Gotta find a friendly city. First known live performance: 05/02/1981 Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO, USA. Find more lyrics at ※. Song title: Kansas City. Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes ("for press use") by record companies, artist managements and p. agencies. Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City chords. Rockers Canned Heat latched onto the message and took their own version into the top 40 later that year. Savoy sent him packing. Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. A Well I might take a train, I might take a plane, but if I have to walkD I'm going just the same, I'm going to Kansas CityA Kansas City here I comeE7 A They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me If I stay with that woman I know I'm going to dieHave to find a friendly baby that's the reason whyD A I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come. Anyway, please solve the CAPTCHA below and you should be on your way to Songfacts.
Well I might take a train I might take a plane, but if I have to walk I'm going just the same I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come They got some crazy lil' women there And I'm gonna get me one. I might take a plane. Harrison recorded "Kansas City" for the Harlem-based entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, who released it on his Fury record label. Read more: Bril & Broadway 2 Lyrics.
Tempo: Moderate Blues. All correct lyrics are copyrighted, does not claim ownership of the original lyrics. They got a crazy way of loving there. A I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come, D A I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come. Might take a train, might take a plane, (One more time). At the height of the song's success, Robinson got sued by Savoy Records who informed them that the release of the record in March 1959 violated a contract Harrison had with that label that was to expire in August 1959. Four more singles were spread out over the next three years, a pleasant but poor-selling batch of romantically-inclined tunes penned by Harrison. Bobby refrained from releasing a follow-up on Wilbert for several months and even put Fury on hold, instead starting another imprint, Fire, named after his publishing company. Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song.
A stirring five minute blues piece split into two parts, some copies of "Let's Work Together" show the artist as Wilbert Harrison One Man Band, a badge the multi-instumentalist had proudly worn for years; the record hit the top 40 in January '70, effectively removing him from the "one-hit wonder" file. Or perhaps the barbeque? Nobody will know where I've gone. Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison. © 2023 The Musical Lyrics All Rights Reserved. Hank, Rocky and Richard's records all hit the Hot 100, cashing in to varying degrees, but Harrison's chart-cresting million seller left them in the dust. Barefootin' - Robert Parker. Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind. Played once in the whole Wrecking Ball tour (17/11/2012 Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO, USA).
Sticking with Marshall Sehorn, Wilbert had a minor hit around the country with "Near to You" on the Sea-Horn label, getting solid radio play in Detroit and San Francisco in the final weeks of 1963, just as Los Angeles nightclub fave and "If I Had a Hammer" hitmaker Trini Lopez emerged with a "Live at PJ's" release of "Kansas City" (using Wilbert's version of the lyrics), a top 30 hit at year's end, technically making it the second most successful version of the song. He'd hit the reset button again with Fury Records, two years in operation as of early '59 with nearly two dozen single releases and no hits. Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted. Additional Performers: Form: Song. The song was written in 1952 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville. Disclaimer: makes no claims to the accuracy of the correct lyrics. A E7 With my Kansas City baby, D A And a bottle of Kansas City wine. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. By: Instruments: |Voice, range: C4-D5 Ukulele C Instrument|. To kick off the series, I explore the idea of Kansas City as a "destination in song" with music historian Chuck Haddix. Yeah, yeah, they got some crazy little women there. You may also like...
Of Kansas City wine. On their late-'64 album Beatles For Sale (appearing in the U. S. some months later on the album Beatles XI and a Capitol Starline single); for many it's the preferred recording strictly due to its inclusion in the inventory of the all-time most successful rock group. Robinson was sued by Lubinsky, who claimed he still had Harrison under contract. Writer(s): JERRY LEIBER, MIKE STOLLER
Lyrics powered by. Wilbert Harrison Lyrics. I know I'm gonna die, gotta find a friendly city and that's the reason why. Played during the 'Summer '89 bar tour', which is the name under which I group the 1989 shows Bruce played with various small bands, or guesting, between March and September 1989.
By the time Wilbert took it on, that part of the lyrics had been changed to 'they got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one. ' Lyrics powered by Link. Four additional versions quickly started making the rounds: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters on King, Rocky Olson on Chess, Rockin' Ronald and the Rebels on End and a reissue of Littlefield's original, retitled to avoid getting lost in the it did anyway.
Notes: Played as part of the Detroit Medley during some Kansas shows, as well as a stand-alone song in some off-tour appearances. © 2023 All rights reserved. This could be because you're using an anonymous Private/Proxy network, or because suspicious activity came from somewhere in your network at some point. But if I could walk I'm going just the same. That's the reason why. Everybody will be sleeping. I'm gonna pack my clothes, leave at the break of dawn. This song has never been published on any official release. I'm gonna pack my clothes, everybody will be sleeping. The lawsuit was settled in Fury's favor; when the follow-up single, "Cheating Baby, " came out late in the year, it unfairly fell on deaf ears.