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"Take the Money and Run" is a song recorded in 1976 by the Steve Miller Band. A song about two young (possibly teenage) bandits and the detective pursuing them, it was one of the many hit singles produced by the Steve Miller Band in the 1970s and featured on the 1976 album Fly Like an Eagle.
"Don't Take the Money" is a song recorded by American indie pop act Bleachers from their second studio album Gone Now (2017). Frontman Jack Antonoff co-wrote the song with New Zealand singer Lorde , while production was handled by Antonoff, Greg Kurstin and Vince Clarke .
The song backed with "Kiss Her Three Times" was released on the Impact label, Cat no. IR 1079 in 1972. For the week ending 18 November 1972, Billboard recorded the N.Z. chart position of the song at no. 2, having moved from the previous week's position of no. 3. [4]
The group recorded 36 takes, selecting take 30 as the best, which was made into a rough stereo mix. [8] The basic structure of the song as it appeared on Abbey Road had not been worked out at this stage, and the original recording ran onto a loose jam session , ending up as a fast rock-and-roll instrumental towards the end.
M.I.A. said that she recorded her vocals without paying much attention to her singing and finished the song in one take. [12] She drew inspiration for the lyrics from her own troubles gaining a work permit to the US, complaining that the issue was probably "them thinking that I might to [sic] fly a plane into the Trade Center". [12]
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Hey! Ma-til-da; Ma-til-da; Ma-til-da, she take me money and run a-Venezuela. Belafonte often performed the song in concert, and he would encourage the audience to sing that line. An example is heard on his 1959 live album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, where the total playing time for "Matilda" is nearly 12 minutes. [4]
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