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“Your Mama Don't Dance” by Poison
From the album Open Up and Say… Ahh! (1988)
“Your Mama Don't Dance” by Poison appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1990 and 2022. It was first released in 1988 on the album Open Up and Say… Ahh!. Its best result is #344 on the 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,861 classic rock song of all time.
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Poison went digging through their parents' record collection for this one. "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina song, a 1972 hit for Loggins and Messina and the biggest the duo ever had, and Poison took their own swing at it on Open Up and Say... Ahh!, their 1988 album. The tune is a generation-gap romp: kids who want to rock, parents who want them home by curfew, and a drive-in date in the back seat that ends with an arrest.
Tom Werman produced it, Duane Baron engineered, and Werman, Baron and John Purdell mixed. The whole band is on it, with Bret Michaels out front, C.C. DeVille on guitar, Bobby Dall on bass and Rikki Rockett on drums. In Poison's run of releases it came after "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and before "Unskinny Bop".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 354 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2021 | 428 | WCSX | WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) | 499 |
| 2022 | 344 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
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