DANCING IN THE STREET

Created on 12/03/2002
Latest update on 14/09/2023

Artist: Martha & The Vandellas
Author: Marvin Gaye/William Stevenson/Ivy Jo Hunter
Label: Gordy
Year: 1964

Originally written for Kim Weston. Coauthor Marvin Gaye also refused to record it.

Covers:

1965:

Kinks

1965:

Richard Anthony [as Dans tous les pays]

1965:

Cilla Black

1965:

Rokes

1965:

Petula Clark

1965:

Brenda Lee

1965:

Walker Brothers

1965:

Everly Brothers

1966:

Who [BBC session]

1966:

Mamas And Papas

1967:

Ramsey Lewis

1968:

Rolling Stones [parafrased in Street Fighting Man; "Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street"]

1971:

Laura Nyro

1971:

Little Richard

1974:

Dovells

1976:

Donald Byrd

1977:

Grateful Dead

1978:

Neil Diamond

1980:

Fred Frith

1981:

Tim Curry

1982:

Van Halen

1983:

Tight Fit

1985:

David Bowie & Mick Jagger [on Live Aid and a n°1 UK & NL]

1990:

Kim Weston

1994:

Leningrad Cowboys

1997:

Kim Weston

2001:

Atomic Kitten

2010:

Sandrine

2022:

Rory Block

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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