Mama Told Me Not to Come

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So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his girlfriend is cheating on him. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. Sister Christian" was written by Night Ranger drummer Kelly Keagy, who was imploring his younger sister to be careful in her reckless youth, especially when "motoring" (driving around) with friends. According to Wells, Newman was sniffy about these unsophisticated longhairs covering his song – until the royalties began rolling on.

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To see what this song really means it needs to be played at a house party where the joints and lines are being passed around freely together with the booze and see how many smiling faces and laughs it gets. Tom Jones' version of this Randy Newman song was recorded with the Welsh band Stereophonics for his 1999 Reload album.

Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Lively rapport … Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani in Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not To Come. Where Randy Newman sounded like he really was regretting coming to that party, Three Dog Night absolutely did not. So the artist just hides the truth about the song with a double on tundra to get it played on the radio. Cory Wells, one of three lead singers in Three Dog Night, passed away Tuesday (October 20th, 2015) in Dunkirk, New York. Nuz from NzNo one seems to have commented on the similarity between the intro of Three Dog Night's version of this song and the intro to CCR's Born on the Bayou.

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Born Emil Lewandowski in Buffalo, New York, Cory initially formed a band while serving in the US Air Force. Jonathan from Stamford, CtOn the album Eric Is Here, Eric Burdon, formerly of The Animals, does a version of this song. Animals frontman Eric Burdon recorded it first, bellowing out an unmemorable version on his 1966 solo album Eric Is Here, before Newman himself laid down his own nervy, piano-centred take on it on 1970’s 12 Songs. The Eric Is Here album was actually recorded in Detroit, so the song, in general, has a definite Motown feel to it.He is still waiting for Billy Gibbons to send him a bottle of hot sauce he was promised several years ago. During a break, one of the band members was in the bathroom and noticed the echo in there was what they were looking for! Cash Box suggested that this song could "do for Randy Newman what the Fifth Dimension did for Laura Nyro" since Three Dog Night is "the first to apply muscle to his material. John from Kirkland, WaI once heard a story about this song - I think it was many years ago on the Casey Kasem show - that when they were doing the studio recording, they were looking for a specific echo effect and were not coming up with it. Newman had little chart success as an artist in these early years, but Three Dog Night did, and their raucous rendition was the one listeners preferred.

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Ekristheh from Halath, United StatesI never saw it as an anti-drug lyric and I don't believe it was meant that way. But usually, Pabani and Jay’s lively rapport and obvious delight in one another’s company paper over those cracks.They disbanded when the hits dried up in 1976, but reformed within five years and Cory continued to perform with them until last month when he was sidelined with severe back pain. He has written for Metal Hammer, Louder, Prog, the Observer, Select, Mojo, the Evening Standard and the totally legendary Ultrakill.