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Dirty Water is a song composed in the 1960s and performed by the California rock and roll band, The Standells. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Sacramento Los Angeles Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi 410,000 km² 250 miles 400 km 770 miles 1,240 km 4. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
The Standells were a 1960s rock and roll band from Los Angeles, California who, like the The Seeds, exemplified the garage rock style. ...
It was their first major hit single (their earlier chart record, "The Boy Next Door," only reached #102 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Charts in February 1965) reaching #11 on the Billboard charts on June 11, 1966 and debuted April 30, 1966 on the Cash Box charts peaking at #8. An example of a Billboard Magazine. ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
Cash Box magazine was a weekly publication devoted to the music and coin-operated machine industry. ...
The song is a paean to the City of Boston and its famously polluted Boston Harbor and Charles River: Paean, in Homer, was the Greek physician of the gods. ...
Boston is a town and small port c. ...
Categories: Stub | Massachusetts geography | Boston ...
Charles River in Cambridge The Charles River is a small, relatively short Massachusetts river that separates Boston from Cambridge and Charlestown. ...
- Down by the River...
- Down by the banks of the River Charles
- (Oh, that's what's happenin' baby)
- That's where you'll find me
- Along with lovers, muggers, and thieves.
- (Ahh, but they're cool people)
- I love that dirty water (in reference the Harbor)
- Oh, Boston, you're my home".
It was also the title of the Standells' most successul LP, and their only nationally charted album. This LP charted on both Billboard and Cash Box peaking respectively at #52 and #39 during the summer of 1966. The Standells were a 1960s rock and roll band from Los Angeles, California who, like the The Seeds, exemplified the garage rock style. ...
An example of a Billboard Magazine. ...
Cash Box magazine was a weekly publication devoted to the music and coin-operated machine industry. ...
The song was produced by Ed Cobb and was originally issued on the Tower label, a subsidiary of Capitol Records.
British garage rock revivalists, The Inmates, covered "Dirty Water" in 1981, a version which was a medium sized international hit, and Boston punk band Dropkick Murphys often play the song live, affirming their love of their home city. Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that enjoyed wide success in the U.S.A. and Canada from 1963 to 1967. ...
The Inmates were a British garage rock/pub rock band in the early 1980s, who had a medium sized international hit with a cover of The Standells Dirty Water. The Inmates evolved out of power pop/pub rock/protopunk band Eddie & The Hot Rods. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dropkick Murphys are a Celtic Punk band formed in the Irish Catholic working class neighborhoods of South Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They practiced in the basement of a friends barbershop, blending punk rock, Oi!, Irish folk, rock, and hardcore into something they could call their own. ...
The Boston Red Sox baseball team plays the song immediately following a home victory at Fenway Park (much as their rival, the New York Yankees play New York, New York by Frank Sinatra whenever they win at Yankee Stadium). Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1903 AL Pennants (11) 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967 1946 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1904 • 1903 East Division titles (5) 1995 • 1990 • 1988 • 1986 1975 Wild card berths...
Fenway Park is the home ballpark for the Boston Red Sox baseball club. ...
Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (yes) 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1996 1978 • 1977 • 1962 • 1961 1958 • 1956 • 1953 • 1952 1951 • 1950 • 1949 • 1947 1943 • 1941 • 1939 • 1938 1937 • 1936 • 1932 • 1928 1927 • 1923 AL Pennants (39) 2003 • 2001 • 2000...
Theme from New York, New York (or just New York, New York) is the theme from the 1977 Martin Scorsese film New York, New York. ...
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is one of the highest acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time. ...
Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. ...
An ESPN special on the Red Sox showed that former Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo also covered the song while in a recording studio. His version appears on his album, "Covering the Bases" (which is entirely composed of cover songs), released in summer 2005. ESPN (once an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...
Bronson Anthony Arroyo [ah-ROY-yoh] (born February 24, 1977 in Key West, Florida) is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. ...
Dirty Water is also an improvised comedy set in South Boston and performed in Chicago. It features a cast of former Bostonians who play locals at a dive bar called Dirty Water. [1] Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
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