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In late 1978 and 1979, Ford used an edit from the instrumental sections of the song in its television ads for the '79 Ford Mustang. "Swingtown" appears in the soundtrack of the 1994 film My Girl 2. [9] "Swingtown" is used in the 2000 episode entitled "D-Girl" from the second season of the HBO series, The Sopranos.
The song lyrics tell the stories of several people from a town and the problems they faced growing up (unplanned pregnancy, unemployment, drug addiction, and suicide). Dexter Holland wrote the song after visiting his home town, Garden Grove , California , and discovering many of his old acquaintances had found problems in life.
The song was released in 1994 as the third single from the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and it reached number 38 on US's Billboard Hot 100, and number 26 in the UK Top 40. With its chart success, this song became the hit with the longest un-bracketed title at fifty-two characters as of 2007. [2]
It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock and roll record to reach the top ten on the pop charts (as opposed to the R&B charts), as it was a top-10 hit that year for both the Chords (who first recorded the song) and the Crew-Cuts. [2] In 2004, it was ranked No. 215 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time". [3]
The music video (filmed in black and white and directed by Steve Barron) and lyrics to the song are based on the film Whistle Down the Wind, about an escaped convict who runs into a group of children that mistake him for Jesus. [4] Actor Brad Dourif plays the convict, and new member Fergie Frederiksen appears as a murder victim. [4]
The music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy and conceptualized by Keith Williams. A man drives a beat-up convertible through a dust storm to a small town cafe to bring a bouquet to his girlfriend, who is a waitress there. A co-worker hands him a Dear John letter. After having his parked car ticketed for heading the wrong way, he spends a ...
Oklahoma chiropractor Joren Whitley saw Gerry the giraffe on Feb. 16 and posted a video of the session on April 16. The video now has over 682,000 views.
80's Ladies is the debut studio album by American country music artist K. T. Oslin, released on June 30, 1987, by RCA Records Nashville.The album was her first release on a second major label, propelling her to success into the mainstream country genre after her first failed attempt with Elektra Records, two singles released in 1982.