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Feb 19, 2002 · Greatest Hits by Paper Lace released in 2002. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
- You Can’T Touch Me
- In The Morning
- Jean
- We Got The Whole World in Our Hands
- Martha
- Hitchin’ A Ride
- I Did What I Did For Maria
- The Black-Eyed Boys
- Billy Don’T Be A Hero
- The Night Chicago Died
We open up our top 10 Paper Lace songs list with the band’s first single release in the U.K. entitled “You Can’t Touch Me.”The song was released in 1971.
Continuing with our top 10 Paper Lace songs we turn to the band’s first single released in the United States. “In The Morning,”was issued on Bang Records in 1972.
This one always reminded me a bit ofThe Grass Roots. The song “Jean,” was released by Paper Lace in 1974. Another great one that should have been a hit. Great horn riff!
In 1978, Paper Lace returned to the pop charts in the United Kingdom for the last time with their sing along with the Nottingham Forest Football Club. The founding members of Paper Lace were from Nottingham, England.
This one is great. Just one of those classic early 1970s songs. This is one that most surely got away. The song “Martha (Whatever Happened),”was the band’s second single release in the United States in 1972.
Paper Lace covered this original 1969 Vanity Fare song in 1974. The song was also written by the songwriting team of Peter Callander and Mitch Murray.
This one is definitely a forgotten gem from Paper Lace. “I Did What I Did For Maria, was released in 1974 on the U.K. album Paper Lace and Other Bits Of Material.
While those living in the United States may not be aware of this Paper Lace song, music fans in the United Kingdom who grew up in the 1970s know it well. Paper Lace had a big hit in the U.K. with their song “The Black-Eyed Boys.” The song served as the follow up single to “The Night Chicago Died.”In the U.S. the song peaked at number 11 on the U.K....
It’s interesting to hear the difference between the Paper Lace version and the Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods version of “Billy Don’t Be A Hero.” In the United States we all knew the Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods track. In the United Kingdom it was all about the Paper Lace version. Both bands hit number one in their respective countries with the son...
I was 13 years old when this song hit the airwaves in 1974. It was at a time when many people still listened to am radio. The song by Paper Lace entitled “The Night Chicago Died,” seemed to be played every fifteen minutes on the radio. I loved it. I was thirteen. The song was entertaining, exciting, it was cool. I was thirteen, what did I know abou...
- Brian Kachejian
Paper Lace are a British pop/rock band, formed in Nottingham, who rose to success in 1974 and during that year had three UK Top 40 hit singles. In the United States they are considered a one-hit wonder, having had a single US number one hit in 1974 with "The Night Chicago Died".
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Compilation, Remastered. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "Greatest Hits" on Discogs.
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Mar 16, 2017 · Listen free to Paper Lace – Greatest Hits (Billy Don't Be a Hero, The Night Chicago Died and more). 16 tracks (50:06). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
