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The Doors - Runnin' Blue

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

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This is a tribute to Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash on Dec 10, 1967. The Doors were scheduled to play with Redding at Winterland in San Francisco on Dec 26-28, 1967.

In addition to writing this, Doors guitarist Robby Krieger sang lead. It is one of the few Doors songs where Jim Morrison is not the primary vocalist.

The Doors released this as a single, but did not make the Top 40.

Morrison was abusing alcohol during most of the recording of this album. Since songs like this involved a lot of instruments and took a while to record, Morrison had a lot of time to get drunk. As a result, he didn't contribute much to it.

One of the instruments used was a fiddle.

Rae Morris - Wait a While

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Album: From Above
Released: 2013

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This was the first song that Rae Morris ever penned. She wrote it with her fellow Blackpool singer-songwriter Karima Francis, with whom she was in a gay relationship. "She taught me how to write, Morris explained to The Independent in a 2015 interview. "And the first song I wrote, 'Wait a While,' was a song that I wrote because she helped me to write it. It changed everything. And yeah, completely opened my life."

"I don't say that I'm gay because I haven't been in a relationship with a girl since then," she added. "And I don't actually label my sexuality at all 'cause I don't actually know myself. I was 17 when I fell in love with her, and I fell in love with a songwriter – a force of nature."

The Doors - The Soft Parade

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

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This was the title track to The Doors' fourth album. It sold well, but many critics felt it was a sellout to Pop music. Their next album, Morrison Hotel, was a return to their roots and was recorded a lot faster.

Morrison put the lyrics together out of pieces of poetry he had written.

Many of the images are of people walking along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where Morrison often hung out.

The Doors played this live only once: on a PBS television special in 1969. (thanks, Sam - Lincoln, NE)

Colt Ford - Ride Through the Country

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Album: Ride Through the Country
Released: 2008

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The title track of Colt Ford's debut album, "Ride Through the Country" finds the country rapper laying out his doctrine and explaining how he grew up. Ford grew up in Athens, Georgia and enjoyed the simple pleasures in life, spending a lot of time outdoors with friends and family. It's the beginning of a rags-to-riches story, as his upbringing gave him material for various hit songs, specifically Jason Aldean country #1 "Dirt Road Anthem," which he wrote with Brantley Gilbert.

By sticking to his roots and his unique style, Ford carved out a fulfilling and successful career as a songwriter and artist.

In our interview with Colt Ford, he explained that as a new artist, he felt it was important to introduce himself to his audience and make it very clear what he stands for, which is why he wrote this song. Said Ford: "I wanted to plant that flag and say, All right, this is me, this is everything that I stand for, that I believe in. You listen to that song, you don't much have to ask about who I am and what I believe in. It says it all right there."

Many of Ford's songs feature a more traditional country singer crooning the hook between verses, and on this one, John Michael Montgomery does the honors.

Ford wrote this song with his buddies Jared Scuillo, Justin Spillner, Shannon Houchins and Demun Jones. Scuillo, Spillner and Houchins also collaborated with Ford on a few other tracks on the album, including "Mr. Goodtime" and "Cold Beer."

The Doors - Wild Child

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

Wild Child Lyrics

All right,
Wild Child full of grace
Savior of the human race,
Your cool face
Natural child, terrible child
Not your mother's or your father's child
Your our child, screamin' wild
An ancient rulage of grains,
And the trees of the night
Ha, ha, ha, ha
With hunger at her heels,
Freedom in her eyes
She dances on her knees,
Pirate prince at her side
Stirrin' into a hollow idols eyes
Wild child full of grace,
Savior of the human race
Your cool face,
Your cool face,
Your cool face
Do you remember when we were in Africa?

Writer/s: JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON, JIM MORRISON, LEWIS ALLEN RABINOWITZ, LOU REED
Publisher: SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Ian Astbury sang on this.

Most of the album contained more orchestral songs than what The Doors had previously recorded. This, however, was closer to their earlier work than anything else on The Soft Parade.

This was the B-side of "Touch Me."

Colt Ford - Waffle House

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Album: Ride Through the Country
Released: 2008

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A track from Colt Ford's first album, this song is based on a story a friend told the county rapper. The song is about a guy who is distraught because he thinks his woman is cheating on him. He finds himself at a Waffle House, staring at a plate of grits and asking for his gun.

Less a murder ballad than a comic patter, it's safe to assume that the guy in the Waffle House comes to his senses and abandons his homicidal thoughts once he sobers up.

Folks growing up in Waffle House heavy communities are more likely to see the humor in this song, as the quirky eateries tend to attract such drama, which is often diffused over a good meal.

In our interview with Colt Ford, he said he was surprised how many people had a connection with this song. "It's amazing how many people come up and go, ''Waffle House,' man, I live that dang thing!,' he told us. "You're like, Wow, that's sad, but it's cool."

Sunny Ledfurd is the guest vocalist on this track. Ford wrote the song with Scott Weatherwax and Dugi Bakalli.

The Doors - Tell All The People

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

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Doors guitarist Robby Krieger wrote this, as well as most of the songs on The Soft Parade. He thought it was perfect for Jim Morrison to sing, but Morrison did not want to be associated with this song was because of the negative imagery in the lyrics. "Tell all the people get your guns...," was the phrase that made Jim Morrison hate this song. Krieger was referring to an event where certain rednecks violently beat him and Doors drummer John Densmore. This also explains why you see them on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with black eyes playing "Touch Me." (thanks, Greg - Cincinnati, OH)

This song prompted Morrison to insist on individual writing credits so people could identify which band member wrote which songs. He did not want anyone to think he wrote this.

This was released as a single, but did not make the top 40.

Colt Ford - Drivin' Around Song

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Album: Declaration of Independence
Released: 2012

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The country rapper Colt Ford is known for writing honest songs about life in the South. This song about driving around in a small town on a Saturday night fits the bill, but Ford didn't write it; the song was penned by the Nashville mainstays Craig Wiseman, Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson.

"Anything that I've cut that I haven't written, I think that most people would never know that I didn't write it," Ford said in our 2015 interview. "To me that's probably the best example."

Jason Aldean sings the chorus on this track. Ford and another Georgia-bred songwriter, Brantley Gilbert, co-wrote "Dirt Road Anthem," which was a huge hit for Aldean in 2011.

The drivin' around on this song takes place in a "Jack and Diane town." This is a reference to the John Mellencamp song, which paints a picture of a young couple in a small town enjoying their youth in the rural setting. That song has a wide-reaching appeal, as it describes a pastoral life in many American communities.

The video stars Danica Patrick was Ford's love interest. In the clip, their vehicle breaks down, so Danica steals the keys to the mechanic's ATV and the couple go for a joyride (she drives, of course). The mechanic is played by Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Patrick's boyfriend and fellow NASCAR driver.

The clip was shot in Mooresville, North Carolina, where Ford and Patrick do their drivin' around. Patrick had more than her share of media exposure by this point, but Stenhouse, not so much. "It was the first time I had ever done anything like that," he told Billboard. "You could tell it was a little nerve-racking."

DEC3 - Red Line

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Album: DEC3
Released: 2014

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"Red Line" is the fourth track from DEC3's self-titled debut album. The band was forced to release the song as the first single when their guitarist, Jon Haber, was asked to be interviewed on Fox News. They created a video for the song just for that occasion.

The song was inspired by the Syrian Civil War. DEC3's primary songwriter, Jon Haber, revealed in our interview with him why he chose that controversial topic. "When I wrote this song, recorded it, and it was mixed, no one was paying attention to the situation over there," he said. "I put myself in the shoes of a civilian living there who's going through all this craziness."

The lyrics mention real events that happened during the Syrian Uprising, such as chemical weapons like gas being used to kill innocent children by the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. Jon Haber watched the news day-to-day to help write the words for the tune, "There's a lot of material out there in order to write these lyrics. Just by watching and following the news, I was able to weave a story out of what I was seeing."

The song was written one year before the United States invaded Syria in September of 2014. The title was taken from a quotation from the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the middle and ending of the song features sound bites from him. The civilian telling the story is upset and frustrated with Obama because he didn't do anything to help at the time even though he said he would.

"We said we were going to do something and we didn't do anything. The one last hope that someone had over there at that time was that somebody was going to come and help get them out of this dictator's grip," explained Haber.

Jon Haber wrote the guitar riff for the chorus of the song in 2010 and then wrote the rest of it about three years later over the course of one weekend.

The only song Jon Haber did not play bass on the album was "Red Line." Zach Cooper from the progressive rock band, Coheed and Cambria, contributed bass on the song. DEC3's drummer, Mike Kalajian, used to be in a group with Cooper so they enlisted his help when he was in town.

The last thing added to the song was the piano part that was played by Shane Keister from Five for Fighting, who is known for piano-based rock. Haber described his intention for that section, saying, "It's like a Bach fugue, which I wanted specifically something in that style juxtaposed against the rest of the music."

The Who - Boris The Spider

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Album: Happy Jack
Released: 1966

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Look, he's crawling up my wall
Black and hairy, very small
Now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread

Boris The Spider
Boris the spider

Now he's dropped on to the floor
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he's as scared as me
Where's he gone now, I can't see

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

There he is wrapped in a ball
Doesn't seem to move at all
Perhaps he's dead, I'll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

He's come to a sticky end
Don't think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl 'round
He's embedded in the ground

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Writer/s: JOHN ENTWHISTLE
Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
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This was the first Who song written by their bass player, John Entwistle. Pete Townshend ordered him to write a song for their second album. To encourage the band to write their own songs, their record company offered them a £500 advance if each member wrote a song on the album.

Entwistle was afraid of spiders as a kid. He wrote this about seeing a spider crawling from the ceiling and squishing it.

Entwistle wrote this as a joke, but it became a concert favorite. It is a fun song that offset many of the more serious Who songs.

This was the only song from the album that they continued to play live.

In the UK, the album was called A Quick One. It was changed to Happy Jack in the US to avoid being offensive.

After he wrote this, Entwistle started wearing a spider medallion at concerts.

DEC3 - We're All Friends

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Album: DEC3
Released: 2014

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"We're All Friends" from DEC3's debut self-titled album is the fifth track on it. The song is about Facebook and the character in it portrays the social media obsessed generation well. DEC3's guitarist and songwriter, Jon Haber, explained in our interview why he wrote a tune about that topic. "I wanted to come up with something a little bit different than these straight love songs all the time," he said.

The lyrics describe the mundane tasks that people feel the need to share on Facebook such as waking up, brushing your teeth, and posting pictures of your meal while on a date. "I made the song kind of humorous, tongue-in-cheek, but really sarcastic," revealed Haber. "He's the same as everybody else so it's self-deprecating as well and that's why it works. He's not better than anybody else in the song. He is everybody else."