[Charles Henrickson]

I'm not familiar with the Pretenders. Jim Croce I was a big fan of, but if he did a cover of "Chain Gang," then that's all it was, a cover of Sam Cooke's song. Sam Cooke did the only version of "Chain Gang" I know.

if Charles is going to do a Parody. . . .

I did. See post 61.

[Mr. Silverback]

I was joking, y’all. I know Croce covered Cooke. He did it in a track called “Chain Gang Medley” that also had “He Don’t Love You” (also a Cooke song, IIRC) and “Searchin’” (originally by The Coasters) in it.

[Condor51]

*** I did. See post 61. ***

Missed that, I type slow :-)
(plus I logged of after posting)

As to The Pretenders. You prolly didn't miss much. They were a Rock Group in the late 70's, early 80's led by Female Singer-song-writer Chrissie Hynde. Their big hit was 'Back On The Chain Gang'. (R&R was still pretty much DEAD then. (imo)

And I didn't know Jim Croce covered Sam Cooke's 'Chain Gang' until I searched his discography. I didn't really care for him. I kinda cringed at his 'Bad Bad Leroy Brown', even though I was at that time still living on the 'South Side of Chicago' (like in his song).