How do I become a witch?

@MatronClaire Why New Orleans ? 🤔

@bijouxbroussard Because the song is called "Witch Queen Of New Orleans". Haven't you heard it?
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@MatronClaire No, I guess not. Although I do remember Redbone.

@bijouxbroussard I remember that song when I was about 10. It's their best-known song.

@MatronClaire Really ? This song got a lot of airplay where I live. I was in high school back then.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0J6vURwLSc]

@bijouxbroussard I've heard that one as well but I don't remember it being a hit. "Witch Queen Of New Orleans" was a hit.

@MatronClaire [b]Actually[/b], "Come And Get Your Love" was also a hit.

[quote]The song peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on April 13, 1974.[1] It spent 18 weeks in the Top 40 and landed as the fourth-most popular song on the Hot 100 for 1974. The single was certified gold by the RIAA on April 22, 1974, which indicates that it had shipped over a half-million copies in North America. The song is Redbone's highest charting single and one of two Top 40 hits by the band. (An earlier recording, "The Witch Queen of New Orleans," peaked at number 21 in 1972.)[/quote]

@bijouxbroussard That's in America though. I don't think "Come And Get Your Love" got that high in Britain. "Witch Queen" went a lot higher than 21 here.

@bijouxbroussard “Come and Get Your Love” was their biggest hit. “Witch Queen of New Orleans got as high as 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
(oops....just saw that was already in your comment).

@DragonFruit You are talking about the American charts, I'm talking about the British ones.

@MatronClaire Redbone is a U.S. band and those were their hits [b]here[/b].

Have you ever been to New Orleans ?

@bijouxbroussard Yes, it sometimes happens that US bands and singers get in the British charts and vice versa. For example, Elvis Presley did as well in the UK as he did in the US, and the Beatles did as well in the US as they did in the UK, so where they come from isn't really that relevant.

@MatronClaire But it does determine which songs are more popular sometimes, evidently.

@bijouxbroussard Apparently not, or she’d realize (realise?) that the song is about Marie Laveau (1801-1881), and that several songs have been written about the “Witch Queen”.

@bijouxbroussard I suppose the British and American charts are bound to differ.

@DragonFruit I did realise that.

@DragonFruit Mostly Mme Laveau was known as "The Voodoo Queen". My grandmother told me stories about her. Their house was near that graveyard where her crypt is.