SULTANS
OF SWING
DIRE STRAITS
SONGWRITERS:
MARK KNOPFLER & JOHN ILLSLEY
COUNTRY: U.K.
ALBUM:
DIRE STRAITS
LABEL: VERTIGO RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1978
Dire Straits é o álbum de estreia da extinta banda de rock inglesa
Dire
Straits, lançado em 1978. As suas principais músicas compostas por Mark
knopfler e John Illsley de sucesso são "Down to the
Waterline", "Water of Love" e "Sultans of Swing".
"Sultans of Swing" is a song by the British rock band
Dire Straits from their eponymous debut album, which band frontman Mark Knopfler wrote and composed. Although it was first
released in 1978, it was its 1979 re-release that caused it to become a hit in
both the UK and U.S.
The song was first recorded as a demo at Pathway Studios, North London, in July 1977
and quickly acquired a following after it was put on rotation at Radio London. Its popularity soon reached
record executives, and Dire Straits were offered a contract with Phonogram Records. The song was then
re-recorded in February 1978 at Basing
Street Studios for the band's debut album.
The record company wanted a less-polished rock sound for the radio, so an
alternative version was recorded at Pathway Studios in April 1978 and released
as the single in some countries including the United Kingdom and Germany.
You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear that music ring
You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
But the horns be blowing that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth london town
You check out guitar george he knows all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm
He doesn't want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under lights to play his thing
And harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
He can play honky tonk like anything
Saving it up for friday night
With the sultans... with the sultans of swing
And a crowd of young boys
They're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies
And their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the sultans... yea the sultans played creole
...creole
Then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
'goodnight, now it's time to go home'
And he makes it fast with one more thing
'we are the sultans... we are the sultans of swing'
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