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List of 100-point games in college football
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In 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222 to 0.
In college football, games in which 100 points are scored by a single team are a rarity, especially since 1940; in lopsided games, several deterrents exist to prevent running up the score. Of current NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams, only Arizona, Bowling Green, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma and Tulsa have eclipsed 150 points in a game. Neglecting games in the early 1900s, the Houston Cougars are the only Division I FBS football team to score 100 points against another FBS team, against Tulsa in 1968. The most lopsided game in college football history occurred in a 1916 contest when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222–0.[1] King College (TN), now King University, scored 206 points against Lenoir in 1922 and the former St. Viator College (IL) put up 205 points against Lane in 1916.
On September 25, 1884, Yale defeated Dartmouth 113–0, becoming not only the first game where one team scored over 100 points but also first time one team scored over 100 points and the opposing team scored zero points.[2] The next week, Princeton outscored Lafayette by 140 to 0.[3]
It is rare for a team to have scored in a game when the opponent scored over 100 points, but several cases exist. One is the Rice–Southern Methodist game of 1916 when SMU scored an early field goal but Rice "came back" to win 146–3.
Early records are often incomplete and sometimes contradictory. Scores listed in the table below have been confirmed in at least two sources[4] except when there is a footnote to the score. A footnote by the date indicates a third reference source. The table includes not only scores from NCAA programs but also from those that compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and from games played before the advent of the NCAA or NAIA.
The November 23, 1968, meeting between the Houston Cougars and Tulsa Golden Hurricane holds the distinction of being the only football game between major football programs in the past 50 years in which a team scored 100 points. The 1968 Houston Cougars, led by coach Bill Yeoman, had introduced the veer offense two seasons prior and were known for scoring at will. Earlier in the 1968 season Houston played the University of Texas to a 20–20 tie, two weeks before the Longhorns began a nearly 3-year winning streak that included the 1969 National Championship.
Contents
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1 List of 100-point games
2 Breakdown of list
2.1 Team appearances on list
2.2 Games by decade
2.3 Least margin of victory
3 Notes
4 References
List of 100-point games[edit]
Team
Opponent
Score
Year
Albion River Rouge NTS 178–0 1919
Appalachian State Piedmont 115–0[5] 1936
Alabama Marion Military Institute 110–0 1922[6]
Arkansas State Central Arkansas 101–0 1917
Arizona New Mexico Military Institute 110–0 1921
Arizona Camp Harry Jones 167–0 1920
Arkansas Fourth District Normal[7] 100–0 1911
Austin College Daniel Baker College 109–0 1920
Baldwin–Wallace Kent State 118–0 1923
Baylor Hardin–Simmons 103–0 1917
Beloit Northern Illinois 115–0 1913
Bowling Green Findlay 151–0 1921
Butler Hanover 122–6[8] 1921
Butler Indiana State 101–0 1905
California Saint Mary's !St. Mary's (CA) 127–0 1920
Carlisle Indians Albright 100–0 1904
Central Oklahoma Oklahoma City 183–0 1916[9]
Central Oklahoma Oklahoma Baptist 157–0 1919
Central Oklahoma East Central (OK) 104–0 1921
Central State (Ohio) Lane 101-0 1989[10]
Centre Kentucky Military Institute 104–0 1917
Centre Howard (AL)[11] 120–0 1920
Centre Georgetown (KY) 103–0 1920
Chemawa Indians Pacific U. (OR)[12] 104–0[13] 1923
Chicago Great Lakes Naval Station 123–0 1919
Chicago Monmouth 108–0 1903
Cincinnati Transylvania 124–0 1912
Cincinnati Kentucky Wesleyan 115–0 1921
Clemson Guilford 122–0 1901
Coe Highland Park 115–0[14] 1914
Colgate RPI 107–0 1915
Colorado Regis 109–0 1905
Colorado Mines Colorado 103–0 1890
Connecticut Newport NTS 125–0 1949
Cornell Rochester 124–0 1889
Cornell Western Reserve 110–0 1921
Dayton Central Normal (IN) 161–0 1923
Defiance Findlay 118–0[15] 1921
Detroit Toledo 145–0 1917
Eastern Washington Spokane Univ. 114–0[16] 1914
Emporia (College of) Pittsburg Normal 107–0 1910
Emporia (College of) Olathe 105–0[13] 1914
Emporia State Friends 134–0 1912
Florida Florida Southern 144–0 1913
Fordham Washington (MD) 101–0 1920
Fort Hays State Salina All Stars 125–7[17] 1913
Fort Valley State Knoxville 106–0 1969
Georgia Alabama Presbyterian 108–0 1913
Georgia Dahlonega[18] 101–0[14] 1914
Georgia Locust Grove 101–0 1910
Georgia Tech Mercer 105–0 1914
Georgia Tech Cumberland 222–0 1916
Georgia Tech NC State 128–0 1918
Georgia Tech 11th Cavalry 123–0 1918
Georgia Tech Furman 118–0 1918
Harvard Exeter 158–0 1886
Harvard Wesleyan 110–0[19] 1887
Harvard Amherst 102–0 1888
Harvard Wesleyan 124–0 1891
Hawaii National Guard 101–0 1926
Hawaii Field Artillery 101–0 1926
Hendrix Draughon Practical Business Col. 112–0[20] 1912
Hendrix Henderson 128–0 1919
Houston Tulsa 100–6 1968
Idaho State Western Montana 111–0[21] 1931
Idaho State Western Montana 103–0[21] 1930
Idaho State Gooding (Idaho) 106–0[21] 1922
Illinois College Carthage 111–0[22] 1915
King (TN) Lenoir 206–0[23] 1922
Lehigh Penn State 106–0 1889
Louisiana Tech Clarke (MS) 100–0[24] 1922
Louisville Washington (TN) 100–0 1913
Marion Military Howard (AL)[11] 101–0[25] 1918
Marquette UW-Oshkosh 103–0 1917
Marshall Kentucky Wesleyan 101–0 1916
Memphis Somerville High School 115–0 1916
Michigan West Virginia 130–0 1904
Michigan Buffalo 128–0 1901
Michigan Michigan State 119–0 1902
Michigan Iowa 107–0 1902
Michigan State Olivet 109–0 1920
Michigan State Hillsdale 104–0 1904
Michigan State Kalamazoo 103–0 1928
Michigan State Ripon 100–0 1931
Millikin Indiana State 158–6 1920
Millikin Illinois State 107–0 1920
Minnesota Grinnell 102–0 1902
Minnesota Macalester 112–0 1903
Minnesota Grinnell 146–0 1904
Minnesota Twin Cities High School 107–0 1904
Mississippi SW Baptist 114–0[26] 1904
Mississippi Valley State Rust 101–0[27] 1956
Missouri School of Mines Kirksville Osteopaths 150–0[14] 1914
Missouri School of Mines Pittsburg Normal 104–0 1914
Montana Mt. St. Charles 133–0 1920
Montana Montana Tech 106–6 1924
Morehead State Rio Grande (OH) 104–0[28] 1941
Murray State Louisville 105–0 1933
Murray State Will Mayfield 119–6[29] 1928
Navy Ursinus 127–0 1918
Navy Colby 121–0 1919
Nebraska Haskell 119–0 1910
Nebraska Kearney State 117–0 1911
Nebraska Creighton 102–0 1905
Nebraska Nebraska Wesleyan 100–0 1917
Nevada College of Pacific (CA)[30] 134–0 1919
Nevada Mare Island Marines 102–0 1919
New Mexico Northern Arizona 108–0 1916
New Mexico State 2nd Cavalry-Fort Bliss 116–0[31] 1912
New Mexico State New Mexico Mines 108–0[31] 1932
New Mexico State New Mexico 110–3 1917
NC State Hampton Roads 100–0 1919
North Central Lewis Institute 116–0[32] 1915
North Dakota State Wahpeton Indians 123–0[33] 1912
North Dakota State Flandreau Indians 105–0[33] 1903
North Park North Central 104–32[32] 1968
Northern Illinois Wheaton (IL) 114–7 1912
Northwestern State (LA) Monroe High School (LA) 134–0[34] 1915
Notre Dame American Medical 142–0 1905
Notre Dame Rose Poly 103–0 1914
Ohio State Oberlin 128–0 1916
Ohio Wesleyan Miami (OH) 104–0 1891
Oklahoma Kingfisher 179–0 1917[35]
Oklahoma Kingfisher 157–0 1919[35]
Oklahoma SW Oklahoma 140–0 1916
Oklahoma Oklahoma Baptist 107–0 1916[35]
Oklahoma Kingfisher 104–0 1911[35]
Oklahoma Arkansas 103–0 1918[35]
Oklahoma NW Oklahoma 102–0 1915[35]
Oklahoma NW Oklahoma 101–0 1913[35]
Oklahoma State Phillips 134–0 1914
Oklahoma State Phillips 112–3[36] 1913
Oklahoma State SW Oklahoma 117–0 1916
Oregon Puget Sound 115–0 1910
Pacific U. (OR)[12] Pacific College[12] 118–0[13] 1923
Penn State Lebanon Valley 109–7 1920
Pittsburg State (KS) Fourth District Normal[7] 150–0 1912
Portland State Delaware State 105–0 1980[37]
Princeton Lafayette 140–0 1884
Princeton Johns Hopkins 108–0[38] 1885
Princeton Johns Hopkins 104–0 1888
Princeton Virginia 115–0 1890
Rice SMU 146–3 1916
Rockford Trinity Bible 105–0 2003
Saint Louis !St. Louis Blackburn 104–0[14] 1914
St. Viator Lane College (IL) 205–0[39] 1916
San Jose State University of Mexico 103–0 1949
Sewanee Florence State 101–0 1912[40]
Southern Bishop (TX) 105–0[41] 1952
Southern Illinois International Univ. Arts & Sci. 118–0[42] 1914
Southern Miss Smith County High School 113–0 1921
Southwestern Louisiana[43] Patterson High School 107–6 1918
S. F. Austin Center High School 120–0[44] 1923
S. F. Austin College of Marshall (TX) 108–0[44] 1926
Susquehanna Lyken AC 104–0[45] 1902
Syracuse Manhattan 144–0 1904
Temple Blue Ridge 110–0 1927
Tennessee American 104–0 1905
Tennessee Cumberland 101–0 1915
Tennessee King 101–0 1912
Tennessee Carson-Newman 101–0 1915
Texas A&M Daniel Baker 110–0[46] 1920
Texas Tech Wayland Baptist 120–0 1925
Third District Normal[47] Will Mayfield 110–0[48] 1916
Third District Normal[47] DeSoto Athletic Club 107–0[48] 1916
Tulsa Missouri School of Mines 117–0 1916
Tulsa Oklahoma Baptist 152–0 1919
Tulsa Saint Gregory's !St. Gregory's 121–0 1920
Tulsa NE Oklahoma 151–0 1920
Utah Fort Douglas 107–0 1904
Utah Fort Douglas 129–0 1905
Utah College of Idaho 105–3 1923
Utah State Crimsons 100–0 1907
Utah State Idaho State 136–0 1919
Valparaiso Lewis 110–0[49] 1923
Vanderbilt Bethel 105–0 1912
Vanderbilt Henderson-Brown 101–0 1915
Vanderbilt Maryville 100–3 1912
Virginia Randolph-Macon 136–0 1890
Virginia Fort Monroe 102–0 1894
Virginia Military Hampden-Sydney 136–0 1920
Xavier Lees 132–0 1927
Xavier Fort Thomas 121–0 1919
Washington Whitworth 100–0 1913
Washington Whitman 120–0 1919
Washington Willamette 108–0 1925
Washington & Jefferson Grove City 100–0[50] 1913
Washington & Jefferson Dickinson 105–0[14][50] 1914
Washington & Lee Rose Poly 103–0[14] 1914
West Liberty State Cedarville 137–0[51] 1932
Western Michigan Hillsdale 103–0[52] 1918
Whittier UCLA 103–0 1920
Wisconsin Wisconsin-Whitewater 106–0 1890
Wisconsin–Stevens Point St. Norbert 108–0[53] 1921
Wyoming Northern Colorado 103–0 1949
Yale Dartmouth 113–0 1884[54]
Yale Wesleyan 136–0 1886[55]
Yale Wesleyan 106–0 1887[56]
Yale Wesleyan 105–0 1888[56]
Breakdown of list[edit]
As a supplement to the list, the following summarizations are provided.
Team appearances on list[edit]
Oklahoma leads the pack of most 100+ point victories with 8, followed by Georgia Tech with 5. Wesleyan holds the distinction of losing the most 100+ point games with 5, where Kingfisher College and Oklahoma Baptist are second with three each.
A total of 15 teams appear on both the winning and losing side of 100+ point games: Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho State, Louisville, Marion Military Inst, Michigan State, Missouri School of Mines (now Missouri S&T), NC State, New Mexico, North Central, Northern Illinois, Pacific, Penn State, Tulsa, and Virginia.
Games by decade[edit]
The 1920 season produced the most 100 point games in a single year with 16, but the 1910s proved to be the decade with the most 100 point games with 92. From 1910 to 1929, a total of 139 games were played with 100 points scored by one side. This is 35% of all such games being in this 20-year period.
Decade
# games
Percent of total
1880s 12 6.03
1890s 7 3.52
1900s 24 12.06
1910s 92 46.23
1920s 47 23.62
1930s 6 3.02
1940s 4 2.01
1950s 2 1.01
1960s 3 1.51
1970s 0 0.00
1980s 1 0.50
1990s 0 0.00
2000s 1 0.50
2010s 0 0.00
Least margin of victory[edit]
In only one game did the losing team score more than 7 points, with North Central scoring 32 points in 1968 and North Park winning by "only" 72 points.
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Davis, Parke H. (1916-10-15). "Yellow Jackets-Cumberland Score Was Record One; Tops the List According to Statistics Compiled Showing All Scores Past the Century Mark". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. pp. A3.
Jump up ^ DeLassus, David. "Yale Yearly Results (1880–1884)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
Jump up ^ DeLassus, David. "Princeton Yearly Results (1880–1884)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
Jump up ^ The sources were usually The Football Thesaurus and the football media guide of one of the corresponding schools.
Jump up ^ Appalachian State Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ "1922 Season" (PDF). University of Alabama Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
^ Jump up to: a b Now Missouri State.
Jump up ^ Butler University Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ii/miaa/central_oklahoma/most_points.php
Jump up ^ "Trailing 101-0, Team Calls It a Game". Los Angeles Times.
^ Jump up to: a b Now Samford.
^ Jump up to: a b c Not to be confused with the University of the Pacific in California.
^ Jump up to: a b c The Football Thesaurus, 1954 edition.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Statistical Review of 1914, Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide, 1914, p. 289.
Jump up ^ Findlay records have the score as 119–0.
Jump up ^ Eastern Washington 2010 Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Fort Hays State 2012 Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Now North Georgia.
Jump up ^ The Football Thesaurus has the score as 118–0.
Jump up ^ Hendrix football results, http://www.hendrixwarriors.com/custompages/Football/History/FootballResults.pdf (retrieved 2014 Nov. 6) .
^ Jump up to: a b c Idaho State University Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Carthage College Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2010-11-05. (retrieved 2010 Nov. 4) and the Lenoir-Rhyne Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Louisiana Tech Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Samford 2009 Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ The Football Thesaurus lists score as 115–0.
Jump up ^ Mississippi State 2010 Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Morehead State 2008 Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ 2011 Murray State Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Not to be confused with the Oregon school now known as Pacific University, or another Oregon school formerly known as Pacific College, now George Fox.
^ Jump up to: a b New Mexico State Football Media Guide.
^ Jump up to: a b North Central College Football Record Book (http://northcentralcollege.edu/Documents/athletics/fb_record_book.pdf).
^ Jump up to: a b 2008 NDSU Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ 2011 Northwestern State Football Media Guide.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Game Points Scored Records". SoonerStats.com. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
Jump up ^ Oklahoma State Football Media Guide, but score not in The Football Thesaurus.
Jump up ^ Portland State A 105–0 Winner, Ocala Star-Banner, November 10, 1980.
Jump up ^ Princeton records have score at 10–0.
Jump up ^ Chicago Tribune, Oct. 15, 1916.
Jump up ^ Goens, Mike (February 24, 1989). "What it wasn't was football for early Lions". TimesDaily. Florence, Alabama. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
Jump up ^ Southern University 2007 Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Southern Illinois Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Now Louisiana–Lafayette.
^ Jump up to: a b Stephen F. Austin State University Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Susquehanna University Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ "Texas A&M:50+ Delta Points Scored In A Game". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
^ Jump up to: a b Now Southeast Missouri State.
^ Jump up to: a b Southeast Missouri State Football Media Guide.
Jump up ^ Valparaiso 2009 Football Media Guide.
^ Jump up to: a b "Presidents Football 2009" (PDF). Washington & Jefferson College. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
Jump up ^ Football at Cedarville?, December 12, 2010.
Jump up ^ Hillsdale records have the score as 102–0.
Jump up ^ "UW Stevens Point Football records" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-05.
Jump up ^ Yale Game by Game Results, 1880 Archived 2010-02-13 at the Wayback Machine., College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved March 14, 2009.
Jump up ^ William Wallace (November 14, 1998). "Football: Big Plays Reside at a Small College". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
^ Jump up to: a b Yale Game by Game Results 1885, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved March 14, 2009.
References[edit]
College Football Data Warehouse (http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com)
ESPN College Football Encyclopedia
The Football Thesaurus: 77 years on the American Gridiron, Deke Houlgate (author), Los Angeles: Nash-U-Nal Publishing Company, 1954.
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Year of the Cat (song)
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"Year of the Cat"
Single by Al Stewart
from the album Year of the Cat
B-side
"Broadway Hotel"
Released
July 1976 (1976-07) (UK)
October 1976 (US)
Recorded
Abbey Road Studios, London, England, January 1976
Genre
Soft rock[1]
Length
6:40 (album)
4:38 (single)
Label
RCA (UK)
Janus (US)
Songwriter(s)
Al Stewart
Peter Wood
Producer(s)
Alan Parsons
Al Stewart singles chronology
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"Year of the Cat" is a single by singer-songwriter Al Stewart, released in July 1976. The song is the title track of his 1976 album Year of the Cat, and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1977. Although Stewart's highest charting single on that chart was 1978's "Time Passages",[2] "Year of the Cat" has remained Stewart's signature recording, receiving regular airplay on both classic rock and folk rock stations.
Contents
[hide]
1 Recording
2 Structure
3 Chart performance
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
4 Cover versions
5 Appearances in media
6 References
7 External links
Recording[edit]
The track is noted for its lengthy instrumental sections— over four minutes of the 6:40 album version is instrumental, including a long, melodic series of solos that encompasses cello, violin, piano, acoustic guitar, distorted electric guitar, synthesizer and saxophone. The transition from acoustic guitar to electric to saxophone was initiated by Tim Renwick. The acoustic lead is played by Peter White with Tim Renwick then taking the electric lead. Parsons had Phil Kenzie add the saxophone part of the song — and by doing so transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts.
According to Al Stewart on an episode of In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an episode to the making of the Year of the Cat album), Phil Kenzie was watching a movie and didn't want to be bothered with going to do session work; but as a favour to Alan Parsons he went to Abbey Road, and the sax solos were recorded in one or two takes, after which Phil left the studio to go back home and watch the rest of his movie. Al also told Redbeard that he didn't like the sax solos at first but grew to like them.
Shorter versions of the track can be found on some European 7" single formats. Though both of the discs carry the same label and catalogue number (RCA PB 5007), the French single features the A-side track clocking in at 4:30, while the Italian one features an even shorter mix of just 3:30 so that the lengthy instrumental intro is completely missing.
Co-written by Peter Wood, "Year of the Cat" is a narrative song written in the second person whose protagonist, a tourist, is visiting an exotic market when a mysterious silk-clad woman appears and takes him away for a gauzy romantic adventure. On wakening the next day beside her, the tourist realizes, with equanimity, that his tour bus has left without him and he has lost his ticket.
The Cat is one of the twelve signs of the Vietnamese zodiac. It corresponds to that of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. At the time of the song's release, the most recent Year of the Rabbit had been 11 February 1975 to 30 January 1976; thus, the song was recorded in the Vietnamese Year of the Cat.
The song "Year of the Cat" began as "Foot of the Stage", a song written by Stewart in 1966 after seeing a performance by comedian Tony Hancock whose patter about "being a complete loser" who might as well "end it all right here" drew laughs from the audience: Stewart's intuitive response that Hancock was in genuine despair led to the writing of "Foot of the Stage".[3] It was the melody for this never-recorded song which Stewart set the lyrics of "Year of the Cat" to in 1975: pianist Peter Wood was given a co-writing credit on the song in recognition of his piano riff on the recorded track.
Subsequent to the entry of the single on the US charts, the track afforded Stewart a major hit in Australia (#13), Belgium/Flemish Region (#7), Canada (#3), Italy (#5), the Netherlands (#6) and New Zealand (#15). In the UK, where the single had been overlooked on its original July 1976 release, it gained renewed interest which was evident in a Top 40 chart entry although interest levelled off outside the Top 30 with a #31 peak in January 1977. "Year of the Cat" would remain Stewart's sole chart single in his native UK.
Structure[edit]
The song is mainly written in E minor / G major, with the electric guitar solo in the bridge in D major.
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1976-77)
Peak
position
Australia 13
Belgium 7
Canada RPM Top Singles 3
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary [4] 6
Italy 5
Netherlands 6
New Zealand 15
UK 31
US Billboard Hot 100 8
US Billboard Adult Contemporary 8
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1977)
Rank
Australia [5] 82
Canada [6] 42
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [7] 92
Cover versions[edit]
Hector recorded the song with his own Finnish lyrics as "Kissojen Yö" on his 1978 album Kadonneet Lapset. The Spanish rendering "El Año Del Gato" was recorded by Érica García for her 2001 album release El Cerebro.
A cover version by F. R. David appeared on the 1999 album Words – '99 Version.
The experimental band Psapp recorded a version for the compilation Take It Easy: 15 Soft Rock Anthems in 2006, which contained cat sound effects.
In 2012, Washington DC based trio Volta Bureau released a remixed instrumental version entitled "Alley Cat".[8]
Appearances in media[edit]
Another version of the song, also performed by Stewart, appears on Volume 1 of the Cities 97 Sampler.
The song appears in the film version of Running with Scissors (2006) and in the film Radiofreccia (1998), the directorial debut of Italian rock star Luciano Ligabue.
In 2013, the song was used during the credits of "The Dinner" episode of HBO show Hello Ladies.
The song is used frequently as bumper music on the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM.
The song also appears in the German film Die Katze.[9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Year Of The Cat - Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 603.
Jump up ^ Dave Thompson, 1000 Songs that Rock Your World, p. 142, Krause Publications, Iola, WI (2011). ISBN 978-1-4402-1422-6.
Jump up ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. March 5, 1977. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
Jump up ^ "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
Jump up ^ Schweitzer, Ally (2012-04-17). "Defected Label To Release Volta Bureau's "Alley Cat" - Arts Desk". Washingtoncitypaper.com. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
Jump up ^ "The Cat". 21 January 1988 – via www.imdb.com.
External links[edit]
"Year of the Cat" at songfacts.com
For a sample of the lyrics to “The Year of the Cat” see Red Karaoke.
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Studio albums
Bed-Sitter Images (1967)
Love Chronicles (1969)
Zero She Flies (1970)
Orange (1972)
Past, Present and Future (1973)
Modern Times (1975)
Year of the Cat (1976)
Time Passages (1978)
24 Carrots (1980)
Russians & Americans (1984)
Last Days of the Century (1988)
Famous Last Words (1993)
Between the Wars (1995)
Down in the Cellar (2000)
A Beach Full of Shells (2005)
Sparks of Ancient Light (2008)
Live albums
Live/Indian Summer (1981)
Rhymes in Rooms (1992)
Uncorked (2009)
Singles
"The Elf" (1966)
"Bedsitter Images" (1967)
"Electric Los Angeles Sunset" (1970)
"The News From Spain" (1971)
"Amsterdam" (1972)
"You Don't Even Know Me" (1972)
"Terminal Eyes" (1973)
"Nostradamus" (1974)
"Carol" (1975)
"Year of the Cat" (1976)
"On The Border" (1977)
"Time Passages" (1978)
"Song on the Radio" (1979)
"Midnight Rocks" (1980)
"Mondo Sinistro" (1980)
"Paint By Numbers" (1980)
"Lori, Don't Go Right Now" (1984)
"King of Portugal" (1988)
"Don't Forget Me" (1993)
"Class of '58" (2005)
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