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"Mama Said" is a country rock ballad by American heavy metal band Metallica from their sixth album, Load, with music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Music video [ edit ]
"Mama Said" is a song performed by the Shirelles, written by Luther Dixon and Willie Denson. It became a top-ten hit, on both the pop and R&B charts, when it was released as a single in 1961. It became a top-ten hit, on both the pop and R&B charts, when it was released as a single in 1961.
"Mama Said" is a single by Danish recording act Lukas Graham. The song was released as a digital download on 23 June 2014 through Copenhagen Records . It achieved success in Denmark , Norway , Finland and Sweden .
"Mama Said" (Lukas Graham song), a 2014 single "Mama Said" (Metallica song), a 1996 country rock ballad "Mama Said" (The Shirelles song), in 1961 "Mama Said", a 2013 song by New Zealand boy band Moorhouse (band) "Mama Said", the third song from Carleen Anderson's 1994 album True Spirit
Rolling Stone ranked the song 29th in a 2012 list of the "50 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of All Time". [11] In October 2023, Billboard magazine ranked "Mama Said Knock You Out" number 406 in their list of the "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time". [4] Bob Dylan played it in the final slot of the "Mothers" episode of Season 1 of Theme Time Radio Hour in 2006.
The song was inspired by the 1961 Shirelles hit "Mama Said", written by Luther Dixon and Willie Denson. [3] Before making his big break as a solo artist, Irish singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy performed backing vocals for this song, as well as others throughout the album, and features heavily in the music video.
"Mama Tried" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in July 1968 as the first single and title track from the album Mama Tried. The song became one of the cornerstone songs of his career.
The lines "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed / Most peculiar, mama" are in contrast to the old adage "My mother told me there'd be days like this" (as in The Shirelles' song "Mama Said"). Yoko Ono called the track "kind of a fun song." She told Uncut in 1998: "I think that especially around that time he felt that ...