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Single:
Your Mama Don’t Dance entered the Australian singles chart* on 22 January 1973 and peaked at #5. The song was #43 on the Top 100 of 1973.
Songwriters:
Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina
Producer:
Brian Cadd
Record label of Australian release:
Bootleg
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS SONG BELOW: Your Mama Don’t Dance by Loggins & Messina
Wikipedia:
The Bootleg Family Band was an Australian folk, R&B and rock band formed in 1973 by Brian Cadd on lead vocals with Geoff Cox on drums, Penny Dyer on backing vocals, Gus Fenwick on bass guitar, Brian Fitzgerald on keyboards, Angela Jones on lead and backing vocals, Louise Lincoln on backing vocals, Tony Naylor on lead guitar and Russell Smith on trumpet. The group was the in-house band for Cadd’s label, Bootleg Records but also released their own material and had chart success with cover versions of Your Mama Don’t Dance (original version below) and The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss).
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_Family_Band
Lyrics:
Your mama don′t dance and your daddy don’t rock ′n’ roll
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don′t rock ′n’ roll
When evenin′ rolls around and it’s time to go to town
Where do you go – to rock and roll
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BONUS SONG
Single: Your Mama Don’t Dance by Loggins & Messina entered the Australian singles chart* on 5 February 1973 and peaked at #30.
Album: The song is on Loggins & Messina which entered the Australian albums chart* on 19 March 1973 and peaked at #61.
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
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