Your Mama Don't Dance

"Your Mama Don't Dance"
Single by Loggins and Messina
from the album Loggins and Messina
B-side "Golden Ribbons"
Released November 1972
Format 45-rpm record
Recorded 1972 at
Studio Columbia Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Rock and roll
Length 2:48
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina
Producer(s) Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina

"Your Mama Don't Dance" is a hit 1972 song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina. Released on their self-titled album Loggins and Messina, it reached number four on the Billboard pop chart[1] and number 19 on the Billboard Easy Listening Chart[2] as a single in early 1973.

This song, whose refrain and first verse is done in a blues format, deals with the 1950s and 1960s lifestyle concerning the generation gap, where the parents oppose the Rock and Roll Revolution, of the younger generation, which includes the rebelliousness against the old society that monitors curfews on dating, as well as being arrested for making love with a girl in the back seat of a car, during a drive-in movie, which happens during the bridge section of the song.

When released as a single, it was the duo's biggest hit as well as their only Gold single.

"Your Mama Don't Dance" was covered in 1973 by Australian band the Bootleg Family Band. It made the top 5 in Australia. "Your Mama Don't Dance" was covered in 1985 by the rock band Y&T, in 1988 by the rock band Poison, and it was the fourth single from their second album Open Up and Say...Ahh!. The Poison version released as a single in 1989 on Capitol Records reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 39 on the Mainstream rock charts and has since gone Gold in the US.[3] The song also charted at number 21 on the Australian charts and number 13 on the UK Singles chart.[4] The single's B-side is "Tearin' Down the Walls".

Albums

"Your Mama Don't Dance" is on the following albums:

Kenny Loggins' 1993 Solo Album:

The Poison version is available on:

The Y&T version is available on:

Personnel

Loggins & Messina version

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Poison version

"Your Mama Don't Dance"
Single by Poison
from the album Open Up and Say...Ahh!
B-side "Tearin' Down the Walls"
Released February 1, 1989
Format CD single, 7-inch single
Recorded 1988
Genre Glam metal[11]
Length 2:59
Label Enigma/Capitol
Songwriter(s) Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina
Producer(s) Tom Werman
Poison singles chronology
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
(1988)		 "Your Mama Don't Dance"
(1989)		 "Unskinny Bop"
(1990)
Chart (1989–90) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts 21
UK Singles Chart 13
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 39

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  2. ↑ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  3. ↑ "Allmusic (Poison charts and awards) Billboard singles".
  4. ↑ "Poison chart stats". Archived from the original on 2012-07-31.
  5. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Loggins & Messina – Your Mama Don't Dance" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  7. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Loggins & Messina – Your Mama Don't Dance" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  8. ↑ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  9. ↑ RPM Canada
  10. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1973/Top 100 Songs of 1973". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  11. ↑ Steve Huey. "Open Up and Say...Ahh! - Poison | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
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