Mansize Rooster

"Mansize Rooster"
Single by Supergrass
from the album I Should Coco
B-side"Sitting Up Straight"
Released6 February 1995 (1995-02-06)[1]
RecordedSawmills (Golant, England)
Length2:36
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Supergrass
Producer(s)Sam Williams
Supergrass singles chronology
"Caught By The Fuzz"
(1994)
"Mansize Rooster"
(1995)
"Lose It"
(1995)
Alternative cover
French version of the single cover

"Mansize Rooster" is a song by English rock band Supergrass, released as the second single from their debut album, I Should Coco (1995). It reached number 20 on the UK Singles Chart, remaining on the chart for three weeks.[2][3]

Like its predecessor "Caught by the Fuzz", "Mansize Rooster" was originally released in 1994 as a limited-run 7-inch vinyl-only release on Backbeat Records. There were two pressings of 500 copies on Backbeat; the first pressing was on lime green vinyl and the second pressing was on translucent grass-green vinyl. Both sides of the original Backbeat 7" feature the original demo versions and were subsequently re-recorded when the band signed to EMI/Parlophone Records later in 1994.[4]

It was played as Supergrass' first ever live television performance on The Word in 1995.[5] The song is used in the film Casper: A Spirited Beginning and is included in its soundtrack.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 4 February 1995. p. 35.
  2. ^ The Strange Ones Supergrass Site
  3. ^ Supergrass biography: beginnings, career, success Archived 24 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ YouTube - Supergrass-Mansize rooster