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"Mama Said" went number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the R&B chart [1] and has been covered by American Spring, Melanie, Dusty Springfield, the Stereos, the Growlers, and a young Dionne Bromfield. It was also the inspiration for "Days Like This" by Van Morrison. Nick Lowe covered it on his 2001 album, The Convincer.
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.
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 ...
At the time of its release in 1995, Days Like This was Morrison's best selling non-compilation album and was nominated for the Mercury Music Award. [6] David Sinclair in Q describes the album as a "glorious return to form", while the Entertainment Weekly reviewer found that "Days Like This, is too perfunctory to call it a return to form, but surprisingly, there is real spark."
The music video for the song features James Hetfield sitting in the backseat of a car while playing the song on an acoustic guitar. The vehicle appears to be driving along a Southwestern highway, and at one point the other members of Metallica are seen outside looking into the window as it passes by.
"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 .
"Days Like This" (Van Morrison song), 1995 "Days Like This", a song by Sheena Easton on The Lover In Me, 1989 "Days Like This" (Rachel Proctor song), 2003 "Days Like This" 2023 song by Martin Jensen and Jay Sean; Days Like This (Radio Ulster), a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster; Days Like This, a 2001 film directed by Mikael Håfström
Mama Said is the second studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released in April 1991 by Virgin Records. Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash co-wrote and played on the song "Always on the Run". He also played on the song "Fields of Joy". The song "All I Ever Wanted" was co-written by Sean Lennon.