Alternative title: Foxey Lady
Single:
Foxy Lady entered the Australian singles chart* on 20 January 1968 and peaked at #27.
Album:
The song is on Are You Experienced which entered the Australian albums chart* on 9 September 1967 and peaked at #2.
Songwriter:
Jimi Hendrix
Producer:
Chas Chandler
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Music critic Thomas Ward points out “if one song could be said to encapsulate Hendrix’s entire oeuvre, Foxy Lady is certainly closer than most.” The song opens with a fingered note “shaken in a wide exaggerated vibrato” so the adjacent strings are sounded.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy_Lady
Songfacts:
In the booklet for the Experience Hendrix CD, Hendrix was quoted as saying this was the only happy song he had ever written. He said that he usually just didn’t feel happy when writing songs.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/jimi-hendrix/foxy-lady
Lyrics:
You know you’re a cute little heart-breaker
Foxy
And you know you’re a sweet little love-maker
Foxy
I want to take you home, yeah
I won’t do you no harm, no
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady
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