Spotify Release Info

Album Art

Track: Ooohhh Baby
Artist: Lou Reed
Album: Coney Island Baby

Artist Bio

Lou Reed Image

Name: Lou Reed
Spotify Genres: glam rock, proto-punk, art rock
Followers: 2,035,707
Popularity:

61/100

Biography

American musician, songwriter, poet, and photographer Born March 2, 1942, Brooklyn, New York - Died October 27, 2013, Southampton, New York Reed's music career began in 1958, when he recorded with his high school band, [a918897]. During his time at Syracuse University in the early 1960's he formed a series of bands, but was most deeply impacted by his professor, American poet and writer [a=Delmore Schwartz]. Following college, he became a stock songwriter/musician for [l206231], and then in 1964, with [a=John Cale], formed [a39766]. In 1970, he left the Velvet Underground during the recording of [url=https://www.discogs.com/master/35308-The-Velvet-Underground-Loaded]Loaded[/url]. He signed a contract with RCA Records in 1971 and continued to perform until shortly before his death. He was married to Bettye Kronstad (ca. 1973-1974), [a1870956] (1980-1994), and [a=Laurie Anderson] (2008).

Source: Discogs

Special Offer

Lou Reed on Amazon

Check this out

Popular Tracks on Spotify

Discogs Release Info

Release Cover

Release: Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Year: 1976
Genres: Rock
Styles: Classic Rock, Glam

SEE ALSO

Related Artists

Related Works

No additional relationship information found.

Source: MusicBrainz

LYRICS

You're the kind of girl everybody warned me about
You're the kind of person, that everybody's just staring at
But now you are a topless dancer
Working out of a bar on Times Spuare
And everybody wishes you were back down in some corner
Only Baby know

You make me go ooohhh baby ooohhh baby ooohhh baby
Ooohhh, ooohhh, ooohhh
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ooohhh baby
Ooohhh, ooohhh, ooohhh

Your old man was the best P and E man down on the streets
And all the guy in the precinct
Always was watching for him on the beat
But when he ripped off Seymour
He was really not a doing so fine
And everything is knots
Well except his hands and legs
And maybe even mime, you see
They just make them strip off

They say ooohhh baby, ooohhh ...

It's very funny asking me
Why they keep the lights on down so low
Well, yesterday's chase's today's competition
Or didn't you know
And the all fluorescent lighting
Make so your wrinkles, they don't show
And it's very funny
The way that 20 bucks an hour cannot go
If you don't make 'em go

Now, now, now, ooohhh baby, ooohhh ...

Everybody wondered 'bout you when you was seen in
Drinking some beer
You got here from Ohio and your mother said
You hooked her in the real near
That's the way it goes now

Ooohh baby, ooohhh ...