Uncle Tom's Cabin (song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Uncle Tom's Cabin
| cover = Uncletomscabinsingle.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Warrant
| album = Cherry Pie
| B-side = Sure Feels Good To Me
| released = April 1991
| recorded = 1990
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Glam metal{{cite web|last=Crigler|first=Pete|date=February 2015|title=I Remember You: The Legacy of Cock Rock|url=http://www.furious.com/perfect/hairmetal.html |access-date=April 13, 2021|website=Perfect Sound Forever|via=furious.com}}{{cite web|last=Diehl|first=Bob|date=December 3, 2018|title=10 Forgotten Hair Metal Songs That Deserve To Be Remembered|url=https://www.audacy.com/blogs/bob-diehl/10-forgotten-hair-metal-songs-deserve-be-remembered|access-date=June 30, 2023|publisher=Audacy}}
| length = 4:01
| label = Columbia
| writer = Jani Lane
| producer =
| prev_title = I Saw Red
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Blind Faith
| next_year = 1991
}}
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a song by American glam metal band Warrant. It was released in April 1991 as the third single from Warrant's second album Cherry Pie. The song charted at #78 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.{{cite web|url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/warrant-p5790/charts-awards/billboard-singles|title = Allmusic (Warrant charts and awards) Billboard singles|publisher=AllMusic}} In Australia, the single peaked at #85 on the ARIA singles chart in May 1991.{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}
A music video was made for the song, and later the song was re-visited by the band in 1999 on their Greatest & Latest album.
Background
According to frontman Jani Lane, the original working title for the song was "I Know a Secret".
Prior to the writing of the song "Cherry Pie", the album's title and first single was to have been "Uncle Tom's Cabin",{{cite web|url=https://www.grunge.com/589026/the-truth-about-jani-lanes-complicated-relationship-with-cherry-pie/|title=The truth about Jani Lane's complicated relationship with Cherry Pie|date=|access-date= December 9, 2021}} a track which foreshadowed the kind of imaginative song writing which would later be more fully revealed on the Dog Eat Dog record. Although named after the classic novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the song tells the story of a witness to the involvement of local police in a double murder.
Track listing
{{track listing
| title1 = Uncle Tom's Cabin
| note1 = radio edit
| length1 = 3:27
| title2 = Sure Feels Good to Me
| length2 = 2:38
}}
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ Chart performance for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ! Chart (1991) ! Peak |
| scope="row"|Australia (ARIA){{cite web|url=https://imgur.com/an9SL3D|title=Warrant ARIA singles chart history, received from ARIA on March 26, 2019|via=Imgur|access-date=}}
|align="center"|85 |
|---|
| {{single chart|Billboardhot100|78|artist=Warrant|rowheader=true|access-date=2021}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardmainstreamrock|19|artist=Warrant|rowheader=true|access-date=2021}} |
References
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Category:Songs written by Jani Lane
Category:Warrant (American band) songs
Category:Columbia Records singles
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