Grow Some Funk of Your Own
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| “Grow Some Funk of Your Own” | |||||
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| Single by Elton John from the album 'Rock of the Westies' |
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| B-side | "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" | ||||
| Released | January 12, 1976 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:16 (single version) 4:48 (album version) |
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| Label | MCA (US/Canada) DJM Records |
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| Writer(s) | Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Bernie Taupin | ||||
| Producer | Gus Dudgeon | ||||
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"Grow Some Funk of Your Own" is the name of a song by Elton John. It was released as a single in 1976 and comes from his album Rock of the Westies. It shared its A-Side status with "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)". The song went to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Although the singles chart listed only "Funk" and not "Bullet", the latter song was given equal billing in later Billboard singles chart books.
[edit] Music
This is one of Elton's hard rock songs in the tradition of "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)", "All the Girls Love Alice", "The Bitch is Back" and "Pinball Wizard". It also appeared on Greatest Hits Volume II in 1977.
[edit] Synposis
The song is about a guy visiting Mexico who falls for a woman, but her boyfriend threatens him and wants for him to leave to go back to where he came from.
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