Climax Blues Band - Couldn’t Get It Right (1st one-hit wonder of 1976)

“Couldn’t Get It Right“ is a 1976 song by the Climax Blues Band. The song was written after the band’s label told them that their 1976 album Gold Plated lacked a standout track and asked them to “try and write a hit“.[4] They then wrote it, in the words of its bassist Derek Holt, “from absolutely nowhere“[4] and it hit #10 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] Later on that year, the song was picked up by Sire Records and the following year it made #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6] Later that year, the song was ranked #32 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1977.[7] About The song was recorded for their eighth studio album, Gold Plated, which was named after Pete Haycock’s Veleno guitar and produced by Mike Vernon. The song was specifically written and produced after the manager of the band, Miles Copeland III, demanded that the band append a radio-friendly song to the tracklisting. The band at the time had released eight albums and although that had translated