Your Mama Don't Dance

Album: Loggins and Messina (1972)
Charted: 4
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  • Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't
    Rock and roll
    Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't
    Rock and roll
    But when evening comes around and it's time to
    Hit the town
    Where do you go, you gotta rock it

    The old folks say that ya gotta end your date
    By ten
    But if you're out on a date don't you
    Bring her home late 'cause it's a sin
    You know there's no excuse
    You know you're gonna lose you never win
    I'll say it again

    And it's all because your mama don't dance
    And your daddy don't rock and roll
    Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't
    Rock and roll
    When evenin' rolls around and it's time to
    Hit the town
    Where do you go, to rock it, rock it

    (lead)
    Everyone gather round let me tell you all
    About it
    You see I pulled into a drive-in and
    I found a place to park
    We hopped into the backseat where it's
    Always nice and dark
    I'm just about to move thinking to myself Mmm
    Bret this is a breeze
    Then there's a light in my eye and a guy says
    Out of the car long hair
    Oowee, you're coming with me
    Said the local police

    And it's all because your mama don't dance
    And your daddy don't rock and roll
    Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't
    Rock and roll
    When evenin' rolls around and it's time to
    Hit the town
    Where do you go, play me a little C.C.

    Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't
    Rock and roll
    Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't
    Rock and roll
    They just ain't cool and they ain't about to start
    Your mama don't dance and you daddy don't rock

    Your mama don't dance, no
    She just don't dance, no
    You mama don't dance
    And you daddy don't rock and roll, oww no Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • HenryHuh. I could swear the line is "Open the door, longhair!"
  • Al from Elkins Park, PaIn the lyrics:
    "Out of the car long hair
    Oowee, you're coming with me
    Said the local police."

    I always thought the line was:
    "Get outta the car, long hair
    Louie, you're coming with me
    To the local police!"

    Another lyric site has "Louise, you're coming with me, to the local police!" And says that Kenny Loggins had reused the name Louise in "Footloose"...
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 5th 1972, "Your Mama Don't Dance" by Loggins & Messina entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #89; and 11 weeks later on January 21st, 1973 it peaked at #4 {for 1 week} and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #19 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Tracks chart…
    Seventeen years later Poison covered the song; and on April 9th, 1989 their version peaked at #10 {for 1 week} on the Top 100 chart...
    Between April 1972 to October 1975 Loggins & Messina had ten Top 100 records; with "Your Mama Don't Dance" being their only Top 10 record...
    They did have two records make the Top 20; "Thinking of You" at #18 in 1973, then succeeded by "My Music", which reached #16, also in 1973.
  • Esskayess from Dallas, Tx'Outta da car, Longhair!!'
  • Sara from Silver Spring, MdIt was not based on "Mama Don't Allow"
  • Sara from Silver Spring, MdElvis didn't cover this, he included the first two lines in a medley so it was only "partly covered" by Elvis. Kenny Loggins has sung it in it in his various concerts often interloping other songs in the medley.
  • Garrett from Nashville, TnThis song sounds very influenced by the Everly Brothers.
  • Ken from Louisville, KyJim Messina was working as an "A&R" man for Columbia Records and when they signed Loggins, he was assigned to work with him. During Loggins' first recording sessions for Columbia, Messina was there to help with vocal harmonies and production. The pair worked so well together the album was named "Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sitting In". Columbia was so pleased with the results that they promoted them as a duo and shortened the album name to "Sitting In".
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