![]() ![]() #STRAY CAT STRUT LYRICS CODE#Get the embed code Stray Cats - Stray Cats Ball: No Dogs Allowed Album Lyrics1.Oh Boy (acoustic version)2.Rock This Town (live)3.Stray Cat Strut (acoustic version)Stray Cats Lyrics provided by Singin' the blues while the lady cats cryīut I got cat class, and I got cat style" Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night The song became a hit in the US, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, over a year after it had reached its number eleven peak in the UK. In the US, the song was first released in 1982 on Built for Speed. I slink down the alley looking for a fight 'Stray Cat Strut' is the eighth track on the Stray Cats' debut album, Stray Cats, released in 1981 in the UK. I don't bother chasing mice around, oh, no Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man I'm a feline Casanova (Hey, man, that's where it's at) ![]() The band tour Europe and the US in July and August.Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence I had a weimaraner.Ĥ0 by Stray Cats, their first album in 26 years, is out on Surfdog Records. The name Stray Cats was a nod to Elvis Presley, the “hillbilly cat”, and how the early rockers called each other “cats”. It didn’t sound like an old rockabilly record but had the same essence: a song you could crank up on a car radio. Our first hit, Runaway Boys, documented what we were going through. We ended up on Arista, who put us in the studio with Dave Edmunds – he knew everything about the original rockabilly but also understood that the kids wanted heroes from their own peer group and that we needed a contemporary sound. ![]() We almost signed to Rolling Stones Records, but it was hard to get those guys in the same place. The Rolling Stones all came to see us and poured us champagne. The Stray Cats on stage at the Markthalle in Hamburg in 1981, with Brian Setzer singing and Slim Jim Phantom in the background. Once the music press started writing about us, everything happened like wildfire. The original group of people that came to see us included Chrissie Hynde, Joe Strummer, Lemmy and Glen Matlock – a gang of all the hipsters in London. We got on a plane wearing all our gear and found this whole counterculture in London. #STRAY CAT STRUT LYRICS MODS#We wrote Rumble in Brighton about mods and rockers on Brighton beach having never been there – but we were keen to visit. We avidly read the British music press and felt more comradeship with British youth culture. In 1979, we were playing two sets a night in Long Island but people on the street were hostile: “Who are you looking at?” Nobody looked like us then. Years later he told me: “I only did it for the photos, man.” I’d seen pictures of their drummer, Dickie Harrell, playing drums standing up, so I played like that too. We modelled the band on Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps. ![]() Brian and I shared a flat and combing our hair became a daily drill. Then I got the clothes from a thrift store. When I first heard rockabilly, I sprayed my hair with Elnette into a quiff so hard it felt frozen. James McDonnell, AKA Slim Jim Phantom, drummer I played the guitar solo out of thin air, on the spot, probably thinking: “I wanna to do something that will bend your ear, something unexpected.” It’s crazy that it’s become one of the most famous solos ever. #STRAY CAT STRUT LYRICS TV#I was a big fan of the cartoon TV series, Top Cat. The line about a “feline Casanova” depicts a wise-guy cat. I sang “Black and orange stray cat sittin’ on a fence” because I had a black and orange cat sticker on my guitar. At that point, we were still called the Tomcats, but it became “stray” when we went to London, because we had wandered. It’s about us three guys, and the lives we were living. I wanted something slower than our other songs. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut (Letras y cancin para escuchar) - Black and orange stray cats sitting on a fence / Aint got enough dough to pay the rent. I came up with Stray Cat Strut back in our garage in Long Island when I was 18. ![]()
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