Your Mama Don't Dance

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"Your Mama Don't Dance"
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Single by Loggins and Messina
from the album Loggins and Messina
B-side"Golden Ribbons"
ReleasedNovember 1972
Recorded1972 at
StudioColumbia Studios, Los Angeles
GenreRock and roll
Length2:48
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina
Producer(s)Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina
Loggins and Messina singles chronology
"Peace of Mind"
(1972) 		"Your Mama Don't Dance"
(1972) 		"Thinking of You"
(1973)

"Your Mama Don't Dance" is a hit 1972 song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina. Released on their self-titled album Loggins and Messina, it reached number four on the Billboard pop chart[1] and number 19 on the Billboard Easy Listening Chart[2] as a single in early 1973.

Overview[]

Jim Messina on the inspiration for
"Your Mama Don't Dance"
"My stepfather...from Arkansas...was not much of a mover or...groover. [But] my mom...loved music. She loved Elvis Presley & Ricky Nelson. She loved [R&B] music. My stepfather was more of an Ernest Tubbs, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash kind of guy. There was not a whole lot of connection or understanding with me wanting to do music, other than from my mom.

So...the line: 'Your mama don't dance & your daddy don't rock & roll',came from me thinking about how my mother wasn't really doing what she loves to do [because] my stepfather was not into rock & roll. He thought the Beatles were just...screaming, long-haired idiots...So I grew up having to put up with that [but] it was [just] a fun lyric [with no intended] social significance whatsoever other than my own experience of a kinda funky household."[3]

This song, whose refrain and first verse is done in a blues format, deals with the 1950s and 1960s lifestyle concerning the generation gap, where the parents oppose the Rock and Roll Revolution of the younger generation, which includes the rebelliousness against the old society that monitors curfews on dating; as well as being arrested for making love with a girl in the back seat of a car during a drive-in movie, which happens during the bridge section of the song.

When released as a single, it was the duo's biggest hit as well as their only Gold single.

"Your Mama Don't Dance" was covered in 1973 by Australian band the Bootleg Family Band, which made the top 5 in Australia. It was also covered in 1985 by the rock band Y&T.

Elvis Presley included the song in a medley of rock n' roll songs on his 1974 album Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis.

Poison cover[]

"Your Mama Don't Dance"
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Single by Poison
from the album Open Up and Say...Ahh!
B-side"Tearin' Down the Walls"
ReleasedFebruary 1, 1989
Recorded1988
Genre
Length3:00
LabelEnigma/Capitol
Songwriter(s)Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina
Producer(s)Tom Werman
Poison singles chronology
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
(1988) 		"Your Mama Don't Dance"
(1989) 		"Unskinny Bop"
(1990)

In 1988, the glam metal band Poison recorded a cover of "Your Mama Don't Dance." It appeared as the ninth track on their second album Open Up and Say...Ahh! by Capitol Records and was released as the album's fourth single. The Poison version reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 39 on the Mainstream rock charts and has since gone Gold in the US. The song also charted at number 21 on the Australian charts and number 13 on the UK Singles chart.[7] The single's B-side is "Tearin' Down the Walls".

Albums[]

"Your Mama Don't Dance" is on the following albums:

Kenny Loggins's 1993 Solo Album:

The Poison version is available on:

The Y&T version is available on:

The Elvis version can be heard on:

Personnel[]

Loggins & Messina version

Chart performance[]

Weekly charts[]

Poison version[]

References[]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  2. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  3. ^ "Interview -- Jim Messina (Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Loggins & Messina)".
  4. ^ "Motley Crue's 'Theatre of Pain' at 30: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-05-30. The prototype for Poison’s “Your Mama Don’t Dance”—another hair-metal remake of a good-natured anti-authoritarian ‘70s jam that happened to be produced by Tom Werman
  5. ^ Rolli, Bryan (July 1, 2021). "Top 30 Glam Metal Albums". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  6. ^ "Poison, Cinderella / Aug. 1, 2006 / Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  7. ^ "Poison The Official Charts Company".
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 180. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. ^ "Ultratop.be – Loggins & Messina – Your Mama Don't Dance" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  10. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  11. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1973-02-17. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
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  13. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  14. ^ RPM Canada
  15. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1973/Top 100 Songs of 1973". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  16. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Poison – Your Mama Don't Dance". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  17. ^ RPM Top Singles - May 8, 1989 RPM Magazine
  18. ^ "Charts.nz – Poison – Your Mama Don't Dance". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  19. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  20. ^ "Poison Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  21. ^ "Poison Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  22. ^ "The Official New Zealand Music Chart".

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