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Pretty Little Horses - Just Like Love

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Album: Evergreen
Released: 2012

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Pretty Little Horses was a long distance collaboration between country and progressive rock singer/songwriter, Dean Madonia, and his friend, Greg Curvey, from the psychedelic band, The Luck of Eden Hall. The two have known each other for years but hadn't seen each other in awhile. When they ran into each other, Madonia suggested that they should record something together. With Curvey residing in Chicago, Illinois and Madonia in Nashville, Tennessee, Curvey wrote the music and would then send it to Madonia to write the lyrics, and Madonia would then send it back to him. When everything was ready to be recorded, Curvey flew to Nashville to cut drums, guitar, and vocals while Madonia added his parts and mixed the album.

Greg Curvey composed the whole score for the film, The Stream. He was asked for a pop song for the movie to play during the ending credits, so he suggested "Just Like Love" by Pretty Little Horses.

When we interviewed Dean Madonia , he gave insight about what he wishes for the project in the future, "I'm hoping that maybe someday, we'll record a Pretty Little Horses 2. I'd like to see a little bit of interest somehow through this movie and maybe spark a second album."

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

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Album: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Released: 1990

Nothing Compares 2 U Lyrics

It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
I went to the doctor guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl you better try to have fun no matter what you do
But he's a fool
'Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you

All the flowers that you planted mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

Writer/s: NELSON, PRINCE ROGERS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Prince wrote this song. He did a live version with Rosie Gaines on his album Hits.

Prince originally wrote this for The Family, a band that was signed to his Paisley Park record label. The song was inspired by a member who had just broken up with his girlfriend. The Family was made up of former members of The Time, and they released only one album.

This was a #1 hit in 17 countries. In the US, it was the #1 song of 1990, topping the charts for 4 weeks.

O'Connor released her first album three years earlier. It got a lot of play on college radio, earning her a small, but devoted fan base. This song thrust her into the spotlight, and the attention had some deleterious effects on the singer. O'Connor claimed she hated the fame the song brought her, and struggled with the commercialization of her music. "Nothing Compares 2 U" earned her a Grammy for Best Alternative Performance, but she refused to appear on the awards show in protest.

The director shot a lot of footage around Paris for the video, but ended up using just a simple tight shot of O'Connor singing. It was the first time most people saw what she looked like and were surprised that she was bald. She shaved her head when she first started recording because she wanted to make a statement and not be known for her beauty.

When Sinéad cried In the video, it was a real tear. In the Rolling Stone Top 500 songs issue, she said, "I didn't intend for that moment to happen, but when it did, I thought, 'I should let this happen.'"

She told The Daily Telegraph in 2014 that the tear was triggered because she associated the song's lyrics of love and loss with her mother, who was killed in a car accident in 1985.

Chris Hill, the co-director of O'Connor's label Ensign, recalled to Mojo magazine January 2009 the first time he heard this song: "Fachtna O'Kelly, Sinéad's manager, brought in a cassette and when I heard it I actually started crying. I just sat there with tears in my eyes."
Then O'Kelly rang up Sinead OConnor and went, 'Chris is crying.' 'Was it that bad?' Sinéad asked.

This was O'Connor's last big hit. She turned off a lot of people with her political statements, which included refusing to let the National Anthem be played before a concert in New Jersey and tearing up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live.

In 1998, MTV named this #34 on their list of the greatest videos ever made.

Although this was a mainstream hit, O'Connor was considered an "Alternative" artist at the time. The album won the 1990 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. She boycotted the awards show to protest materialism in the music industry.

The "2 U" in the title is a Prince thing. He has songs called "I would die 4 U" and "If I Love U 2 Nite."

This was produced by Beresford Romeo (Jazzie B.) and Nellee Hooper, two members of the group Soul II Soul.

It was Sinéad O'Connor's manager, Fachtna O'Kelly, who came up with the idea for the Irish singer to cover the Prince song.

The video for Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" also contained some very tight shots of the singer's face, and also a tear, which Cyrus claimed was shed for her recently departed dog. Speaking with Rolling Stone, Cyrus said, "It's like the Sinead O'Connor video, but, like, the most modern version."

This quote, which didn't even make the magazine (it was posted on the web), set in motion a feud between the singers, with O'Connor publishing what she called an "open letter" on her website, warning Cyrus about the dangers of her career path. Cyrus responded with a Tweet that simply said "Before Amanda Bynes.... There was....", a reference to O'Connor's past mental health issues.

The confrontation illuminated some of the strange parallels between the singers:

- Both shaved their heads. Sinéad did it so she couldn't be marketed for her looks; Miley so she could establish her style and blend in.

- Cyrus was a favorite on Saturday Night Live, and hosted the show the week after the feud. O'Connor was banned from the show after her first appearance.

- Their tearful songs were their first #1 hits, but both were written by others. O'Connor's song was written by Prince, Cyrus' by a team of five professional writer/producers.

Aretha Franklin covered this for her 2014 album, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. Her version was produced by Andre 3000, who gives it a classic jazz feel. Aretha's longtime collaborator, Clive Davis, has known the Outkast rapper since he was 17, and that friendship led to his involvement. "He said his dream is to produce a cut or two for the great Aretha Franklin," said Davis.

Sinéad O'Connor announced in March 2015 that she will not be performing this song anymore. The Irish songstress explained: "The first principle of the manner in which I'm trained as a singer (Bel Canto) is we never sing a song we don't emotionally identify with. After twenty-five years of singing it, nine months or so ago I finally ran out of anything I could use in order to bring some emotion to it."

"I don't want audiences to be disappointed coming along to a show and then not hearing it, so am letting you know here that you won't. If I were to sing it just to please people, I wouldn't be doing my job right, because my job is to be emotionally available. I'd be lying. You'd be getting a lie."

Druckfarben - Liberated Dream

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Album: Second Sound
Released: 2014

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"Liberated Dream" is the fourth track from Druckfarben's second album, Second Sound. The song was written by the Canadian progressive rock band's guitarist, Ed Bernard. In our interview with Bernard , he told us that he wrote the tune a couple of summers earlier when he had a huge burst of creativity and wrote 13 songs in just two months. "I had a studio here at my place so I just tracked the whole thing and presented it to the band," said Bernard. "It was actually a tricky song to get the vocal melody and the lyrics because the music is so busy."

The song lyrically speaks about Bernard's spiritual beliefs. He explained to us why he did not want his beliefs to come at the listener in a heavy-handed way. "Regardless of who writes the lyrics, if people read it and see what the lyrics are saying, they tend to think that that's what the whole band thinks and that's how the whole band feels," he said.

Bernard went on to reveal that Druckfarben needed to deal with this problem: "There was a moment in the writing of this record where there was a concern that had to be addressed. I didn't want to feel like I was speaking for everybody in the band and I know they didn't want that either."

The Rolling Stones - Sad Sad Sad

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Album: Steel Wheels
Released: 1989

Sad Sad Sad Lyrics

Someone woke me up this mornin'
And I lit a cigarette
Found myself when I stopped yawnin'
Started getting myself dressed

Then I felt that I had a dream
I remembered the things that I'd seen
I could still hear the things you said
With that bad dream in my head

It was a sad day, bad day
Sad day, bad day

So I called you on the phone
And your friend said, "She's not home"
So I told her where I'd be at
And that you should call me back

Then I looked at the morning mail
I was not even expecting a bill
Your letter a-started, "Dear"
And it left me with these tears

It was a sad day, bad day
Sad day, bad day

Think of the times that we had rows
But we patched them up somehow
Think of the times I tried to go
But you screamed and told me no

There is only one thing in this world
That I can't understand, that's a girl
I keep a-readin' the things you said
Like a bad dream in my head

It was a sad day, bad day
Sad day, bad day

Oh, what a sad, sad old day
A sad old day, it was a sad old day
A sad old day, it was a bad old day
A sad old day, a bad old day

If there is one awful thing in this world
That I can't understand, that's a girl
It was a sad, sad old day
Sad old day, it was a sad old day
Writer/s: RICHARDS, KEITH / JAGGER, MICK
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
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This is the first track from Steel Wheels, an album that brought The Stones back together. Jagger and Richards had both done solo albums and it looked like The Stones may have been done.

The horns were played by the Brass ensemble The Kick Horns.

Ron Wood played bass. Bill Wyman, The Stones bassist, had to deal with the press after announcing his engagement to 18-year-old Mandy Smith, and was not available. Wyman and Smith divorced soon after their marriage.

Charlie Watts helped write this, but as was custom for The Stones, it was credited only to Jagger/Richards.

Druckfarben - Long Walk Down

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Album: Second Sound
Released: 2014

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"Long Walk Down" is the fifth track on Druckfarben's 2014 sophomore release, Second Sound. The music was written by the progressive rock band's keyboard player, Will Hare. He brought the song to their guitarist, Ed Bernard , who liked it right away. "It was great because it has a nice ballad feel to it, which is something that we don't always do either," said Bernard in our interview.

Bernard was happy that "Long Walk Down" was fairly short because a criticism that prog rock often endures is that the songs are far too long so people do not want to listen them. Bernard explained that sometimes they have to fix the length of their tunes. "We actually try to make our songs longer sometimes if it doesn't happen," he said.

Bernard wrote the lyrics, and says he wants the listener to come up with their own meaning for the song. "I ad-libbed the vocals and I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about," he said. "Everyone is free to interpret that one how they want but I think it's pretty."

Ministry - What About Us

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Album: Greatest Fits
Released: 2001

What About Us Lyrics

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Ministry wrote this for the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie A.I., where the band performed it in the "Flesh Fair" scene. Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen came up with the lyrics to go along with the theme of the movie, which is the conflict between robots and humans; the humans mantra is "What About Us?", and they proceed to rip apart the robots at the Flesh Fair.

Ministry was the first real band Spielberg used in one of his movies, and for a while, it looked like the industrial rockers and the legendary director were not going to get along. In our 2012 interview with Al Jourgensen, he explained: "We were on set for three days; I saw Spielberg while we were onstage and we were doing rehearsals, but we didn't meet, so they set up a meeting with Spielberg, his handler, and the whole band. And it was kind of like meeting the queen. You couldn't talk to him, you couldn't look him in the face unless he talked to you. I was at the end of the line of the fans, and he got down to me, and I just blew off all the protocol, and I told him, 'Hey, Steve, baby, what's the deal? I thought 'A.I.' stood for Anal Intruder and this was supposed to be a porno film.' I told him that. 'This man's gotta walk. We're quitting today.' I was kidding. Just break the ice. But his handler freaked out and Spielberg took it personally and I had to chase him down in all my costuming and all this crap that I was wearing and just go, 'Look, I was just kidding! Just relax!' They were so uptight about it.

After that, every day on the set, Spielberg would come up and name a new moniker for A.I. Like, I think his first one was 'Animal Indecency.' So every day he'd come up and he'd name a new porn title. And then he finally started wearing my cowboy hat and started jamming with us on stage. So I love Steven, man, he's great. But we had kind of an auspicious start."

Stanley Kubrick was the original director for A.I., but when he died, Spielberg took it over. It was Kubrick who asked Ministry to write the song and perform in the film. "That was all initiated by Stanley Kubrick who called me up out of the blue and said he was a big fan and he had this screenplay that he sent me and he wanted us to be the band and to write the music for it," said Jourgensen. "I hung up on him. I thought it was a crank call. His secretary was calling and I was like, 'Yeah, right.' Click. And then he called back personally and then talked to me, and I was just freaked out. I mean, who wouldn't be freaked out? Here's this eccentric American God living in the countryside of England, and he's calling me up in Austin, Texas, and saying he wants me to do the music for his film and he wants me to be in his film and he's famous and all that. I didn't even believe it."

The robotic teddy bear plays a big role in Flesh Fair scene were Ministry performed this song in A.I., but it wasn't so cute when it was holding up production. Said Jourgensen: "I wound up getting stuck with this f--king electronic teddy bear that was on the set the whole time that was breaking down. So it took us like three weeks to film our part because the bear broke down every f--king day. (Laughing) We'd be sitting there on stage and you hear walkie talkies going on all over the place going, 'The bear is down! The bear is down!' So then we'd hit the commissary and just drink beers and get drunk and wait for the bear to get back up. And then you'd hear walkie talkies going, 'The bear is up! The bear is up! Everyone back on set!' So we'd have to run back on set in our costumes. And this f--king bear... seriously, I would like to buy it at auction just so I could put it in my firepot and burn it once and for all. This thing was a nightmare that bear. I hated that bear."

This doesn't appear on the A.I. soundtrack, where it would have clashed with the John Williams and David Foster pieces from the score.

Jeremy Taylor - Ag Pleez Deddy

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Album: Ag Pleez Deddy
Released: 1961

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As might be suspected from its title, "Ag Pleez Deddy" is a vernacular song - written partly in Afrikaans. Oxford graduate Jeremy Taylor went to South Africa as a teacher, but this ditty - which he wrote in 1961 - is said to have outsold Elvis Presley. Subtitled "Ballad Of The Southern Suburbs" (in brackets), it was released on the Gallotone label backed by Jo'Burg Talking Blues."

It was also used in the revue Wait A Minim!, and appears on the original soundtrack, wherein it runs to 3 minutes 54 seconds.

Jeremy Taylor said of this song: "I was teaching at a school in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg, and I was enchanted by the way they spoke English. So I wrote them a song. It had some strange effects, because a lot of people were offended, especially the parents. The government didn't like it either because it was mixing the languages; they didn't want black and white to mix, and they didn't want English and Afrikaans to mix either. But the kids loved it, and so did South Africa in the end."

An alternative recording on the Gallotone label is credited to Bali-Taylor, and the song is called simply "Ballad Of The Northern Suburbs." The recording is credited to Valerie Miller and Taylor. A third (and live) recording, by Taylor alone on the Decca label, contains "the missing last verse." Herein, the title is given (verbatim) as:

"Ag, Pleez Daddy
Ballad of the Southern Suburbs"
(thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England, for all above)

The Rolling Stones - Back To Zero

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Album: Dirty Work
Released: 1986

Back To Zero Lyrics

Back To Zero
So you want to blow us all to pieces
Go meet your maker, head hung down
And give him all your explanations
Go ahead, throw down
Back to zero, back to nothing
Straight to meltdown, back to zero
That's where we're heading

It's a monkey living on my back
I can feel my spine begin to crack
I'm looking to the future
I keep on glancing back
I prefer to rot
I don't want to pop

I think I'll head back to the jungle, alright
Don't want to see no big bad rumble, too fright
Back to zero, that's where we're going
Back to nothing, right now, right now
No heroes? No more heroes
Back to meltdown
That's where I'm going, back to zero

My whole life is hanging on a thread
I'm the fly inside the spider's web
I'm looking to the future
I keep on glancing back
I prefer to rot
I don't want to pop

I worry about my great grandchildren
Living ten miles beneath the ground
I worry about their whole existence
The whole damn thing's in doubt
Back to zero, that's where we're going
Back to nothing, that's where we're heading
Straight to meltdown, that's where we're going
Back to zero, right now, right now

We're going nowhere
Right now, right now
Back to zero, that's where we're heading
Back to zero

Writer/s: CHUCK LEAVELL, KEITH RICHARDS, MICHAEL PHILLIP JAGGER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Mick Jagger wrote this about his fear of a nuclear war.

This is the only Rolling Stones song Chuck Leavell got a writing credit for. Formerly with the Allman Brothers Band, he played keyboards with The Stones through the '80s.

Along with "Winning Ugly," one of 2 songs Mick Jagger wrote for Dirty Work. Keith Richards did most of the work on the album because Jagger was busy promoting his solo album, She's The Boss.

Strelnikoff - Bitchcraft

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Album: Bitchcraft
Released: 1998

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This uptempo track by the Slovenian rock band Strelnikoff is recorded in English (and Anglo-Saxon). In spite of its lyrics, it is not an anti-abortion song, indeed it is precisely the opposite. If the content of the song caused controversy, the CD cover didn't go down too well either: a picture of the Virgin Mary embracing a giant rat.

The Slovenian church and many individual Catholics demanded not only that the single be banned but that the group be thrown into gaol; the State Attorney received literally thousands of letters to this effect. On March 7, 1998, Archbishop Franc Rode organized a special mass to forgive the blasphemers, though it was not until 2003 that the furor ended when finally a court rejected the indictment. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

The Rolling Stones - Too Rude

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Album: Dirty Work
Released: 1986

Too Rude Lyrics

Girl you're too bad
Girl you're Too Rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you

Everywhere
All over the place
Every man, he has
A picture of your face
Hey little girl
Don't you realize
This is a goddamn disgrace

Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you

Oh little girl
You never want me
Tomorrow night you say
You need my key
Hey little girl
Go and have a ball
You know one day girl
You're bound to fall

Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you

Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you

Everywhere
All over the place
Every man, he has
A picture of your face
Hey little girl
Don't you realize
This is a goddamn disgrace
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you

Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you
Girl you're too bad
Girl you're too rude
Everyman I speak to
Says he wants you

Writer/s: ROBERTS, LINDON / DUNBAR, LOWELL / SHAKESPEARE, ROBBIE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The song was originally recorded by Jamaican reggae star Half Pint with the title of "Winsome." It was a big hit and his first #1 in his home country. Half Pint heard about the Stones covering his song from percussionist Sydney Wolfe who was at a studio in Holland when Keith Richards chose it. Wolfe relayed the news to Half Pint about the re-titled rock version. The Jamaican reggae star surmised in The Sunday Gleaner: "He (Richards) used to spend a lot of time in Jamaica. He probably was around when it was popular on the charts." Half Pint added that he finds it, "interesting still. They did it in a slow tempo way. That tempo was more like a ballad tempo, but you can hear the rock attitude. They had rock with a pop feel". He concluded that the song's reggae origins were not forgotten and the Stones also "did it in a way that you can realise it was a reggae song. It was not far from reggae, but you could hear the difference."

Keith Richards sang on this with Reggae star Jimmy Cliff. Cliff had a hit years later with "I Can See Clearly Now."

"Too Rude" was considered for the album title.

The Beach Boys - We Three Kings of Orient Are

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Album: The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
Released: 1862

We Three Kings of Orient Are Lyrics

We Three Kings of Orient Are
Bearing gifts, we traverse far
Field and fountain
Moor and mountain
Following yonder star

Oh, star of wonder, star of might
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to thy perfect light

Born a babe on Bethlehem's plain
Gold we bring to crown him again
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign

Oh, star of wonder, star of might
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to the perfect light

Frankincense to offer have I
Incense owns a deity nigh
Prayer and praising, all men raising
Worship God on high

Oh, star of wonder, star of might
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to the perfect light

Writer/s: TRADITIONAL, . / DOY, CARL WILLIAM
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This carol was written in 1857 by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins. He wrote both words and music as part of a Christmas pageant for the General Theological Seminary in New York City. As it proved popular within his circle of family and friends, Hopkins decided to publish the carol in 1862.

The Beach Boys recorded this carol for their 1964 The Beach Boys' Christmas Album. At 4:04, it was the longest song the Beach Boys recorded in the entire 1960s.

Fun fact: The Bible does not say there were only three wise men. We assume that they were a trio because of the three gifts that were given: gold, incense, and myrrh.

The Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle

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Album: Dirty Work
Released: 1986

Harlem Shuffle Lyrics

You move it to the left, yeah
You go for yourself
You move it to the right
Yeah if it takes all night

Now take it kinda slow
With a whole lot of soul
Don't move it too fast
Just make it last

You scratch just like a monkey
Yeah you do real cool
You slide it to the limbo
Yeah how low can you go?

Now come on baby
Don't fall down on me now
Just move it right here
To the Harlem Shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah to the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah to the Harlem shuffle

Hitch hitch hike baby
Across the floor
Whoa whoa whoa
I can't stand it no more

Now come on baby
Now get into your slide
Just ride ride ride
Little pony, ride!

Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Do the Monkey shine
Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby
Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby

Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah like your mother told you how
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle
Yeah yeah yeah do the Harlem shuffle

Writer/s: ROBERT RELF, EARL NELSON
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Harlem Shuffle is a dance that was popular in the '50s and '60s originating in Harlem ballrooms. Harlem is a section of New York City with a large black population. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was originally recorded by the R&B duo Bob and Earl in 1969. Their version, which was produced by Barry White, hit #7 in the UK. Keith Richards wanted to record this for quite a while. He would put the original version on demo tapes for Mick Jagger. The Bob and Earl version was sampled on the House Of Pain hit "Jump Around."

With the exception of the live cut "Going To A Go-Go," this was the first cover song The Stones released as a single since The Valentinos' "It's All Over Now" in 1964. Bobby Womack, the author and lead singer, sang backup on this and other songs on Dirty Work.

Backup singers included Womack, Tom Waits, Don Covay, and Patti Scialfa, who would later marry Bruce Springsteen.

Keith Richards said of this song in 1986: "I've been trying to get Harlem Shuffle on an album, without actually telling Mick, for 5 or 6 years. I thought that was a natural number for him to sing - it was made for him. I've been giving him cassettes with Harlem Shuffle stuffed in the middle somewhere for a long time, but I never got any real response. One night we were in the studio and Woody and I started plunking away at it. We were amazed at how simple the song was - about 2 chords. The band was just warming up on it, jamming, when Mick walked in and started singing. We realized, YEAH. And we did it in 2 takes. So it paid off eventually, though it cost me a fortune in cassettes."

Two extended versions were released as 12-inch singles, the "London Mix" and "NY Mix."

The video was one of the first to combine live action with animation. It opens with a cartoon featuring some cats going to a club, where the Rolling Stones are playing. The cartoon cats show up throughout the video. Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi did the animation. Both artists pioneered adult animation and specialized in cats: Bakshi worked on Fritz the Cat, which was the first cartoon movie to get an X rating, and Kricfalusi drew for the raunchy cartoon Ren and Stimpy.