Favorite 70's One-Hit Wonders #4 - "The Boys are Back in Town."

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Thus far, we've had a little R&B, some funk, a punk poet went mainstream, and a little singer/songwriter action, so it just begs that classic rock would eventually enter the fray. I'm talking about my Favorite 70's One-Hit Wonders series, and #4, Thin Lizzy's classic, "The Boys are Back in Town. " Thin Lizzy is an Irish rock band that, in it's heyday, was led by the late vocalist/bassist Phil Lynott. The band formed in 1969 and hit big with their 1976 Certified Gold Record, Jailbreak, which boasted the band's hard-rocking hit, "The Boys are Back in Town." "The Boys are Back in Town," was a bit of a smash, reaching #12 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Unfortunately, it was Thin Lizzy's only appearance in the Top 40. (But what about the classic, "Jailbreak?" Interestingly, it never charted, at least not in the States, as far as I can tell.) (I'm using the rules from Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders: An act can only have appeared on the Top 40 of the Hot 100 once. Any sub-charts don't count, and neither do countries other than the States.)