S-S-S-Single Bed

"S-S-S-Single Bed" is a 1976 song by pop group Fox from their third and final album Blue Hotel. Written and produced by the group's founder Kenny Young, it became their third and final hit on the UK Singles chart in May 1976, spending 10 weeks on the chart and reaching a peak of no. 4.[1] It marked a return to success for Fox, whose second album Tails of Illusion and its single "Strange Ships" had failed to chart. The song was most successful in singer Noosha's native Australia, where it reached no. 1 for four weeks in August 1976.

"S-S-S-Single Bed"
Single by Fox
from the album Blue Hotel
B-side"Silk Milk"
Released1976
StudioLazy Sounds
GenrePop
LabelGTO Records
Songwriter(s)Kenny Young
Producer(s)Kenny Young
Fox singles chronology
"Strange Ships"
(1975)		 "S-S-S-Single Bed"
(1976)		 "Love Letters"
(1976)

The song features suggestive lyrics, sung from the perspective of a lady addressing a man who has missed the last train home, warning him "All I've got is a single bed / there ain't no room for your sweet head". Speaking in 1976, Noosha Fox said she considered the song perhaps musically the best thing the band had done, describing it as understated.[2] Writing in a review of Cherry Red's The Fox Box for Louder Than War in 2017, Ian Canty described the song as a "submerged but tight Funk/Reggae backing track with a great hook-line complementing the cool, sultry vocal".[3]

Track listing

7" Single
No.TitleLength
1."S-S-S-Single Bed" 
2."Silk Milk" 

Charts

The song is heard and keys a crucial flashback to 1976 in the 2018 A Ghost Story for Christmas BBC television short The Dead Room, written and directed by Mark Gatiss and starring Simon Callow.

References
  1. "S-S-S-Single Bed". Official Charts. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  2. Salewicz, Chris (8 May 1976). "The power behind the new 20th century Fox". Liverpool Echo. 4. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  3. Canty, Ian. "Fox: The Fox Box – Album Review". Louder Than War. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. "Ultratop.be – Fox – S-S-S-Single Bed" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  6. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Single Bed". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  7. "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 26, 1976" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40
  8. "Dutchcharts.nl – Fox – S-S-S-Single Bed" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  9. "Fox: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  10. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  11. "Jaaroverzichten 1976" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 3 March 2020.


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