Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)

"Jacob's Ladder"
Single by Huey Lewis and the News
from the album Fore!
B-side"The Heart of Rock & Roll" (Live)
ReleasedJanuary 1987
Recorded1986
GenreRock
Length3:33
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby
Producer(s)Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News singles chronology
"Hip to Be Square"
(1986)
"Jacob's Ladder"
(1987)
"I Know What I Like"
(1987)

"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby and recorded by Huey Lewis and the News. The song spent one week at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1987,[1] becoming the band's third and final number-one hit.

  1. ^ DeKnock, Jan (1987-03-13). "Huey Lewis & News Climb 'Jacob's Ladder' to the Top". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Company. Retrieved 2009-02-01.[dead link]