The Night Chicago Died

[MegaCookiemonster134]

its better on cd

[FuFuTheBat]

20 peoples doors didn't burst open wide.... Lames. I love this song<3

[nightneko2010]

Listened to this over the weekend, and it's been stuck in my head since. I love it though. My mom was telling me how she used to listen to it on an 8 track XD while we were listening to it on an mp3 player. Oh, how the times have changed.

[PublicProfanity]

I love this song....



[Hannahjg21]

I love this song I'm 13 and I've been listening to it since I was 3

[miwar2468]

What?



[auderymarie1997]

i love this song! and im 13

[Osbert50]

When my dog Sage heard this song, she'd go nuts too. She'd just howel throughout this whole song. I hope she's having fun in heaven. <3 love you Sagie xoxo

[Klasenss]

nananananaaanaanaaaaa lool

[bluegreen1138]

Prohibition=violence

[supermom46372]

wow..this song gives me chills..like in a good way..i guess it's the words..i have always liked this song tho

[Kimvichan]

Suju did their own for this

[poshi12]

I was exposed to this music groin up in the 90s.i'm so happy I found this song again

[Sephi65567]

I'm 15 and I've loved this song since I was little! My dad played it all the time when I was younger! :)

[TheGrace312]

This is my fav song

[YaesuFT736R]

Thanks for this. Was big in '74.

[TexasSky]

According to the musician who wrote the song, the song is a fictional story of a shootout between Al Capone's men and members of the Chicago police department. The writer is Brittish and loved old ganster movies.

[giovannigiomedina]

Love the song, but it has to be about a fictional story cause its not possible for chicago to die.

[NecroStudios]

@giovannigiomedina It's an expression, dummeh.

[samsamsammysam1]

My Dad used to be a cop and one day he was going to tell me a story soo he started like this:

(My Dad)Back when Daddy was a cop-

(Me) *singing* On the East side of Chicago!!! Back in the USA!!! Back of the good ol' days!!!

He was all confused at first.....

And then me my Dad and my step mom all broke out into song!

Yeah. It was epic.

XD

[starclimber16]

lov it. classics rule

[Thedevee123]

same with me GrenadeHater1!!!

[canadianHavoc]

GO CANUCKS!

[NecroStudios]

@canadianHavoc Canucks lost. c:

[MrBarelylethal]

@NecroStudios yep, that's gonna haunt us.

[GrenadeHater1]

haha lol im only 15 n love this type of music i blame my parents for that...but i dont blame them i thank them...music like is just incredible! :)

[2171yelyah]

@GrenadeHater1 dude, who cares how old you are! if you like this music then just listen to it! Why do people think that just because they are "young" they can't just enjoy this music with out saying they are 12 or 15, it's really annoying!

[ILiveandLoveSilently]

@2171yelyah Totally. You don't have to be 40 to love Metallica and Bin Jovi. You can be whatever age and still like good music. There is no age involved with music.

[ILiveandLoveSilently]

@2171yelyah Shit. BON Jovi. Fuck -_-

[BESTIACRUEL8]

@2171yelyah relax guy they're just kids

[Amtrak504]

@GrenadeHater1 same with me, but it was one of my older sisters

[hancas12]

i love this song 

[hansdurango]

Wow, is all that can be said for such a great song.

[rob4041]

great song great song bring back memories from the good old days

[volito18]

@nikes62 please belive i love this song thats y i got happy wen they played it in that 70's show

[biguy1994]

love this song most ppl dont apreciate older music now a days

[moms78vette]

I am happy that I was born in 1956 and enjoyed the best part of Americana. the late 60's and all of the 70's. Along with Disco.

[volito18]

i finally remember the name of this song thanks to that 70's show lol

[Nikes62]

@volito18 we don't care where you heard it, just appreciate it for great art. They don't make 'em like they used to!

[Kn0wY0urPlac3]

good song xD

we had to listen to it in history class O.O

[whygod1105]

The dirty 30's...

[Ganymede1moon]

This song is soooooo catchy. I smile every time I hear this song :D

[motelcalifornia]

The night Blago's career died. LOL

[MrEddythezombie]

@motelcalifornia good one

[hollisterdancers3]

i was born in 1997, and i <3 this song(:

[flowerMZ3]

i love how they called it a "hoodlum gang". that just makes me smile XD

[goji2099]

Great song, but completely fictitious. There was no large shoot out with Capone and the police on the East Side. Closest we have to such a large battle on the streets of Chicago was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which was an extremely one sided battle in one of Chicago's most infamous Gang Wars.

But who cares about historical accuracy? This song is a blast, and manages to create an image of Gangster Era Chicago, enough to make you actually want to learn about it.

[KinGZombiEKilleR90]

Who sings this? This is badass!

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

The 2nd of 4 U.K hits (not 1 Hit Wonders like most people think), this there 2nd hit & release, getting to number 3 on 4th-May-74, there 1st & biggest being Billy Don't Be A Hero (U.K #1-23rd-Feb-74), the other 2 were The Black Eyed Boy's (#11-24th-Aug-74) & We've Got the Whole World In Our Hands (The Nottingham Forest Football team song-#24-4th-March-78). Not historically correct as Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years for Tax Evasion & 100 cops were never killed, a lot were on his pay roll.

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[Kathryn285]

I have no idea why, but this has become my feel good song lately, even though the words aren't particularly happy... but who can resist the clapping and the "nananananana"ing??

[chatanwarrior]

love the classics

[luemas22]

i love this song cuz i love the mob so ya i think it my grandfater was a don in the cleaveland mob

[cocainine]

i like this tune a lot, i remember it from being young, and you've done a good lyrical video to it, but I can't believe you missed the TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK bit, but you did get the nananaanananaannanaaananaa bit so overall KUDOS

[deadmanwalking360]

I LOVE this song born 1994 but Its a great song

[CuteYetiTv]

ALCAPONE AND THE MAFIA OF CHICAGO RULE!

[MrEddythezombie]

@CuteYetiTv HELL YEAH!!!!!!

[CuteYetiTv]

@MrEddythezombie yep!

[ringettegal1]

I know this song off by heart when I was four!

I never understood why people looked at me wierd when I sung it?

I gusse I know now!

GREAT SONG!!!

[ilovenickj1995]

i didnt understand wat he ment by The Night Chicago Died but now i know! BTW::: <3 this song

[KatyKakle]

i cant listen to it i HAVE TO SING ALONG!!!!!

[SongGirl981]

@KatyKakle me too!

[150booyadragon]

i listened to this song everytime time teh canucks played chicago for stanley cup. but i think it jinxed teh canucks more then chicago xD

[Mrbigmouth12345]

awesome song!!!!!

[Letherius8]

the lyrics are wrong it is ''and he called his gang to war with the forces of the law" Not ''against the forces of the law"

[missgegela]

one of the best songs right here

[Cloudess1995]

I remember my sisters ex-boyfriend Pat showing us this song. I fell in love with it instantly. This song will always be one of my top favorites!

[akabanelover3]

classic

marvelous

[swampmarshy]

OMG, I remember when Paper lace released this in the 70's. It was great. I can even remember dancing to it with a fine young lady at the school dance. The memories are great.

[antonherr]

lol loser

[maesluvr]

Al Capone!!!! O.O He is my new third hero. :)

[karuguara]

Hey what's up with you? he was a killer.

[maesluvr]

i know he was a killer but still he is still my third hero. ^_^ Im just crazy like that!

[150booyadragon]

@maesluvr AL OWNS! :)

[maesluvr]

@150booyadragon  :D Hell Ya!!

[halonasaa]

This is really good.

[Namtrosh1101]

i love the song but I can't find the original 1970's version of it,if I'm thinking right this is the re-production.

[beatrivaso]

I have the original 70´s paste in Spanish but itself not as to rise it this

[cmb789789]

I luv this song

i listen to this song all summer

[MatthewCVR]

Talk about HQ.

[misselizabethkidd]

I love this song! Thanks for the uplaod. =]]

[angel15chick]

hey man. im naked!! D

[smvideos980]

great quality

[xXxDeadxxInsidexXx]

i use to listen to diz song all da time

i love it

^.^

[davidlee110]

ill going make a video about it right now

[davidlee110]

WTF TheRequire

Your Reported!

[davidlee110]

im from southbend i there is a song call

The night southbend died

[maesluvr]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Thanx 4 the upload! I luv this song!

[PatChaseProduction]

score 1 for chicago, Ha new york you dont have a song called the night that new york died and if you do it sucks and your city didnt have alcapone ,.... wait thats a good thing but who wants a white gangster who sold alchol during prohibitionand got arrested for not paying taxes. and for all if you noobs who dont know what prohibtion is, it is a time when the eighteenth amendment banned alchol from the early 1920s

to the early 1930's and got stoped by 21 amend

i know so much and im only 13

[maesluvr]

Holy Crap! u no more than me!!! & im 15! I should do more home work...

[actsnoblemartin]

I love this song!, and i was born in 1980, how lucky you were all to have this song, the music we have for the most part,is garbage.

I have to look back to 90's alternative rock, about the only good thing of the 90's

[truckermad2k9]

@actsnoblemartin back like every one dressed in grunge grunge was like the most top rock music in the 90s but i love this song to i song this this song with a 12 string guitar in front of e holl 6th fourm 2 weeks ago 

[birdbath7]

Sang this yesterday in karaoke with a Mrs. Al Capone Costume complete with an Al Capone poster. I'm granddaughter of bootleggers for Capone on "East" side of Chicago.

[thth0819]

this song is the shit

[daveasan]

good stuff,, i still have the 45,, still sounds good.

[ScarletHeartFire]

Angrymobleader's Version is Better.

[mileyfanatic10]

my teacher had us listen to this song today!

[lauraslover]

why? the event in this song never really happend. your teacher knows that right?

the group who wrote this song wasnt even from the U.S. they wer british

[rcg0919]

this song really happen sighs..

[lauraslover]

no. this never happend. paper lace isnt even an american band, and this event is fictional

[omega311888]

even so

 its still a great song :O)

[lauraslover]

i never said it wasnt a great song. im jus sayn it never really happend

[bagacoofy]

so this is fake (I thougth this really happend)

[lauraslover]

nope, actually most people from chicago say there is no east side of chicago, its the lake.

and paper lace the group who sang this song wuz british, not even from the U.S. at all

[Newkingofxland]

Acutally, you're wrong. There actually is an East Side Chicago. It's on the southeast corner of the city. If you ever take the skyway in from the south you go right through it. You're wrong about the killings too. This song may refer to the St. Valentine's day massacre, when Capone had seven opposing italians on the south side discarded. There were more similar situations.

[lauraslover]

even if you are right paper lace is still a band from london, england. making this song false. its still a good song, jus the story it tells cant be and is not real

[Newkingofxland]

Acutally, you're wrong. There actually is an East Side Chicago. It's on the southeast corner of the city. If you ever take the skyway in from the south you go right through it. You're wrong about the killings too. This song may refer to the St. Valentine's day massacre, when Capone had seven opposing german/irish on the north side discarded. There were more similar situations.

[Newkingofxland]

made a couple changes :)

[dancelover411]

it was actually in cicero

[iamthepig]

Sooooo 1974, great times.

[spaceace40]

Somebody please upload the vid of this song...i have seen it, so i know it's out there somewhere. I will die with a smile on my face if i find it.

[jmta1974]

cool song!!!!

[ribicoff]

The second night Chicago died was August 28, 1968. "With George McGovern as president of the United States, we wouldn't have to have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago."

[meowzer13]

I love this song!

[xxwh0ah45]

whoah this is a really old song. its older then my dad i think!

[LyricLover420]

Geez, I was little when this came out...are you trying to say people my age are OLD xxwh0ah45???

And for the rest-it's a song, not a history lesson!!! Great song though! Thanx 4 putting it up karter24-haven't heard it since my record player died...

[meowzer13]

OMG! thank you!!! it isn't a history lesson, and it's a great song!

[Jacob61913]

i dot really care 'pierreTheloin because this is a good song and i like and its going to be on my ipod

[wintertwister]

This is a stupid song. They could have picked a different shootout that was real. Capone owned the police.

[alamokid40]

The City considers Lake Michigan as the eastern border of Chicago-that is where the city stops-anything W of the lake is either North, South or West. Neighborhood names don't matter.

Oh BTW-the guys who wrote had never been to Chicago-all they knew about the city was from gangster movies.

[PierreTheLion]

Another funny mistake about this song...it was inspired by the St. Valentines Day Massacre, which was obviously in February, (not summer) and was between his Italian gang and Bugs Moran's Irish gang. No cops were involved.

[daysed]

its called artistic license. like it for what it is, they weren't trying to change history, just write a damn good song

[alamokid40]

Al Capone lived on the East Side at 7244 SOUTH Prarie Street and the area over there is a neighborhood-not an actual side. My uncle is a retired CPD lieutenant and worked that area for several years.

And in fact the "easternmost area" of Chicago is called South Shore-part of the area actually juts into Lake Michigan.

On the city maps that is SE-not east.

[daysed]

shut the fuck up asshole

[PierreTheLion]

whoa, was your dad a member of Paper Lace or something?

[daysed]

I gotta say, lol. You did make me laugh out loud with that one Pierre

[PierreTheLion]

The biggest waste of a great idea for a song, ever The chorus was very good but they f'ed this song up bad.

[1337cole1337]

damn im 13 and i think this is some gangster shit

[jacobstrauss]

great song

[TheRequire]

gangsta as fuck

[imthegoodtwin93]

and you would know how...?

[TheRequire]

go fuck yourself

[PampersPete]

There IS an East Side of Chicago. Al Capone lived there.17 miles south of downtown between the Calumet and the ILL-IND border.

[alamokid40]

Cool video and song......And there is no "East Side" per se-that is Lake Michigan. There is the North Side, the West Side and the South Side.

[PierreTheLion]

Off the Calumet River by where Capone lived

[alamokid40]

Techinically you are right.....but that is considered by the City of Chicago as SE.

[ametllet]

A la meva mare li encanta aquesta cançó. Gracies per posar-la.

Thank's

[Connor9449]

Lol you put at the start "The Nght Chicago Died". I love this song. It sounds like it switched tracks at the start....

[Nexttothem]

Well done!

[seanbigmac]

Chicago's east side is downtown, duhhh!

[imthegoodtwin93]

omg i absolutely love this song. it's my favorite!!

[oksmile]

Thanks for putting this up.Bring back memories.

Hard to come by.

[JimR541]

There is no "East Side" of Chiacgo. Only North and South.

[chern7]

wtf!

[jimbobimbobilly]

My head won't stop bobbing to the beat!

[7beers]

Has it stopped yet?

[johnnyozz]

Awesome dude!

[educatedhick]

i love this song <3

[teamcuba2000]

I'm lovin' it... my cousin played lead guitar! his name is Robert Vaughan.. hero. Love you Michael LOL :-)

[Polaris912b]

I remember this from a K-Tel album from 35 years ago. Sigh. So good to hear it again..way to go!

[iamthepig]

It was first released on the Bus Stop label. What label you ask?!

[ReinRamm]

Thank you for the great memories!

[vinylman4533]

I still have my 45 of this!

[lebenswasser]

Me too.

[Perranporth]

I wonder if any American groups accordingly released a song called 'The Night Hull Died'?

[indulgences]

And I asked someone who said, Bout a hundred Cops are Dead !

[reinamariposa]

I love the song...

[hibris]

me encanta,escucho esta canción desde que nací, mi padre se compró el vinilo cuando tenía 14 añicos

[circlex2]

man im only 15 but this song is kick ass

[queeniac]

love the song listened to it all the time when i found it on my mothers 70's strike back tape tons more were on it though.kiss kiss darling!

[floydforever]

Great song! Heard this song more than 20 years ago! Thanks for sharing!

[RockStrongo]

anybody have when conan sang this with john c reilly?

[albertodf1234]

actually there's a perfomance of this song by paper lace.I remember very well. if you have seen the time life 70's paid programm you'll see a fragment of that perfomance! ... maybe someday we can watch that gem..

[theresahaines16]

Wow...I have not heard this song in more than 20 years! Oh, how I use to listen to this song over and over again when I was a little girl...thanks for sharing this great song.

[Raschig]

Great song! I love the lyrics! Raschig

[geoliz]

I like that song :)

[karter24]

ye si know i for an i at the begining