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Elected (song)

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B-side
  
"Luney Tune"

Recorded
  
August 1972

Label
  
Warner Bros.

Released
  
September 1972

Length
  
4:05

Writer(s)
  
Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith

"Elected" is a 1972 song by rock band Alice Cooper, the first Hot 100 hit on their 6th studio album Billion Dollar Babies. The single reached #26 during election week on the US charts, #4 on the UK charts and #3 in Austria. It inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song.

Contents

The song was a radical re-write of their 1969 song "Reflected" from the album Pretties for You.

Track listing

  1. "Elected" - 4:05
  2. "Luney Tune" - 3:36

Appearances on albums

  • Billion Dollar Babies
  • Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
  • The Beast of Alice Cooper
  • The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
  • Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
  • The Definitive Alice Cooper
  • The Essentials: Alice Cooper
  • School's Out and Other Hits

    • Personnel

  • Alice Cooper - vocals
  • Glen Buxton - Lead guitar
  • Michael Bruce - rhythm guitar
  • Dennis Dunaway - Bass
  • Neal Smith - drums

    • Cover versions

  • In 1992, a single and video version titled "(I Want To Be) Elected" by Mr. Bean and Smear Campaign was released in support of the British charity Comic Relief and featured a performance by Bruce Dickinson and members of the UK hard-rock band Taste (later known as Skin). The record was released in the run-up to the UK General Election of 1992 and reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart. The video version, in which Mr. Bean's doorstep canvassing and electoral stunts are intercut with live video of Dickinson and the band, was directed by Paul Weiland
  • "Elected" was used as the closing theme for the second part of the Adult Swim television special Young Person's Guide to History.

    • References

    Elected (song) Wikipedia
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