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"Sharp Dressed Man" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top, released on their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham , and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning . Pre-production recording engineer Linden Hudson was very involved in the early stages of this song's production.
Warner hired filmmaker Tim Newman, [33] who also created videos for "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs". [34] The videos depicted America as "a land of rock and roll, cars and girls", [4] with three female models driving the Eliminator car. [34] The "Legs" video featured the debut of ZZ Top's spinning guitars, covered in white sheepskin. [35]
When she was younger, she worked as a model and actress, including as one of the three beautiful muses in the ZZ Top music videos "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Gimme All Your Lovin". She was also the Playboy Magazine Playmate of the Month in November 1980.
Lonestar released a version of the song in 2002 for the album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top. In 2011, American band Filter covered the song for the tribute album ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends. [10]
The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G in standard tuning. Bassist Dusty Hill has said the song was written at a sound check in about ten minutes. The recording was produced by Bill Ham and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.
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In their early years, they used the ZZ Top song "Sharp Dressed Man" as an entrance theme. One night they were approached and told that Dusty Hill was inviting them to meet him at a local bar in Texas, which Rogers and Fulton thought was a prank. When Hill actually showed up, they expected to be served with a cease and desist order for using the ...
Keirn and Lane were first brought together in early 1982. Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett decided to give the two ”Pretty boys” a big push right off the bat, shooting a couple of music videos starring Lane and Keirn set to ZZ Top’s "Sharp Dressed Man" and Billy Squier’s "Everybody Wants You" while wearing top hats, sequin tuxedos and the like.