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In 2013, Mellencamp told Rolling Stone, "I wanted to write a song that said, 'You don't have to live in New York or Los Angeles to live a full life or enjoy your life.' I was never one of those guys that grew up and thought, 'I need to get out of here.' It never dawned on me. They said, 'You've got to be kidding.' What else can you say about it?" Mellencamp later told The Wall Street Journal that he had written the lyrics using an electronic typewriter that beeped whenever he misspelled a word, which had amused the people listening upstairs however, they were silenced when he played the song to them.
And the people upstairs could hear me writing and they were all laughing when I came up. "We had company, and I had to go write the song. "I wrote that song in the laundry room of my old house," Mellencamp told American Songwriter magazine in 2004. The music video has references to both towns. Mellencamp wrote the song about his experiences growing up in a small town in Indiana, having been born in Seymour, Indiana, and living in Bloomington, Indiana, which, at the time of the release of the song, was larger. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #13 Adult Contemporary. " Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his 1985 album Scarecrow. John Cougar Mellencamp singles chronology That winter, Mellencamp received his first Grammy nomination, thanks to his vocal performance on the song.1985 single by John Cougar Mellencamp "Small Town" 1 spot by Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” which was taking the world by storm at the same time. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, only being withheld from the coveted No. Then, they headed twenty miles southwest of Mellencamp’s hometown, Seymour, Indiana, to the small town Medora, Indiana, to film a rousing music video (it was ‘82-MTV was a year old).īy August of 1982, “Hurts So Good” peaked at No. Not too long after, Mellencamp got into Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles with drummer Kenny Aronoff, bassist George “Chocolate” Perry, and guitarists Larry Crane and Mike Wanchic, and the track was immortalized on tape. Then I went and picked up the guitar, and within seconds, I had those chords.” Speaking years later with American Songwriter’s Paul Zollo, he explained that he and Green “exchanged lines back and forth between each other, and laughed about it at the time. Herald-Examiner that the opening quote from this article came from.
“We thought of it as like a Shel Silverstein thing-it was really just a joke,” Mellencamp said in the same 1982 interview with The L.A.
With the spark lit, the two immediately pounced on the idea. “I was still dripping wet when I got dressed, walked out of my bedroom, and said to my old songwriting friend George Green, ‘Hey! I just thought of a great chorus.’” “I literally dreamt up that song in the shower in my house in Bloomington,” Mellencamp wrote in the liner notes of The Best That I Could Do (1978-1988).
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