Sweet City Woman is a 1971 song by Canadian rock band The Stampeders

The Stampeders

The Stampeders are a Canadian rock trio, consisting of Rich Dodson, Ronnie King, and Kim Berly.-Career:The band formed in Calgary, Alberta in 1964 as The Rebounds....

. The song appeared on their debut album Against the Grain (retitled Sweet City Woman in the U.S.). The song features a banjo

Banjo

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

 as a primary instrument, which is also mentioned in the lyrics: "The banjo and me, we got a feel for singing."

Chart performance

The single spent four weeks as a #1 hit in Canada, and reached #8 in the U.S. charts. It also climbed to #1 on the Canadian country music

Country music

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 and Adult contemporary charts.

Awards

The band and song won numerous Juno Awards in 1972, including Best Single, Songwriter of the Year (guitarist Rich Dodson), Record Producer of the Year (Mel Shaw), and the band was named Canada's Top Group.

Chart (1971)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Singles	1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	8

Cover versions

The song has been covered

Cover version

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 by many musician

Musician

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s over the years, including:

• British band The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock group. Their single "Glad All Over" knocked The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK singles charts in January 1964: it eventually peaked at No.6 in the United States in April 1964.They were the second group of the British Invasion,...
  
   released a version in the U.K. while the Stampeders single was still in the charts.
• American country music artist Johnny Carver
  Johnny Carver
  Johnny Carver is an American country music artist. Between 1968 and 1977, he charted fifteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard country charts. His highest-charting single was a cover of Tony Orlando's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", a cover that reached #1 for him in 1974...
  
   covered the song in 1977. Carver's version peaked at #48 on the Billboard
  Billboard (magazine)
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  Hot Country Singles & Tracks
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   charts.
• Tompall & the Glaser Brothers
  Tompall & the Glaser Brothers
  Tompall & The Glaser Brothers was an American country music group composed of three brothers: Chuck, Jim, and Tompall Glaser, all of whom also had success in the 1970s as solo artists. Between 1960 and 1975, the trio recorded ten studio albums, and charted nine singles on the Billboard Hot Country...
  
   took the song to #34 on the same chart in 1980.
• Canadian country music band Jo Hikk
  Jo Hikk
  Jo Hikk is a Canadian country music group founded in Calgary, Alberta. This four-piece band is composed of brothers Kelly Sitter and Kenny Sitter , Al Doell and Don Jorgensen . Their first album, Ride, was re-released in early 2009...
  
   covered the song on their 2009 album Ride
  Ride (Jo Hikk album)
  Ride was the first album released by the band Jo Hikk. It was released by Landis Productions Ltd. in 2009. The album includes the hit singles "Sweet City Woman" and "My Kind of Radio." "Closer" was previously recorded by Thrasher Shiver on its self-titled debut and "It's Only Monday" was previously...
  
  .
• Rapper Kyprios
  Kyprios
  -Career:Formerly associated with the musical collective Sweatshop Union, he now records and performs exclusively as a solo artist. He appeared on all of Sweatshop Union's albums up to and including 2008's Water Street, as well as releasing two solo albums, Say Something in 2004 and 12:12 in...
  
   released "City Woman", a song which blended a rerecorded version of "Sweet City Woman" with original lyrics, in 2011.

Personnel

• Produced by Mel Shaw
• Engineered by Terry Brown
  Terry Brown (record producer)
  Terry Brown is a record producer involved in a variety of work, but most noted for his involvement with the Canadian rock band Rush and the British/Canadian band Cutting Crew. Brown is currently working with emerging Ottawa roots-rockers Ken Workman & The Union. He is referred to fondly by the band...
  
  
• Recorded at Toronto Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• Rich Dodson: Vocal, Banjo, Lead electric guitar
• Ronnie King: Bass
• Kim Berly: Drums