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Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

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Recorded
  
1979

Artist
  
Warren Zevon

Label
  
Asylum Records

Length
  
35:31

Release date
  
15 February 1980

Genre
  
Rock music

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Released
  
February 15, 1980 (February 15, 1980)

Studio
  
The Sound Factory, Hollywood, California

Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980)
  
Stand in the Fire (1980)

Producers
  
Greg Ladanyi, Warren Zevon

Similar
  
Warren Zevon albums, Rock music albums

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Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is the fourth studio album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon. The album was released on February 15, 1980, by Elektra Records. Three singles were released from the album, one of which charted: "A Certain Girl" (a cover of a song previously recorded by Ernie K-Doe and The Yardbirds) reached #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Zevon's second and final hit on that chart.

Contents

"Play It All Night Long" is a commentary on those who listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," whom Zevon supposes only listen to the song because country life is so intolerable. It is probably the only popular song ever written which contains a reference to brucellosis.

The term "dancing school" has been used as a euphemism for a brothel since the mid-17th century.

Bad luck streak in dancing school


Track listing

All songs written by Warren Zevon, unless otherwise indicated.

Personnel

  • Warren Zevon – organ, synthesizer, bass, guitar, harmonica, piano, strings, keyboards, vocals
  • Jorge Calderón – guitar on "A Certain Girl"; backing vocals on "Jungle Work"
  • David Lindley – lap steel on "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" and "Play It All Night Long"; guitar on "Wild Age"
  • Rick Marotta – percussion, drums, vocals, bells, Syndrums
    • Additional personnel
  • The Sid Sharp Strings – strings
  • Jackson Browne – guitar, slide guitar on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"; backing vocals on "A Certain Girl", "Play It All Night Long" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"
  • Don Felder – guitar on "A Certain Girl"
  • Glenn Frey – harmony vocals on "Bill Lee" and "Wild Age"
  • Don Henley – harmony vocals on "Wild Age" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"
  • Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar on "Bed of Coals"
  • Linda Ronstadt – descant on "Empty-Handed Heart"; backing vocals on "Bed of Coals"
  • Leland Sklar – bass
  • J.D. Souther – backing vocals on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" and "Bed of Coals"
  • Waddy Wachtel – lead guitar on "A Certain Girl"; guitar on "Empty-Handed Heart"
  • Joe Walsh – lead guitar on "Jungle Work" and "Jeannie Needs a Shooter"
  • Ernie Sheesley, Niko Bolas, Serge Reyes - engineers
  • Jimmy Wachtel - cover
  • George Gruel, Jimmy Wachtel, Michael Curtis - photography

    • Charts

    Album

    Singles

    Songs

    1Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School2:58
    2A Certain Girl3:05
    3Jungle Work3:52

    References

    Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Wikipedia
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