![]() I don't think there's any other song that we've ever worked on, any other record that we made, that would have done that for us quite that way. Tommy James (from his Songfacts interview): "'Crimson and Clover' was so very important to us because it allowed us to make that move from AM Top 40 to album rock. He wrote it, produced it, and played all the instruments with the drummer." Tommy says, 'come here,' so I went in the room, listened to what he'd been doing and said, 'Oh, my God.' Everybody kind of deserted Tommy, and he went off and just did this incredible song. There was the Brill building, and in the basement was this great studio. I'll never forget it, it was in Allegra studios on 1650 Broadway. You can't go trying to do it yourself, you don't know how to write hit songs.' So he went off with the drummer and created this song. ![]() ![]() It will be the end of your career.' We went to Tommy and said, 'Look Tommy, if you don't get someone to write the songs for you, you're going to be dead meat. In those days, the legend, Morris Levy, said he was not going to be pushed around and said, 'Fine, you want to quit, quit. Bo wasn't getting paid from Roulette Records, so he went on strike and refused to make any more Tommy James records. Kenny told us how this song came together: "Bo Gentry wrote all these songs for Tommy James, from 'I Think We're Alone Now' right on through 'Mony Mony.' There were other co-writers, but Bo was the genius, the driving force. ![]() He played keyboards and sang backup as a member of The Shondells. As much as I would not want this song to be about that, & while it most likely isn’t, you could also totally see a sexual predator thinking exactly that way, maybe even more so back then.Kenny Laguna is a songwriter and producer who has worked with Joan Jett ever since she started as a solo artist. The part that goes in another direction & who knows if it’s the year we live in, maybe not (things happened back then that weren’t discussed, allowed to get away with), yes I am bringing up the possibility of a sexual predator, while they might not have been considered that in those days, everything was hush hush, either way it’s a little scary when you listen to the lyrics and you realize, he could be out looking for girls, what he wants to do, over and over “Crimson”, bad and “Clover”, the innocent possible victim of the night. In complete truth and possibly not even any wrong feelings, they say a guy thinks about sex, every 7 seconds, probably less, however, still a lot of times & the stats are way more than women, so this could simply be a very honest account of a guys feelings. It could be an actual extreme truth of male sexual feelings when young, and opposed to a female, (my such a sweet thing, want to do everything, over and over Crimson & Clover - his possible immediate lust & her possible innocence and sweet, not wanting to jump right in, usually & especially back then a sweet innocent girl would likely want a relationship first, long-term, back then probably even marriage first. The lyrics are originally from a guy, Tommy James, after really listening to The words of a song I’ve always liked, it seems pretty clear, he talks about seeing her, not knowing her, but could love her, she walks over, been waiting to show her, “Crimson and Clover, over and over”, what a sweet thing, I want to do everything, “Crimson and Clover, over and over”, it pretty much sums up (especially in the time it was written, the lust a guy has (Crimson) & what he wants to do right away (been waiting to show her, over and over, I want to do everything - he just saw her for the first time), yet the sweet innocence, quite possibly young female (Clover, also green) possibly virgin, (even if not a virgin, what a guy might have in his mind seeing a beautiful girl right away, while what a girl might be thinking, he looks cute, and more of an innocent flirtation).
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