NITE LIFE
Created on 07/08/2001Latest update on 21/03/2024
Artist: Paul Buskirk & His Little Green Men
Author: Willie Nelson/Paul Buskirk/Walt Breeland
Label: RX
Year: 1959
Paul Buskirk was the guitar teacher in Houston where Willie Nelson wrote songs for. Still under contract with D Records, where they disliked his song, Willie took it to this guitar teacher, gave him part of the credits for cutting it, sang it under alias Hugh Nelson and signed under alias Matthews. Meanwhile this song changed hands more than 30 million times.
Covers:
- 1963:
Willie Nelson [in '18 a version with Paul Buskirk as Night Life]
- 1963:
- 1963:
- 1965:
- 1966:
- 1967:
- 1969:
Chicken Shack [B-side of I'd Rather Go Blind as Night Life]
- 1974:
- 1980:
- 1980:
Flavium [as Nightlife]
- 1989:
- 1997:
- 1997:
B.B. King with Willie Nelson [all as The Night Life]
- 2000:
- 2006:
Little Willies [vocal: Norah Jones]
- 2009:
- 2010:
- 2016:
Cyndi Lauper [with Willie Nelson]
