Hell on Wheels (song)

Single infobox
Name = Hell on Wheels


Artist = Cher
from Album = Prisoner
B-side = "Git Down (12" Version)"
Released = October 15 1979
Format = 7" single
12" single
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Disco
Length = 5:31
Label = Casablanca
Writer = Bob Esty; Michele Aller
Producer = Bob Esty
Certification =
Reviews =
Chart Positions = * #59 (US)
Last single = "It's Too Late (To Love Me Now)"
(1979)
This single = "Hell on Wheels"
(1979)
Next single = " Holdin Out For Love "
(1979)"Hell on Wheels" is a song recorded by singer/actress Cher and was written by its producer Bob Esty and co-writer Michele Aller.

ong information

Hell on Wheels was used as the first international release from American singer/actress Cher's sixteenth studio album "Prisoner". Despite a worldwide commercial release, "Hell on Wheels" did not manage to achieve any success other than charting on the Billboard Hot 100 (at a disappointing #59), and peaking at #6 in Norway for over a month and #3 in France for a week.

The song received mostly positive reviews from critics including one where the song is described as, "an excellently produced follow-up dance single." The song has also received neutral/negative reviews like one which describes Hell on Wheels as, "hoping to cash in on the disco-roller skating craze that was sweeping the nation in 1979."

In 1979, Hell on Wheels was included in original soundtrack to the film, Roller Boogie.

Music video

Hell on Wheels is arguably Cher's first professional video. Some consider the videos for Take Me Home and Love & Pain to be her first professional clips, though these were lifted from her highly rated 1979 TV special "Cher...and Other Fantasies".

The video for Hell on Wheels was tough for Cher to shoot. She was required to skate down steep, mountainous roads while sporting a broken arm. In the video, Cher is roller skating and being followed by a huge truck driven by two men which use the maximum speed of the truck to catch up with her. Following this, Cher convinces many people with different types of transportation to follow and take a ride with her.

Hell on Wheels is one of the 1970's pioneer music videos to be produced in the MTV style before MTV itself existed. The video was premiered on the late night NBC television show "The Midnight Special". Promotional clips were also shown during a 1979 interview with Phil Donahue on "The Phil Donahue Show."

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