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"3AM" (stylized as "3 am" on the album and "3 AM" on the single) is the third single and the third track from American rock band Matchbox 20's debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You (1996). Written by Rob Thomas , Jay Stanley, John Leslie Goff, and Brian Yale , the song was inspired by Thomas dealing with his mother's cancer as a teenager.
Yourself or Someone Like You is the debut album by American rock band Matchbox 20. It was released on October 1, 1996, [ 8 ] by Lava Records and Atlantic Records . The album has been certified 12× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America .
Matchbox Twenty (stylized as Matchbox 20) is an American rock band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995. The group currently consists of Rob Thomas (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Brian Yale (bass guitar), Paul Doucette (drums, rhythm guitar, backing vocals), and Kyle Cook (lead guitar, vocals).
As the album's songs started coalescing, Thomas realized that they were on the sunny side, with nods to the '80s throughout, like Peter Gabriel, T’Pau, Go West and Level 42.
The video album Show: A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty was released in May 2004, topping the Billboard Top Video Albums chart. [5] [9] Following a hiatus to allow lead singer Rob Thomas to focus on his solo career, Matchbox Twenty reunited to record six new songs for a compilation album. [10]
Thomas wrote every song on Matchbox 20's debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You. [14] It was released in October 1996, [12] on the same day that Lava Records folded. [15] The album sold only 600 copies in its first week. [14] The band toured extensively, trying to attract notice. Radio stations were slow to adopt their first single, "Long ...
The song was published and copyrighted in 1957 in the US with words and music by Carl Lee Perkins by Knox Music/Hill and Range Songs of New York. The "Matchbox" recording session is historically significant as a milestone in rock and roll history because later that day, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Lewis were all in the Sun Studio with Sam ...
Matchbox Twenty. Rob Thomas – lead vocals, piano, rhythm guitar; Kyle Cook – lead guitar, backing vocals; Adam Gaynor – rhythm guitar, backing vocals; Brian Yale – bass guitar; Paul Doucette – drums, acoustic guitar on "Stop" Additional musicians. Angie Aparo – background vocals on "Stop" Peter Stuart – background vocals on "The Burn"