Gimme Your Money Please


"Gimme Your Money Please" is the debut single by the Canadian rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive. It was written by Fred Turner, who also sings the lead vocal. It appears as the first track on their 1973 debut album Bachman–Turner Overdrive. It was also the first single from the album, as a double A-side with "Little Gandy Dancer". The song is about someone getting mugged, with the victim thinking "wasn't that strange" that the mugger asked "please."

Release

The 1973 single charted in Canada only. The single was reissued in 1976 to promote the compilation The Best of B.T.O. (So Far), with the 1975 song "Four-Wheel Drive" as the B-side. It charted in both the US and Canada.

Reception

Goldmine magazine critic Martin Popoff ranked it number 3 in his list of the top 20 "pounding-est" sounding BTO songs, recalling that he had fond memories of spinning it. Record World described the song as a "hard hitting rocker." In a review for the Bachman–Turner Overdrive album on AllMusic, music critic Joe Viglione stated that it is "one of C.F. Turner's best contributions to the Bachman-Turner Overdrive catalog." Cash Box described the 1976 single release as being "done up with integrity. The lead vocal is growled out in syncopated time to the hard driving rhythm, and the result is a class A progressive single."

Track listings

All info is according to the Netherlands' chart website.

Personnel

According to the liner notes of Bachman–Turner Overdrive.