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In 1958, Morton Downey Jr. sang the song [19] on national television, on a set that resembled a dark street with one street light. It was covered by No Wave artist James White on his 1983 album Flaming Demonics. Marianne Faithfull covered it in her Hal Willner-produced album Strange Weather in 1987, and later on 20th Century Blues (1996).
On Sesame Street, it was covered by 10 Muppet numbers in a chorus line. The Simpsons parodied the song in the episode "Treehouse of Horror V". Catherine Zeta-Jones performed the song, with modified lyrics, in dedication to her husband Michael Douglas during the 2009 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony.
Streets I Have Walked is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1963. [3] The album contains songs from around the world as well as gospel songs. It reached #30 on the Billboard Albums 200, making it his last studio album to reach the top 40.
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. . Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all
"Code of the Streets" is a song by American hip hop duo Gang Starr from their fourth studio album Hard to Earn (1994). It was released as the third single from the album on May 17, 1994. It samples "Little Green Apples" by Monk Higgins, "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss and "Word From Our Sponsor" by Boogie Down Productions.
Easy Street is in thirty-two bar form [4] [5] and includes a melody that moves the title line to different pitches whenever it recurs in a phrase. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The song is usually played with a slow, slightly swinging melody.
"Streets" debuted at number 126 on the Billboard Global 200 during the week of January 23, 2021. [82] It moved up to number 32 in its second charting week, [83] before ascending to number 16 in its third. [84] "Streets" was Doja Cat's first song to reach the Global 200's top 10, [85] hitting its peak at number 8 during the week of February 13. [86]
The song relates the latest in a mother's series of 2 AM hospital room prayers for her seriously ill and dying seven-year-old daughter. The title refers to the last line in each chorus, as well as the end of the song, wherein she makes the request, "So if you take her with you today, will you make sure she looks both ways, And would you hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven."