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"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a 1969 song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band Steam. It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number-one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970.
"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" is a song by Leonard Cohen. [1] It was first released in November 1967, in a version by Judy Collins on her album Wildflowers.The following month, Cohen's own version was issued on his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen.
Steam was an American pop rock music group, best known for their 1969 number one hit single, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". [1] The song was written and recorded by studio musicians Gary DeCarlo (aka Garrett Scott), Dale Frashuer, and producer/writer Paul Leka at Mercury Records studios in New York City.
"Hello, Goodbye" (sometimes titled "Hello Goodbye") is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Backed by John Lennon 's " I Am the Walrus ", it was issued as a non-album single in November 1967, the group's first release since the death of their manager, Brian Epstein .
The song contains a sample of Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An uptempo dance pop track, the lyrics of the song deal with DeBarge getting over her ex-boyfriend. [ 4 ] A music video was released to promote the song, which features DeBarge and her friends stealing her ex-boyfriend's car and driving to various ...
The lyrics of the song, particularly the line "out of the blue and into the black", are an epigraph and are also featured prominently in Stephen King's novel It. [ 15 ] The line, "It's better to burn out than to fade away", was included in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain 's suicide note in 1994. [ 16 ]
Although such a record was unusual for a teenage group, "Never Can Say Goodbye" was a number-two hit for three consecutive weeks on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, stuck behind Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" (May 8–22, 1971), and a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the United States. [3]
"My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" is a song by Canadian musician Neil Young. An acoustic song, it was recorded live in early 1978 at the Boarding House in San Francisco, California . Combined with its hard rock counterpart " Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) ", it bookends Young's 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps . [ 2 ]