B-side Love, Now You're Gone Format 7-inch single Label Mooncrest | Released 1974 Genre Rock | |
Writer(s) McCafferty, Sweet, Agnew, Charlton | ||
"Shanghai'd in Shanghai" is a song and single by Scottish rock group, Nazareth. It was first released in 1974.
Background and chart success
The song features Dan McCafferty on lead vocals, Darrell Sweet on percussion, Pete Agnew on bass guitar and Manny Charlton on electric guitar. It was taken from their 1974 album Rampant. The song was the fourth of eleven of Nazareth's singles to chart in the UK. It reached 41 in the UK Singles Chart in 1974 staying for four weeks. Donald A. Guarisco of Allmusic describes the song as "plenty of energy, building from verses with a bluesy swing into a throbbing sing-along chorus that any glam band of 1970s would have killed for". Manny Charlton provided power chords which combined with Dan McCafferty's "gritty" lead vocal.The song was a radio favourite and also a favourite with fans of the group.