Shooting Me Down
1988 song by Chrome Molly
"Shooting Me Down" is a song by English rock band Chrome Molly, released by I.R.S. as a non-album single on 14 November 1988. The song was written by Slade members Jim Lea and Noddy Holder, and was produced by Lea.
Background
"Shooting Me Down" was originally written for Samantha Fox, whose label, Jive Records, approached Jim Lea and Noddy Holder (of the English rock band Slade) in 1987, asking them to provide a song for her upcoming second studio album, with Lea also to produce the track. The song was written, demoed and sent to Jive within a couple of weeks during April 1987 but, when Fox's latest single "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" began generating chart action in the UK in May, Jive quickly had her new album hastily packaged and ready for a July 1987 release. As a result, there was not enough time for Fox to record "Shooting Me Down" and, although Jive liked the track and wished to keep hold of it for the future, the singer never recorded it.
"Shooting Me Down" was then put aside and, according to the Birmingham Evening Mail, was intended to be recorded by Slade at a future date as their "comeback" single. However, with the band on hiatus at the time, the song ended up being given to Chrome Molly to record. In 1987, Chrome Molly expressed an interest in working with Lea and sent him some of their demo tapes, although no collaboration materialised as the band did not have a record deal. After signing to I.R.S. Records in 1988, they released their album Angst and two singles from it, "Take Me I'm Yours" and "Thanx for the Angst", but both failed to reach the top 100 of the UK Singles Chart. Wishing to make their commercial breakthrough, the band approached Lea in the summer of 1988 with a song which they intended to record as their next single.
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