(image: The Hooters - "Nervous Night")The Hooters were formed in 1980 and played their first show on July 4 of that year. They took their name from a nickname for the melodica, a type of keyboard harmonica which is German in origin and made by Hohner. Two of the members, Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, originally played in a band in the late 1970s called Baby Grand and released two albums on Arista Records. "All You Zombies" was first to be found on the album " Amore", and then released in another version on "Nervous Night". Bazilian and Hyman said this about the song:..Bazilian: "This is spooky. When we first wrote the song, the first lyric that came out of someone's mouth, I think it was Rob's, was 'All you people hide your faces, all you people in the street.' We wrote a song based around that, and the next day we came in and Rob and I decided it needed a better word than 'People.' The word that came out of Rob's mouth was 'Zombies.' There was something familiar about it to me. I thought about it, and it wasn't for another year or 2 that I realized that was the title of a Robert Heilman story which I had read in 7th grade. It was a really bizarre story. Rob had never read a science fiction book in his life. It took me years to find a copy of the book because it was out of print. By the way, it had nothing to do with the song".Hyman: "We launched into this kind of biblical world with Moses and Noah and all of the imagery which was the obvious, basic stuff that you read and hear about, whether it's in The Bible or in movies, and just combining those kind of icons and images with this Reggae beat, which is something I was always very much into." Hyman and Bazilian liked this song, but thought is was way too quirky to be a hit. They considered it a throwaway song, and played it in clubs early in their sets when most people weren't paying attention. They didn't realize people liked the song until they did a live concert for radio station WMMR in Philadelphia. When they played this, the phones lit up and the station got flooded with requests for it. They released a vinyl 45 of the WMMR performance to satisfy the demand...Holy Moses met the PharaohYeah, he tried to set him straightLooked him in the eye"Let my people go"-Holy Moses on the mountainHigh above the golden calfWent to get the Ten CommandmentsYeah, he's just gonna break them in half!-{Chorus}All you zombies hide your facesAll you people in the streetAll you sittin' in high placesThe pieces gonna fall on you-No one ever spoke to NoahThey all laughed at him insteadWorking on his arkWorking all by himself-Only Noah saw it comingForty days and forty nightsTook his sons and daughters with himYeah, they were the Israelites-{Chorus}The rain's gonna fall on you-Holy Father, what's the matterWhere have all your children goneSitting in the darkLiving all by themselvesYou don't have to hide any more-All you zombies show your faces......The pieces gonna fall on you-All you zombies show your faces(I know you're out there)All you people in the street(Let's see you)All you sittin' in high placesIt's all gonna fall on you THE HOOTERSLinks:http://www.myspace.com/thehooters http://www.hootersmusic.com/