Money Honey (Bay City Rollers song)

"Money Honey (Bay City Rollers song)"
Single by Bay City Rollers
from the album Rock n' Roll Love Letter
B-side "Maryanne"
Released 1976
Format 7" Vinyl
Recorded 1975
Genre Pop
Length 3:17
Label Arista
Writer(s) Eric Faulkner, Stuart John Wood
Bay City Rollers singles chronology
"Saturday Night"
(1976)
"Money Honey"
(1976)
"Rock and Roll Love Letter"
(1976)

"Money Honey" is the title of a 1976 international hit single by the Bay City Rollers, taken from their album Rock n' Roll Love Letter. The power-pop recording was issued as the album's lead single in January 1976, reaching number nine on the US Hot 100 in Billboard magazine that March. "Money Honey" was the Bay City Rollers' second US Top 10 hit. It reached number seven on the Cash Box chart. The follow-up single was the album's title track, "Rock and Roll Love Letter" (US #28). In the UK, "Money Honey" was released in November 1975 and reached number three.[1]

Outside the US, "Money Honey" was yet a bigger hit, such as in Australia (#3) and in the UK (#3), where it became the group's ninth Top 10 single. And in Canada, the song enjoyed its greatest international popularity, where it spent one week at number one, and ranks as the 22nd greatest hit of 1976.[2]

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1975–76) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 9
US Cash Box Top 100 [4] 7
Canadian RPM [5] 1
UK 3
Australia 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1975) Position
UK [6] 65
Chart (1976) Position
Canada [7] 22
US Billboard Hot 100 [8] 92
US Cash Box Top 100 [9] 87

Track listing

1. "Money Honey" - 3:17
2. "Maryanne" - 2:48

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