Description
“Get A Leg Up” was a hit (#1 for three weeks on the Album Rock Tracks chart). During the video shoot Mellencamp met his future wife Elaine Irwin. This was direct in its sensual focus. So, the woman featured on the cover with Mellencamp is Elaine Irwin. The cover photo was taken during the shoot for the video for the hit single “Get a Leg Up.” The video was shot in July 1991; Mellencamp and Irwin didn’t see each other again until January 1992 when the Whenever We Wanted Tour pulled into New York City. They become a couple a short time later and were married in September 1992
Tracklist
A Get A Leg Up 3:47
B1 Whenever We Wanted 3:44
B2 Seventh Son 2:40
Label: Mercury
Catalog#: MERX 354
Format: vinyl, 12″, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1991
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Rolling Stones-like rock n roll only better
Engineer, Mixed By – Ross Hogarth (tracks: B2)
Mixed By – Jay Healy , Mike Wanchic
Written-By, Producer, Mixed By – John Mellencamp*
Recorded & mixed at Belmont Mall Studio, Belmont, Indiana.
Barcode: 0 42286 89991 6
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | “Get A Leg Up” | The Billboard Hot 100 | 14 |
| Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
“People think that songwriting is magic, and that I have no control over what happens,” he said in Mellencamp: American Troubadour. “Do you really think that after I wrote ‘Rain on the Scarecrow’ and ‘Jackie Brown,’ that I didn’t realize ‘Get a Leg Up’ was leaning in another direction?”
This newfound lyrical vigor was matched stride for stride with the kind of direct musical approach unheard since 1983’s Uh-Huh. “It’s very rock ‘n’ roll,” Mellencamp admitted in a talk with the Houston Chronicle in 1991. “I just wanted to get back to the basics.”
His music, his time warms every heart broken on the world. Here the sadness is banned, everything is energy for one day went out of style elegance. Swirling sense of love for the “rock” in the form of odour and female at the centre of humanity. Enjoy, enjoy and taste.
- John Mellencamp – vocals, guitar, hand percussion
- Kenny Aronoff – drums, percussion, vibes
- Mike Wanchic – guitar, background vocals
- Toby Myers – bass guitar, background vocals
- David Grissom – guitars
- John Cascella – Hammond B-3, accordion, penny whistle, Farfisa Organ
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