So everyone wears them (I go barefoot a bit, but that is another thread). What is your favorite song about shoes? I’ll start with:
PS: if you reply with a link to youtube (click on “share” on youtube to copy the link), then we can easily listen to your favorite.
(Disclaimer: I stole the idea of this thread from the master.)
I’m not sure I have any ‘favorites’ in the shoe song category, so here as some classics.
Awesome classics.
I was born in 63 and Nancy’s recording came out in 66, yet it is one of the sexiest songs to me.
Elvis, Blue Suede Shoes – more than classic maybe. Maybe the start of it all.
I saw Zombieland II, twice around December, about two weeks apart with my two 20+ sons. There is a scene in an Elvis museum of sorts where Tallahassee (grumpy Woody Harrelson) tries on Elvis’ original blue shoes. He loves Elvis. They don’t fit. They do fit on Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) LOL.
Both of these are on the Master’s list.
Loretta Lynn and Jack White - Little Red Shoes
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Loretta Lynn and Jack White - Little Red Shoes
Wow. Never heard that one.
Loretta Lynn
The master even missed that one.
Interesting, but I wouldn’t put it on my playlist.
But when I saw, “tigermilk,” I figured I’d be stumped.
H-Town Knockin’ the Boots
https://youtu.be/HrBnEaQd4ZY
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Wow. Paul Simon, Diamonds on the soles of my shoes.
You weren’t even born when that came out. I kept waiting for Chevy Chase. Was that another song from that album.
Oh, that is on the master’s playlist.
Those Shoes by The Eagles
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Backstory for Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes: Elvis Costello hadn’t yet formed The Attractions and went into the studio on his own; a San Francisco area band called Clover was in the studio at the same time and wound up backing him on the recording. Clover became better known a few years later as Huey Lewis and the News, and you can definitely hear their sound (as well as Huey Lewis singing backup) on this.
Nice. Never heard that one . Missed it, good song:
From wiki:
“Knockin’ da Boots” is the debut single from R&B group H-Town, taken from their debut album Fever for da Flavor. “Knockin’ Da Boots” became one of the biggest R&B singles of 1993 according to the Billboard charts, where it peaked at number three for seven weeks, and also topped the R&B chart for four weeks, and it helped win the band a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. Knockin’ Da Boots, was originally titled, “Knockin the Tennis Shoes” and was co written by Eric Coutryer in 1992 before it debuted in 1993. The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and sold over 1.1 million copies. The song contains replayed elements of “Be Alright” by Zapp.
Not on the master’s playlist.
(Of course, he will soon appear and say, “WTF, I made a playlist on spotify, and now you’re using it for some comparative purposes on ST?”)
Backstory for Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes: Elvis Costello hadn’t yet formed The Attractions and went into the studio on his own; a San Francisco area band called Clover was in the studio at the same time and wound up backing him on the recording. Clover became better known a few years later as Huey Lewis and the News, and you can definitely hear their sound (as well as Huey Lewis singing backup) on this.
Thanks. That is fascinating to me and I had not heard of Clover (but there is wiki). In college in the early 80s, a friend loaned me a bunch of Elvis Costello albums, including My Aim is True, which I recorded to cassette tape.
This one just popped into my brain… not sure why it wasn’t there before
Those Shoes by The Eagles
Those shoes.
So memorable a bass line. I can remember when this came out when I was in high school. Funny I never knew the title or that they were singing “those shoes.”
Blue Suede Shoes is a Carl Perkins’ song. Elvis was a cover.
New one.
I only knew stereophonics for song they did for Long Way Around – simple but great song. That is great live performance.
New one. I totally missed Throwing Muses in the day. That is a great song. Not Too Soon to become a fan.
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic. On the playlist. Great song. So familiar to me – that song is Traffic to me, so I was surprised to read this in wiki:
“The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” is the title song from the eponymous 1971 album by British rock band Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood. Despite never being released as a single due to its long duration, it became a staple of North American AOR-format FM radio stations in the 1970s and still receives airplay on classic rock radio today