Yankee Rose (song)

"Yankee Rose" is a hard rock song recorded by David Lee Roth. It was written by Roth and Steve Vai and was Roth's first single on his 1986 first full-length album Eat 'Em and Smile. It was recorded as a tribute to the Statue of Liberty in New York City,[2] as the statue was completing a major renovation for the 100th anniversary of its dedication in 1886.

"Yankee Rose"
Single by David Lee Roth
from the album Eat 'Em and Smile
ReleasedJune 18, 1986[1]
Format7" Vinyl record
Recorded1986
GenreHard rock, glam metal
Length3:55
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)David Lee Roth, Steve Vai
Producer(s)Ted Templeman
David Lee Roth singles chronology
"Easy Street"
(1985)		 "Yankee Rose"
(1986)		 "Goin' Crazy"
(1986)

The song was Roth's third Top-40 hit, the first two being covers of "California Girls" and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody".

It also appears as a radio tune on the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the rock station "V-Rock". A cover of the song is the title song for the video game Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX performed by Teresa James.

Music video

The music video featured a prologue with a convenience store clerk observing various customers, including a newlywed couple arguing about a hotel room; a weasel-type played by Pete Angelus flanked by blonde bimbos, an obese woman screaming that her doctor says she needs to take a laxative, to which he replies, "Not in my store you don't!"; a woman he tries to hit on, as he notices she is buying breath mints; and finally, David Lee Roth in a tribal costume, who says, "Give me a bottle of anything...and a glazed doughnut...to go," and cuts to the start of the song.

See also

References
  1. "The Best" cd liner notes (1997)
  2. ""Yankee Rose" David Lee Roth". Rollingstone.com. 1986. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
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