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Mass Production is an American funk/disco musical group, best known for their 1979 hit, "Firecracker." Based in Norfolk, Virginia, the ten-piece group had a series of minor R&B hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "Firecracker" is commonly misattributed to the similarly named (and sonically/stylistically similar) band Brass Construction.
The song also reached number one in the Netherlands. The song samples music from the 1979 hit song "Firecracker" by Mass Production and dialogue from the Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up? and the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket.
Firecracker (Lisa Loeb album), 1997; Firecracker (The Wailin' Jennys album), 2006; Firecracker EP by Unwed Sailor, 1999 "Firecracker" (Josh Turner song), 2007 "Firecracker", a song by Mass Production, 1979
"Firecracker" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Josh Turner. It was released in June 2007 as the lead-off single from Turner's album Everything Is Fine, which was released on MCA Nashville on October 30, 2007. [1] His fastest-climbing single, [1] the song reached a peak of number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country ...
In the "media circus" [9] attendant on these events, only the Washington City Paper, Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center and The Nation magazine published the offending lyrics. Christopher Hitchens , in a column on the last of these, citing the admonition on the cover of the album—"If you don't like the record, you can kiss our mother ...
Everything Is Fine is the third studio album by American country music artist Josh Turner, released on October 30, 2007. "Firecracker" was the first single released, reaching No. 2 on the Hot Country Songs charts, and was followed by "Another Try", which peaked at No. 15 on the same chart. The title track was released as the album's third ...
Firecracker is the second solo studio album by Lisa Loeb. It was released in 1997 through Geffen Records . Its cover features original artwork by illustrator Mark Miller, who transposed Loeb on to one of his original artworks, "Kitten".
Firecracker is the second album by The Wailin' Jennys. The album was rated the #2 folk album of 2006 in North America by total airplay, and the #1 Canadian album. The initial track, "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" by Annabelle Chvostek , was rated the #1 Canadian song for 2006 by total airplay.