Indian Reservation - Don Fardon 7" 45

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DON FARDON full Official Chart History Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved October 10, 2015.

Fardon is best known for his cover of the song " Indian Reservation" (1968), a UK number 3 hit and global million selling disc. He also wrote the football anthem " Belfast Boy" about George Best. Cash Box YE Pop Singles – 1971". tropicalglen.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016 . Retrieved December 29, 2016. In spite of the song's title, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma are not known as "reservations", [9] and singing that they may someday "return" is at odds with the fact that these Cherokee Nations still exist. [9] National Museum of the American Indian (2007). Do All Indians Live in Tipis?. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-115301-3. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 4th 1971, "Indian Reservation" by the Raiders entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 at position #94; fifteen weeks later on July 18th, 1971 it peaked at #1 {for 1 week} and spent 22 weeks on the Top 100...Deb from Portland, OrMark Lindsay sang Indian Reservation; in fact, it was recorded as a Mark Lindsay single (he's part Cherokee) but then he released it as a Raider single when the group was pressed for a new single. Mark produced Freddy Weller's Indian Lake and somehow the confuson began. Barry from Sauquoit, NyJohn D. Loudermilk had four records that made the Top 100; his most successful was "Language of Love", it peaked at #32 in 1961. As Johnny Dee he charted with "Sittin' In the Balcony", it reached #38 in 1957... Indigenous electronic music group the Halluci Nation has sampled the song on several occasions. [31] Camille from Toronto, OhJohn Loudermilk also went on to co-write the hit country tune "Indian Outlaw" which put Tim McGraw (you know, Faith Hill's hubby) on the map.

It spent three weeks at #2 before moving up to the top spot, then after being at #1 for one week it spent two more weeks at #2... Roy from Leeds, EnglandFardon's version not a hit in UK until October 1970. He was originally lead singer with a UK band called the Sorrows who had a top 30 UK hit in 1965 with a song called Take A Heart

The English punk band 999 released their version on November 14, 1981, on the Albion Ion label, and it reached number 51 in the UK chart. [30] Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p.420. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.