Can-Con 45 Of The Day - April 27

[radiofan]

Today's Can-Con 45 is from 1977 ... It's Chilliwack and "Fly At Night" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nYvmm0Ofmc

[Richard Skelly]

If memory serves, this was the third Chilliwack single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Unlike Lonesome Mary (on A & M) and Crazy Talk (on Sire) Fly At Night actually stuck around for a few weeks, but couldn't crack the Top 50. I've seen the current edition of Chilliwack twice in recent years and darned if this isn't the best received song in their repertoire. Fans seem to know the lyrics and sing along with abandon.

Chilliwack did two more albums for Mushroom Records before the label collapsed financially. Maybe history would have been different if Mushroom wunderkind Shelley Siegel hadn't died from a brain aneurysm a year before the end.