 Genius Meanings
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The Trammps – Hold Back The Night
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[Chorus] / Hold back the night, turn on the lights / Don't wanna dream about you, baby (Dream about you, baby) / Hold back the night, turn on the lights / Don't wanna dream about
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The Trammps – Rubber Band
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The song by the Trammps goes to speak on an unfortunate breakup between two people with the story being likened to various things including the topic of the elasticity of a rubber
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The Trammps – La-La (Means I Love You)
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Many guys have come to you / With a line that wasn't true / And you passed them by (passed them by) / Now you're in the center ring / And their lines don't mean a thing / Why don't
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The Trammps – Love Epidemic
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Say we're gonna spread the love epidemic / All around the world / People, now spread it to every man / Boy, woman and girl / Listen people / It's gonna make you love me, brother
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The Trammps – That's Where the Happy People Go
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(Slow musical interlude) / (Piano solo) / I used to spend most of my time just being alone / Yes I did / Nothing to do, no place to go / Just stayed at home / So I put my blues up
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The Trammps – Disco Inferno
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“Disco Inferno” is a 1976 song by The Trammps. At its original release it reached 53 on the Billboard Top 100. It did not find major success until being released on the “Saturday
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The Trammps – Where Do We Go From Here
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These / Half-truths you're telling me won't / Bring me to my knees / Scraped up and bruised from your / Fickleness I plead / Just let me feel some ease from / Creatures of your
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The Trammps – Shout
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I feel alright / Now that I got you, my woman / I just want you to know / I feel pretty good / Just come on, uh / Just come on, y'all, come on / Just come on / Oh, you make me
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The Trammps – Penguin At The Big Apple/Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
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Ha, look here, mm hmm / Strings of my heart, baby / Sing for you / Dear, when you smiled at me (Mm hmm) / I heard a melody (Yeah) / It haunted me from the start / Something inside
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The Trammps – Hooked for Life
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Since the day, you gave your love to me / Oh, I confess I need it constantly / No remedy could ever cure / This pain you have on me / So I'm yours, my dear / Until eternity, it's
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The Trammps – Whisky in the jar
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As I was going over the Kilmagenny mountains / I met with captain Farrel and his money he was counting / I first prodused my pistol, and then I drew my sabre / Saying: "Stand and
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The Trammps – Penguin At The Big Apple
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[Instrumental]
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The Trammps – Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
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I gave my heart and soul to you, girl / Didn't I do it baby didn't I do it baby / Gave you the love you never knew, girl / Didn't I do it baby didn't I do it baby / I've tried so
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The Trammps – Disco Inferno (Re-Recorded)
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[Intro] / Come on, mm / Everybody / Sing along / [Chorus] / Burn, baby, burn / Burn, baby, burn / Burn, baby, burn / Burn, baby, burn, burning / [Verse 1] / To my surprise, listen
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The Trammps – Don't Burn No Bridges
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I'm through with illusions just delusions for now / I've took a step to the edge but / I've been walking for miles / It was a very temporary waste of time / Is there really such a
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The Trammps – Sixty Minute Man
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Look-ee here girls I'm telling you now / They call me Lovin' Dan / I rock'em, roll'em all night long / I'm a sixty minute man! / If your man ain't treatin' you right / Come on and
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The Trammps – Motown Philly (Boys II Men Cover)
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Motown philly back again / Doing a little east coast swing / Boyz ii men going off / Not too hard, not too soft / Its long overdue but now / Philly's slammin / Boyz ii Men, ABC
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The Game (Ft. 50 Cent) – Hate It or Love It
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“Hate It or Love It” sees Game and 50 Cent celebrating their rags-to-riches story over a sample of The Trammps‘ 1972 song, “Rubber Band.”
This track was the third official single
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The Trammps – Just Say The Word
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I'm holdin' on / To pictures on my telephone / And I know that I should let you go / But it's hard to break away / I ask around / And I wonder what you're doing now / But I hear
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Lipps, Inc. – Funkytown
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The 1979-80 signature disco hit - considered the unofficial last and ending the disco era in pop/rock. Spent 4 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts (and in numerous others
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J Dilla – Dilla Says Go
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“Dilla Says Go” is built around a few samples. J Dilla primarily lifted the instrumental from The Trammps‘ 1972 track “Rubber Band,” and looped snippets of the vocals to give this
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Tramps – Tim Finnegan's Wake
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Tim Finnegan live in walking street / A gentle Irishman mighty odd / He had a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet / And to rise in this world he carried the hod / You see he had a
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Rob Zombie – Dragula
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Zombie told Billboard magazine that the title came from “the name of Grandpa Munster’s dragster on the old TV show.” He goes on to say that it “was a classic show with great comic
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Gerard Joling (Ft. The Trammps) – Disco Inferno
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[Intro] / Burn baby burn / Burn baby burn / Burn baby burn / Burn baby burn / Burning / [Verse 1] / To my surprise - listen - one hundred stories high / People getting loose y'all
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Mobb Deep (Ft. Big Twins & Ty Nitty) – Animal Instinct
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Samples:
- That’s Where the Happy People Go by The Trammps
- Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss
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The Hood Internet – 1976
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One, two, three, four / Guess who just got back today? (Hoo-hoo-hoo!) / Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away (Hoo-hoo-hoo!) / They were askin' if you were around (Ooh, somebody
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Glee Cast – Disco Inferno
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“Disco Inferno” is featured in Saturday Night Glee-ver, the sixteenth episode of Season Three. It is sung by Mercedes (Amber Riley), with back-up vocals from Brittany (Heather
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The Isley Brothers – Shout (Pt. 1 & 2)
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A classic love-makes-you-scream call-and-response song, covered by many including Lulu, Green Day, and of course, the band from Animal House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Judy Garland – Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
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A 15-year-old Judy Garland first sang this song for the 1938 film Listen, Darling and then re-recorded it several times throughout her career.
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Boyz II Men (Ft. Michael Bivins) – Motownphilly
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“MotownPhilly” is the very first single of Boyz II Men’s career. It appeared on their debut album, Cooleyhighharmony.
The music video features a cameo appearance from Philly
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The Dominoes (Ft. Bill Brown, Billy Ward, Charlie White, Clyde McPhatter & Joe Lamont) – Sixty Minute Man
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Released on Federal Records.
Written by Billy Ward and Rose Marks.
‘Sixty Minute Man’ remained for thirty consecutive weeks in the top ten of Billboard Magazine’s rhythm & blues
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