TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS - YOU GOT LUCKY

YOU GOT LUCKY

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

SongwriterS: tom pEtty & mike campbell

Country: u.s.a.

Album: "Long After Dark"

Label: backstreet

Genre: heartland rock

Year: 1982

Long After Dark is the fifth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in November 1982 on Backstreet Records. Notable for the major MTV hit "You Got Lucky", the album was also the first to feature the late Howie Epstein on bass and harmony vocals. Epstein's vocals are evident throughout the album, most notably on "Change of Heart". From this point on Epstein's vocals became an integral part of the Heartbreakers' sound. In addition, it was the first Heartbreakers album to feature a real synthesizer on record.

There was a song recorded for this album called "Keeping Me Alive", which Petty himself is very fond of but the producer, Jimmy Iovine, disliked. Petty has expressed that he feels the album would have turned out better if the song had been included on the album. "Keeping Me Alive" was eventually released on Petty's 1995 box set compilation Playback.

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury), and his early band Mudcrutch.

You better watch what you say

You better watch what you do to me

Don't get carried away

Girl, if you can do better than me, go

Yeah go but remember

Good love is hard to find

Good love is hard to find

You got lucky babe

Yeah, you got lucky babe

When I found you-

You put a hand on my cheek

And then you turn your eyes away

If you don't feel complete

If I don't take you all of the way, go

Yeah go, but remember good love

Is hard to find

You got lucky babe

Yeah you got lucky

When I found you