stomping ground
DION [DIMUCCI]
Birth Name: Dion Frances DiMucci
Born: July 18, 1939
Genres: Pop, Rock, R&B
Member of: Dion & The Belmonts, Dion & The Timberlanes, Dion & The Wanderers, The Streetheart Band
basic information
| release date | 2021 Nov, 19 [CD]; 2022 Feb, 11 [LP] |
| country of manufacture | [U.S.] |
| label | KTBA Records |
| catalog no. | KTBA92282 [CD], KTBA92281 [LP] |
| format | CD, 2 LP |
| note of registration | P & © 2021 Keeping the Blues alive Records |
| recording | [by Guy Fletcher at British Groove, London, for MK guitar] |
| mixing | by Wayne Hood |
| mastering | by Adam Ayan at Gateway Studios - Portland, ME |
| production | Wayne Hood & Dion DiMucci |
| credits | ... |
musicians
| Dion DiMucci | vocals, guitar ? |
| Mark Knopfler | [electric guitar] |
| Wayne Hood | guitar ?, bass, wurlitzer electric piano, hammond organ ?, drums |
tracks [CD]
| 3 | dancing girl [4:12] |
lyrics
3
dancing girl
(Dion Dimucci & Mike Aquilina)
The room was dark, but I could see her there
Her face was lost inside her flowing hair
She was my dancing girl
She was a dancing girl
She danced alone
She was a dancing girl
She took the music with her sweet sashay
The only smile inside a sad café was all that I can see
She was a mystery
Oh, she danced alone
She was a dancing girl
She moved so easy and so unafraid
And every song that they played was like a serenade
Her serenade, her escapade
Oh, I drank courage and I watched the sway
I chose a tune to make the jukebox play
It had to be just right, it had to last the night
Yeah, she danced alone
She was a dancing girl
And if I knew it, I could call her name
We’d light the night up like a silver flame
I had to make her see, she belonged to me
I took her hand then she took me on
The conga rhythm then we danced till dawn
Me and my dancing girl
She was my dancing girl
All through the night, she was my dancing girl
(Bronx Soul Music INC. (ASCAP)
notes
taken from the booklet:
Mark Knopfler, I knew, is the one guitarist on earth who could appreciate my "dancing girl". When I write a song, I hear the guitar that should be at its heart. When I wrote this one, I heard thast beauitiful, flowing, sublime, melodie play that my wife and I love about Dire Straits. Mark is also a producer's producer and came back at me with strong ideas about the form and structure of the song. I was happy to follow the lead of a genius like him.
revised
06.12.2021