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A list of songs about dinosaurs. Pages in category "Songs about dinosaurs" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
"Romeo" is a song written and produced by Dino, featuring a rap by Doctor Ice (of UTFO). [1] The song is the opening track on his second album Swingin' and was issued as the album's first single . It is Dino's biggest hit to date in the United States, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990.
Ticket fees were reduced to 10 shillings/50p to attract a younger audience. [15] The eponymous first T. Rex album, also recorded that summer, was released in December and continued the move to electric guitars. [13] In early 1971, T. Rex reached the top 20 of the official UK Albums Chart. [14]
When released in the UK in 1987, the song reached No. 10 on the singles chart, becoming the group's first UK top 10 hit. The music video features four scantily clad 'cavewomen' dancing while a Flintstones -style TV plays clips from Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur .
Yankovic was inspired to write the song after he heard The Kinks' song "Lola" while driving in his car one day, noting, "I was driving a rent-a-car through Florida when the song 'Lola' came on the radio, and it got me thinking about how much fun I had doing 'Yoda' [a song from 1985's Dare to Be Stupid] where I took a then-current topic and combined it with a classic rock tune."
The St. Petersburg Times deemed the release "an eight-song EP full of cacophonous noise and hectic delight." [11] The Hartford Courant called it "a searing EP."[12] The Seattle Times wrote that the EP showcases "the Dinosaur at its most irresistibly rapacious, the irreverent noisemakers The Replacements would have been if they hadn't turned into The Knack."
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The band did not have a top 40 hit after 1965, despite releasing records for five years thereafter. [4] The group released one album in 1965 and three albums in 1966. Dino, Desi & Billy albums contained primarily versions of Top 40 songs made popular by others, [9] with new content being minor.