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"The Dean and I" | ||||
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Single by 10cc | ||||
from the album 10cc | ||||
B-side | "Bee in My Bonnet" | |||
Released | 25 August 1973 | |||
Genre | Art rock, glam rock | |||
Length | 2:46 (single version) 3:03 (album version) | |||
Label | UK Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lol Creme Kevin Godley | |||
Producer(s) | 10cc | |||
10cc singles chronology | ||||
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"The Dean and I" is a song by the art rock/pop band 10cc, from their 1973 eponymous debut album, written by Lol Creme and Kevin Godley. The song was released as the fourth single from the album in August 1973 and peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] [2] The single reached the top of the Irish Singles Chart on 20 September 1973.
The first real lines of the song are "Hey, kids, let me tell you how I met your mom. We were dancing and romancing at the senior prom". The epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton is mentioned in the lyric: "Now who would have guessed Milton's Paradise Lost could be found."
The song has been considered a parody of such sock hop songs as by Jerry Lee Lewis "High School Confidential", with the teenage romance ending in a midlife crisis and divorce. [3]
The album version of the song is slightly longer than the single version. Most of the material cut for the single release is from the introduction where the lyric on the album "Humdrum days and a humdrum ways" is sung repeatedly. The single version of the song can be found on the compilation Greatest Hits ... And More (2006)
A 1974 performance of the song appears on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert . The audio portion of a vintage mini-documentary chronicling the recording of the song in the studio was included in the limited edition 10cc box set "Tenology" in 2012.
The single released in Germany featured an alternative picture sleeve with the "balloons and bomb" logo which had been used for the album. [4]
The B-side "Bee in My Bonnet", by Stewart and Gouldman, was not included on the original album, but was included on the later re-issues of the album.
10cc are a British rock band formed in Stockport in 1972. The group initially consisted of four musicians — Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme — who had written and recorded together since 1968. The group featured two songwriting teams. Many regard Stewart and Gouldman as the predominant pop songwriters, and Godley and Creme as the more experimental half of 10cc. Some have described Godley and Creme’s songwriting as being inspired by art and cinema.
Godley & Creme were an English rock duo formally established in Manchester in 1977 by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The pair began releasing music as a duo after their departure from the rock band 10cc. In 1979, they directed their first music video for their single "An Englishman in New York". After this, they became involved in the production of videos for artists such as Ultravox, the Police, Yes, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Huey Lewis and the News and Wang Chung, as well as directing the groundbreaking video for their 1985 single "Cry". The duo split at the end of the 1980s. Both have since been involved in music videos, TV commercials, and sporadic music projects.
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