Cherokee (song)

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Cherokee is also the name of a jazz standard written by Ray Noble.
"Cherokee"
"Cherokee" cover
Single by Europe
from the album The Final Countdown
Released 1986
Format 7" Single
12" Single
Genre Hard Rock
Length 4:13
Label Epic Records
Writer(s) Joey Tempest
Producer(s) Kevin Elson
Chart positions
  • #72 (USA)
Europe singles chronology
"Carrie"
1986
"Cherokee"
1986
"Superstitious"
1988

"Cherokee" is a 1986 hit single released by the Swedish hard rock band Europe. It was the fourth single released internationally from the album The Final Countdown, and was number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.

The song was written by vocalist Joey Tempest in 1985, and was in fact the last song written for the album.

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[edit] Trivia

  • The video for "Cherokee" was filmed in September 1987, in Almería, Spain. It was filmed a half mile from where Sergio Leone shot the famous Clint Eastwood spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars. When filming the scene where the horses run through the valley, someone accidentally set some brush near the set on fire. The entire video crew, including band members, had to fight the fire by quickly digging a trench around the fire to stop it spreading.


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