“Workin Hard, Playin Hard” by Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent wrote "Workin Hard, Playin Hard" on his own for Cat Scratch Fever, his third studio album, which Epic turned loose on May 13, 1977. Tom Werman, Lew Futterman and Cliff Davies share the production credit, Tim Geelan and Wayne Tarnowski engineered, and the title alone reads like a two-fisted creed.

The album caught his band in flux. Singer Derek St. Holmes, who had quit during the making of Free-for-All, came back for the road in 1976 and was once more the main lead voice here, while bassist Rob Grange was making his last studio album with Nugent. Cat Scratch Fever went multi-platinum, and AllMusic's Greg Prato later judged it every bit as ferocious as the 1975 debut.

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