![]() Jackson Browne – guitar, slide guitar on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" backing vocals on "A Certain Girl", "Play It All Night Long" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado".Rick Marotta – percussion, drums, vocals, bells, Syndrums.David Lindley – lap steel on "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" and "Play It All Night Long" guitar on "Wild Age".Jorge Calderón – guitar on "A Certain Girl" backing vocals on "Jungle Work".Warren Zevon – organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar, harmonica, piano, strings, keyboards, vocals.Record World said of the single "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" that "Zevon paints a picturesque fantasy of LA upper middle class absurdity." Track listing Īll songs written by Warren Zevon, unless otherwise indicated. The album was dedicated to Ken Millar (1915–1983), popularly known as mystery writer Ross Macdonald, who had assisted Zevon in fighting through substance abuse addiction and successfully completing related treatment. The term "dancing school" has been used as a euphemism for a brothel since the mid-17th century. "Play It All Night Long" is a bracing take on the presumed bleak realities of white southern rural poverty, or "country living". Three singles were released from the album, one of which charted: "A Certain Girl" (a cover of a song previously recorded by Ernie K-Doe and The Yardbirds) reached No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Zevon's second and final hit on that chart. The album was released on February 15, 1980, by Elektra Records. ![]() Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.
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