Cool for Cats (song)

"Cool for Cats"
"Cool for Cats"
Single by Squeeze
from the album Cool for Cats
B-side	"Model"
Released	9 March 1979
Recorded	1978
Genre	New wave; disco; post-punk; pub rock;
Length	3:39 (album version); 3:10 (single version)
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Chris Difford; Glenn Tilbrook;
Producer(s)	John Wood; Squeeze;
Squeeze singles chronology
Music video
	"Cool for Cats" on YouTube

"Cool for Cats" is a song by English rock band Squeeze, released as the second single from their album of the same name. The song features a rare lead vocal performance from cockney-accented Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford, one of the only two occasions he sang lead on a Squeeze single A-side (the other was 1989's "Love Circles"). The song, slightly edited from the album track, peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1979, making "Cool for Cats" one of the band's biggest hits.

^ ^a ^b Mason, Stewart. "Cool for Cats - Squeeze". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (17 July 2000). "A Flock of Haircuts: New Wave". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
^ "The 80 Greatest Albums of 1980". Rolling Stone. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2023. A year after their cockney skinny-tie disco classic "Cool for Cats"...
^ "Set to Swing to Squeeze!". Staffordshire Newsletter. 18 September 1987.

[AllMusic-1] Mason, Stewart. "Cool for Cats - Squeeze". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

[Breithaupt_2000-2] Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (17 July 2000). "A Flock of Haircuts: New Wave". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.

[RS_1980-3] "The 80 Greatest Albums of 1980". Rolling Stone. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2023. A year after their cockney skinny-tie disco classic "Cool for Cats"...

[sn-4] "Set to Swing to Squeeze!". Staffordshire Newsletter. 18 September 1987.

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