Sleeping Bag (song)

"Sleeping Bag" is a song performed by the band ZZ Top from their 1985 album Afterburner. The song was released as a single in 1985 and became their most successful single, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, equaling the peak of their previous single "Legs". However, unlike "Legs", it also reached No. 1 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, a first for the band.

"Sleeping Bag"
Single by ZZ Top
from the album Afterburner
B-side"Party on the Patio"
Released1985
Recorded1985
GenreSynth-rock
Length4:03
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
Producer(s)Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"Legs"
(1984)		 "Sleeping Bag"
(1985)		 "Stages"
(1985)
Music video
"Sleeping Bag" on YouTube

Track listing

7" single
  1. "Sleeping Bag" - 4:02
  2. "Party on the Patio" - 2:48

12" maxi-single
  1. "Sleeping Bag (Extended Mix)" - 6:12
  2. "Party on the Patio" - 2:48

Music video

A music video directed by Steve Barron was made to promote the song. In the form of a story narrative, two thieves break into a house to recover a sack of money, but are thwarted by a young woman living in the house who runs off with the sack, meeting a young man who accompanies her on the run. After being assisted in their escape by the band members, the ZZ Top video girls and the Eliminator vehicle, the thieves are eventually arrested.

The video marks the end of the "Eliminator" vehicle featured in the videos from the Eliminator album (although its supposed destruction happens off-screen) and introduces the space shuttle from Afterburner.

Actors Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and John Dye (Touched by an Angel) appear as the female and male leads.

Charts
Chart (1985) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[1] 36
Canadian RPM Top Singles[2] 18
German Singles Chart 40
Irish Singles Chart 14
New Zealand Singles Chart[3] 13
Polish Singles Chart 28
Swedish Singles Chart[3] 13
U.K. Singles Chart 27
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 8
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 41
U.S. Billboard Top Rock Tracks 1

Year-end charts
Chart (1985) Position
U.S. Cashbox Top 100 83
Chart (1986)Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[5] 80

Personnel

References
  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  2. "RPM Weekly, Sleeping Bag". Library and Archives Canada.
  3. "ZZ TOP - SLEEPING BAG (SONG)". SwedishCharts.com.
  4. "ZZ Top - Billboard Hot 100 History". Billboard.com. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  5. Nielsen Business Media, Inc (December 27, 1986). "1986 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 98 (52): Y-21.
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