray wrote both songs. The U.S. single received a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, signifying sales of at least one million copies. Though the song's story is set in America,.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Mitch Murray (born Lionel Michael Stitcher 30 January 1940, Hove, Sussex), is an English songwriter, record producer and author. Murray’s first major songwriting success was "How Do You Do It?". It was picked up by producer George Martin, who insisted that The Beatles record it as their follow-up to "Love Me Do." Their lack of enthusiasm was clear in the recording, which remained officially unreleased until it appeared on Anthology 1 in 1995. Martin let them release a rearranged version of "Please Please Me" as a single instead, passing "How Do You Do It?" to another young Liverpool based group, Gerry & The Pacemakers. Their version -- essentially a copy of The Beatles' recording -- launched their career with a UK No. 1 single the following Spring. Thus encouraged, Murray sent them another of his songs, "I Like It", which became their second single and also topped the UK Singles Chart. [1] He had further success throughout the next ten years, writing "You Were Made For Me" and "I’m Telling You Now" for Freddie and the Dreamers, the latter in collaboration with frontman, Freddie Garrity. Murray's 1964 book, How To Write A Hit Song.
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