Streets of London (song) 1974 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and a Silver disc for record sales. In 2017, Ralph McTell re-recorded the song with Annie Lennox and clients of UK national charity Crisis, a charity for single homeless people. This was to mark the 50th anniversary of both the song and the charity. The CD Single of this release was Number 1 in the Christmas 2017 Official Physical Singles Chart (for CD sales). Streets of London (song) "Streets of London" is a song by Ralph McTell, who first recorded it for his 1969 album "Spiral Staircase." It was not
Hot Streets not accept them without Kath. Although the album went platinum, and Chicago scored a second top-twenty hit with "No Tell Lover", "Hot Streets" was the first Chicago album since their debut that failed to reach the US Top 10; fittingly, the band's twelfth album peaked at #12. Following the release of "Chicago 13" and at the end of the Christmas 1979 tour, Dacus would be released from the group, bringing his short tenure with Chicago to an abrupt end. In 2003, "Hot Streets" was remastered and reissued by Rhino Records with an alternate version of Lamm's "Love Was New" sung