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(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 Pharaoh Yeah, he tried to set him straight Looked him in the eye "Let my people go"

Holy Moses on the mountain High above the golden calf Went to get the Ten Commandments Yeah, he's just gonna break them in half!

{Chorus} All you zombies hide your faces All you people in the street All you sittin' in high places The pieces gonna fall on you

No one ever spoke to Noah They all laughed at him instead Working on his ark Working all by himself

Only Noah saw it coming Forty days and forty nights Took his sons and daughters with him Yeah, they were the Israelites

{Chorus} The rain's gonna fall on you

Holy Father, what's the matter Where have all your children gone Sitting in the dark Living all by themselves You 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 places It's all gonna fall on you

THE HOOTERS

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