100 Ton Chicken

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100 Ton Chicken
Studio album by Chicken Shack
Released	October 1969[1]
Recorded	19 April – 11 May 1969
Studio	Morgan Sound Studios, Willesden, London,
Genre	Blues
Length	35:28
Label	Blue Horizon
Producer	Mike Vernon
Chicken Shack chronology
O.K. Ken? (1969) 100 Ton Chicken (1969) Accept (1970)

100 Ton Chicken is the third studio album by the blues band, Chicken Shack, released in 1969. This album was Paul Raymond's first album as a member of Chicken Shack, replacing Christine Perfect.^[2]

Unlike its predecessors, 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve and O.K. Ken?, 100 Ton Chicken did not reach the UK Albums Chart.^[3] AllMusic noted "Sorry, but this chicken laid a 20-ton rotten egg".^[2]

The entire album and the rest of the Chicken Shack sessions on Blue Horizon were made available on the CD compilation Chicken Shack - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2007). Several outtakes from the 100 Ton Chicken sessions were made available for the first time on this compilation. "Smartest Girl in the World" and "Hideaway" were both unpublished outtakes. "The Things You Put Me Through" was also an outtake but it had been released as the B side to the single "Tears in the Wind".

All songs written and composed by Stan Webb, except where noted.

^[2]

• Stan Webb – guitar, vocals
• Paul Raymond – keyboards, vocals
• Andy Sylvester – bass guitar
• Dave Bidwell – drums, congas, cowbell^[4]

• Mike Vernon – finger cymbals^[4]

• Producer – Mike Vernon
• Engineer – Mike Ross
• Studio – CBS
• Photography and design – Terence Ibbott^[5]