Choirgirl (song)

"Choirgirl"
Single by Cold Chisel
from the album East
B-side"Conversations" (live)
ReleasedNovember 1979
Recorded3–14 October 1979, Paradise Studios, Sydney
GenrePub rock[1]
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)Don Walker
Producer(s)Mark Opitz
Cold Chisel singles chronology
"Shipping Steel"
(1979)
"Choirgirl"
(1979)
"Cheap Wine"
(1980)

"Choirgirl" (also released as "Choir Girl" on subsequent releases) is a song by Australian rock band Cold Chisel, released as the lead single from their third studio album East (1980) in November 1979. A ballad written by Don Walker with an R&B-influenced melody,[2] the song marked the first time the band had recorded with producer Mark Opitz. It peaked at No. 14 in Australia on the Kent Music Report.

  1. ^ Bernard Zuel. "Cold Chisel review: 'Last stand', 30 years after the last one, still brings the house down". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax.
  2. ^ Michael Lawrence (1998). Showtime: The Cold Chisel Story. Belmont, Victoria: Michael Lawrence. ISBN 1-86503-118-6.