Come on Eileen
| Come on Eileen | |
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| Dexys Midnight Runners | |
| publication | June 29, 1982 |
| length | 4:15 (single version) 3:28 (short version) |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock |
| Author (s) | Kevin Rowland , Jimmy Patterson, Kevin Adams |
| Publisher (s) | EMI Music |
| album | Too-rye-ay |
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Come On Eileen is a song by Dexy's Midnight Runners and The Emerald Express from the year 1982 , that of Kevin Rowland was written, Jimmy Patterson and Kevin Adams. It appeared on the album Too-Rye-Ay and was released on June 29, 1982. The single release was the most successful in the band's history and the only number one hit in the United States .
backgrounds
The text of the song comes from Kevin Rowland and is autobiographical. As a teenager he was an altar boy and his Irish Catholic relatives taught him that sex was dirty. The former candidate for the priesthood incorporated this into the lyrics. The story is about the teenage Rowland's relationship with a girl and the couple's first sexual experience together. Until then, the relationship had been pure, the sex had given her something dirty. Rowland tried to convey this feeling with the lyrics. However, Eileen was not the name of the girl who inspired Rowland to write the lyrics.
About a year before the album Too-Rye-Ay was released , the band Dexys Midnight Runners had changed both their musical style and their image. She performed in overalls with sandals and bandanas and had added elements of Celtic folklore to her music . The violins were made in collaboration with the Ensemble Emerald Express . This new image and the sound, based on the English brass bands and enriched with strings, found its first climax with the release of Come On Eileen as the first single from the album Too-Rye-Ay . Rowland saw the single as a last chance, if it were not a success, he wanted to turn away from music and earn his money in another way.
Commercial win
The song became a number one hit in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and Belgium. In the music video, Eileen was played by Máire Fahey, Siobhan Fahey's sister .
Cover versions
- 1982: Leinemann (meeting point Bärlin)
- 1996: Skyclad
- 1997: Save Ferris
- 2001: Black Lace
- 2002: Badly Drawn Boy
- 2005: Hermes House Band
- 2006: Nouvelle Vague
- 2011: Sugarland
literature
- Fred Bronson: Come On Eileen . In: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Updated and Expanded 5th Edition . Billboard Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 570 .
Web links
- Come On Eileen at Allmusic (English)