Hot Chocolate – So You Win Again

“So You Win Again” Single by Hot Chocolate from the album Every 1’s a Winner
B-side “A Part of Being with You”
Released June 3, 1977
Label RAK
Songwriter Russ Ballard
Producer Mickie Most
Charted No.31 in US; No.1 in UK; No.6 in West Germany; no.13 in Sweden; No.6 in Austria; No.6 in Belgium.

This Russ Ballard song about how someone can have control over you, no matter what, was Hot Chocolate’s 1 1st and only #1in UK, for 3 weeks, from 26th June – 17th July 1977.

Frontman Errol Brown told the Mail On Sunday January 25, 2009: “This song was played to me by Mickie Most, our producer, with a soft rock feel. I wasn’t that sure about it, but Mickie was confident it would be our first #1. We made it more soulful and recognizably Hot Chocolate.”

This was already their seventh Top 10 hit, though, in a run stretching right back to the start of the decade.