Find Another Fool

Album: Quarterflash (1981)
Charted: 16
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Songfacts®:

  • This is one of the more successful break-up songs of the early 1980's. In it, a woman refuses to believe any of her cheating ex-boyfriend's lies, and tells him to use his lines on someone else, because she won't be fooled by him anymore. >>
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    Mike - Santa Barbara, CA

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 7th 1982, "Find Another Fool" by Quarterflash entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #87; and on April 11 it peaked at #16 (for 2 weeks) and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #12 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart...
    The same week that "Find Another Fool" entered the chart, the group's debut record, "Harden My Heart", was still on the Top 100 at #3...
    Both songs were from the group's self-titled debut album, 'Quarterflash", and the album reached #8 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
    One other track from the album also made the Top 100, "Right Kind of Love', it peaked at #56 on the chart.
  • Dzx from West Sacramento, CaQuarterflash is still a great group - she can really play that sax. I only wish they had more songs.
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