
Title: Little Willy
Label: RCA Victor
Country: Spain
Released: 1972
Style: Pop Rock, Glam
Cat: 3-10769
Rating: 4.4/5
Format: MP3, FLAC, WMA
FLAC size: 1923 mb | MP3 size: 2011 mb | WMA size: 2837 mb
1 | Little Willy | 3:13 |
2 | Man From Mecca | 2:45 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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74-16179 | The Sweet | Little Willy (7", Single) | RCA Victor, RCA | 74-16179 | Germany | 1972 |
BELL GT 129X | The Sweet | Little Willy / Man From Mecca (7", Single, RE, Bei) | Bell Records | BELL GT 129X | Canada | Unknown |
26.11022, 74-16179 | The Sweet | Little Willy (7", Single, RE) | RCA Victor, RCA Victor | 26.11022, 74-16179 | Germany | Unknown |
RCA 2225 | The Sweet | Little Willy (7", Single, Promo) | RCA Victor | RCA 2225 | UK | 1972 |
Bell 45,251 | The Sweet | Little Willy (7", Single, Mono, Promo) | Bell Records | Bell 45,251 | US | 1972 |
The Sweet was a compilation album released as Sweet's debut album in the US and Canada, substituting for the 1971 UK album Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be. The band's second album, Sweet Fanny Adams was also not given a US release, but tracks from that and the band's third album Desolation Boulevard were combined on the US version of that album to compensate for this. Текст песни: North side, east side Little Willy, Willy wears the crown Hes the king around town Dancing, performing Little Willy on BBC's Top Of The Pops in 1972. The song was written by Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn and produced by Phil Wainman The single. Cause little Willy, Willy won't go home But you can't push Willy 'round Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no Little Willy, Willy won't go home. Up town, down town Little Willy, Willy drives them wild with his run-around style Inside, outside Willy sends them silly with his star-shine shimmy shuffle smile. Mama done chase Willy down through the hall But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all Hey down, stay down, stay down down. Cause little Willy, Willy won't go home But you can't push Willy round Willy won't go, try te. Little Willy was Sweet's biggest US hit, peaking the charts at 3 when it was re-released in 1973. It was a non-album single, but went gold in the US and UK all by itself anyway. Critics in the UK dismissed the song as bubblegum and referred to the lyrics as nursery porn. Sweet wanted to shed their bubblegum glam-rock image and become more hardcore, so they later turned to writing their own songs. Putting this song together, Chinn and Chapman used a pounding drum beat popularized by Slade and producer Mike Leander. They mixed in the riff from the Who s. Band Name The Sweet. Album Name Featuring Little Willy and Blockbuster. Type Album. 发布日期 七月 1973. 出版公司 Bell Records. Little Willy. New York Connection. Wig-Wam Bam. Listen online to Sweet - Little Willy and see which albums it appears on. Scrobble songs and get recommendations on other tracks and in album Sweet - Action: The Sweet Anthology 2CD Compilation 2009. Sweet - Funny Funny. Sweet - Little Willy. Design Richard Mantel. Producer Phil Wainman. Written-By Scott tracks: A2, B4, B2 to B5, Connolly tracks: A2, B4, B2 to B5, N. Sweet - Little Willy - Top Of The PopsDisco 1972 OFFICIAL. О видео. The Sweet - Little Willy 3:12. The Sweet - New York Connection 3:36. The Sweet - Wig Wam Bam 3:10. Song by The Sweet. from the album The Sweet. Man from Mecca. Little Willy is a song written by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and performed by the British glam rock band The Sweet, released in 1972 as a non-album single in the UK, peaking at 4 in the best seller charts. It was released in the US in September 1972 and also appeared on their US debut album The Sweet and became their biggest hit in the US, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Little Willy was used extensively in the pilot of the television series Life on Mars. YouTube Encyclopedic