Cool for Cats (song)

"Cool for Cats"
Single by Squeeze
from the album Cool for Cats
B-side"Model"
Released9 March 1979
Recorded1978
Genre
Length3:39 (album version)
3:10 (single version)
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • John Wood
  • Squeeze
Squeeze singles chronology
"Goodbye Girl"
(1978)
"Cool for Cats"
(1979)
"Up the Junction"
(1979)

"Crying in My Sleep"
(1991)

"Cool for Cats"
(1992)

"Third Rail"
(1993)
Music video
"Cool for Cats" on YouTube

"Cool for Cats" is a song by English rock band Squeeze, released as the second single from their album of the same name. The song features a rare lead vocal performance from cockney-accented Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford, one of the only two occasions he sang lead on a Squeeze single A-side (the other was 1989's "Love Circles"). The song, slightly edited from the album track, peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1979, making "Cool for Cats" one of the band's biggest hits.

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