B-side "The Crying Clown" Genre Rock Label A&M 1693 | Format 7" Length 4:02
3:30 (7" version) | |
Released 1975 (studio); February 1976 (re-release) | ||
"Show Me the Way" is a song written by Peter Frampton, which was originally released on his 1975 album Frampton and as a single, but gained its highest popularity as a song from his 1976 live album Frampton Comes Alive!. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming his biggest hit until "I'm in You" in 1977.
The song was one of Frampton's earliest to feature the talk box effect, which would become one of his signature sounds.
Covers
It has been covered by many artists. American alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr covered the song as a bonus track on their 1987 album You're Living All Over Me. In May 2000, Peter Frampton also performed this song with the Foo Fighters, on Late Show with David Letterman. The song was covered by Jake Kitchin in 2014, 2015, and 2016 for commercials for Uncle Ben's Beginners rice.
The song was later covered by Romanian recording artist Alexandra Stan. The track, extracted from her second studio album Saxobeats is of nu-disco genre. The song was produced by Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi in the Maan Studios.