BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLES 1970: #502: “LET’S WORK TOGETHER”- CANNED HEAT

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Canned Heat Let's Work Together (Single) (EP)- Spirit of Rock Webzine (en)

Billboard Hot 100 Singles 1970: #502: “Let’s Work Together”- Canned Heat. October 10, 1970.

  • Single: ” Let’s Work Together”- Canned Heat
  • Record Company- Liberty
  • Genre: Blues Rock
  • Written by Wilbert Harrison
  • Time: 2:45
  • B-side: “I’m Her Man”
  • Album- Future Blues
  • Grade: A
  • Peaked at #26 11 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

Wilbert Harrison released this as a single back in 1962- and it failed to chart -but in 1969 his reworked version hit the Top 40- #32- a year later Canned Heat’s cover did even better #26. Canned Heat had two big hits from 1968- “On The Road Again” #16 and “Going Up The Country” #11.

Canned Heat were a blues-rock band from Los Angeles. A band that knew tragedy- Bob “The Bear” Hite died of a drug related heart attack at 36 in 1981- a decade earlier Al “Blind Owl” Wilson died of a drug overdose 1970 at 27.

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