Ellen Foley - Should I Stay or Should I Go | The Story Behind The Song

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2021
  • Ellen Foley tells a peculiar fact about 'Should I stay or should I go'. The song is written and sung by Mick Jones, the guitarist of The Clash and Ellen's partner at the time. An interview from 2019.

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  • @wayne_twentyfive
    @wayne_twentyfive Рік тому +6

    Ellen Foley is just brilliant ! .. Love her spectacularly good vocals on the wonderful "Night Out" album .. And the follow up "Spirit of St.Louis, is also one of my favourite albums, although it's hugely under-rated .. She is also great to listen to in interviews .. Very charismatic woman .. Thanks for the upload !

  • @morton.1467
    @morton.1467 2 роки тому +33

    Ms Foley. The absolutely brilliant female voice of Bat Out Of Hell.

    • @walnutsandbeastiality866
      @walnutsandbeastiality866 2 роки тому

      ,,When he saw them, he took off like a *bat on a hill."*
      (Christopher Moltisanti describing Vito’s disappearance, The Sopranos, 1999)

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 2 роки тому +1

      Also the original singer of "Its all coming back to me", as part of the group Pandoras Box, a group Jim Steinman formed (who was also behind the majority of Meatloaf's songs)

    • @leahflower9924
      @leahflower9924 8 місяців тому

      ​@@juliusnepos6013meatloaf always made me laugh especially with that I would do anything for love but I won't do that song

  • @johncarr3855
    @johncarr3855 Рік тому +3

    More people should have listened to Ellen Foley amazing first album.

  • @danillobet1162
    @danillobet1162 2 роки тому +6

    Brilliant!!! I loved it. The Clash (Mick Jones and Ellen Foley what a hell of a song Hitsville U.K.

  • @rocknroller77
    @rocknroller77 2 роки тому +4

    Loved her on Night Court

  • @mickeasingwood7451
    @mickeasingwood7451 Рік тому +3

    She also sings backing vocals on Carjamming ,a track from the biggest selling Clash album Combat Rock.Which just happens to contain Should I Stay....Her royalties will be for Carjamming.If people were paid for being the subject matter for songs ,we'd all be owed for every song that mentioned "everyone" and "everybody" !

  • @magiccarpet1850
    @magiccarpet1850 2 роки тому +5

    Great story !

  • @debbiecooper1677
    @debbiecooper1677 2 роки тому +13

    I just love these videos even if I dont know who they are there still fun to watch

    • @coz7891
      @coz7891 2 роки тому +1

      She's the duet voice with Meatloaf in the song, "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights"

    • @housekeeping3561
      @housekeeping3561 2 роки тому +2

      Hey Debbie, I knew her in high school. All girls Catholic schools. She was best friends with one of my best friends. She was a rockstar from the get go!

    • @debbiecooper1677
      @debbiecooper1677 2 роки тому

      @@housekeeping3561 Wow that is so nice. did you see each other later on in life.

    • @housekeeping3561
      @housekeeping3561 2 роки тому +1

      @@debbiecooper1677 Not really but my friend does. So that’s fun.

    • @Hy-Brasil
      @Hy-Brasil 2 роки тому

      but... these videos literally tell you who they are.....

  • @schnazzybo
    @schnazzybo 6 місяців тому +1

    Ellen Foley was great in Night Court too

  • @user-pz6ge7hf4x
    @user-pz6ge7hf4x 3 місяці тому

    Gotta love Ellen..straight shooter and extremely talented artist..

  • @vincentkosik403
    @vincentkosik403 Рік тому

    Nice to here of the friendship of hers with M Jones...she's a nice person...I bet it was a bout her

  • @mamakind99
    @mamakind99 2 роки тому +6

    Wow, if that is true, Pattie Boyd must be rolling in the green...

  • @kleineLaume
    @kleineLaume 2 роки тому +1

    thanks! *♡

  • @robertiaccarino4363
    @robertiaccarino4363 5 місяців тому

  • @Semprini537
    @Semprini537 3 місяці тому

    HITSVILLE UK, great,great marimba punk. Mick has an ear for an earworm. He was the melodic one, Joe was different. Anyway, love them all four + passengers

  • @tedkay_music
    @tedkay_music 2 роки тому +1

    cool!

  • @chip9177
    @chip9177 13 днів тому

    She is pretty cool

  • @Bodyknowledge77
    @Bodyknowledge77 2 роки тому +5

    Sweet anecdote! :-0 Money for something of nothing. I wonder if they tracked down the worker(s) that inspired "Money For Nothing"?

    • @andlinux
      @andlinux 2 роки тому

      indeed, do they also get paid ? 😉

  • @TheBergmark
    @TheBergmark 10 днів тому

    Hitsville UK is from 1980, not 1981.

  • @scottca9780
    @scottca9780 2 роки тому +28

    I'll be spending the rest of the day editing Wikipedia pages to say I'm the Wichita Lineman, Elanor Rigby, and all the characters in Walk on the Wild Side.

    • @derin111
      @derin111 2 роки тому +3

      They guessed when you spelt your name incorrectly….Eleanor. 😉🙂👍🏽

    • @supachaloopa3611
      @supachaloopa3611 2 роки тому

      @@derin111 *spelled*

    • @derin111
      @derin111 2 роки тому +3

      @@supachaloopa3611 next time look in a dictionary before you criticise or correct! I am English. 'Spelt' is the correct spelling of the past tense form of the verb to "spell".
      As this refers to something done in the past i.e. the naming of this song and the spelling of the name contained therein and what Scott had done in spelling the name is also an action completed in the past, it is by definition in the past tense.
      "Spelled" is the form more commonly used in American English...which as far as I'm concerned isn't even English, as defined by the fact that it requires the qualifying prefix "American".
      How do you like that?

    • @supachaloopa3611
      @supachaloopa3611 2 роки тому

      @@derin111 Your "concern" and my "correction" are in conflict with each other. You are all "worked up into a frenzy", and I am "happy and content". That also demonstrates polar differences.

    • @derin111
      @derin111 2 роки тому +1

      @@supachaloopa3611 What?
      You've got egg all over face and you remain content? HAHAHA!
      Anyway, I would have hoped that with the embarrassing demonstration of your ignorance you would be suitably chasened and your arrogance diminished. Evidently not! Haha!

  • @moow950
    @moow950 2 роки тому +2

    Ellen Foley was brilliant with Meat Loaf!!!!

  • @erikkarsies4851
    @erikkarsies4851 2 роки тому +2

    Will 'Baby' from 'What's the matter baby' get royality's too ?

  • @AladdinAudible
    @AladdinAudible 2 роки тому +4

    Did Jones take some musical inspiration from these songs? Or maybe just rock 'n roll doppelgangers
    The Royal Jokers - Beatnik (1959)
    ua-cam.com/video/07uvUlKYin8/v-deo.html
    Paulito Ortega - Calor (1965)
    ua-cam.com/video/c9f6i1wvGUQ/v-deo.html

    • @T8754
      @T8754 2 роки тому +1

      It's generally believed that the Clash "borrowed" it from The Righteous Brothers "Little Latin Lupe Lu" released December 1962:
      ua-cam.com/video/TuzgO_8DJA8/v-deo.html

  • @JohnHoulgate
    @JohnHoulgate 27 днів тому

    Pretty girls can't look away!

  • @janmartens7954
    @janmartens7954 2 роки тому +2

    What a wonder full woman……… we need people like her, the muze of men

  • @leahflower9924
    @leahflower9924 8 місяців тому

    I love the hitsville uk song I thought it was cute I thought she was British because sang that song and dated Mick Jones

  • @Autumn_Forest_
    @Autumn_Forest_ 2 роки тому +3

    My last name is Foley, and I look like the pics of her when she was younger. I wonder if we’re related.

    • @walnutsandbeastiality866
      @walnutsandbeastiality866 2 роки тому

      Foley: _,,Yeah, I was wondering how much something like this went for."_
      Serge _,,One hundred and thirty thousand dollar."_
      Foley _,,Get the _*_****_*_ outta here!"_
      Serge _,,No! No, I cannot. It's serious, because it's very important piece."_
      Foley: _,,Have you ever sold one of these?"_
      Serge: _,,Sell it yesterday to a collector."_
      Foley: _,,Get the _*_****_*_ outta here!"_
      Serge: _,,No, I'm serious! I sell it myself."_
      Summers: _,,Axel _*_Foley,_*_ what on earth are you doing here?"_
      (Beverly Hills Cop, 1984)

    • @mariodriessen9740
      @mariodriessen9740 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe you’re related to the late Blaze Foley?

    • @moow950
      @moow950 2 роки тому

      Maybe you are her lost kid 😏?

    • @supachaloopa3611
      @supachaloopa3611 2 роки тому +2

      Have you ever lived in a van by the river?.......

    • @Autumn_Forest_
      @Autumn_Forest_ 2 роки тому +1

      @@supachaloopa3611 No, but I actually want to, which is super funny lol. I also joke about getting a pet and naming it Matt because all the vets in the US now seem to use the owner’s last name for the pet’s last name on paperwork and medication containers (e.g. Fluffy Johnson, Spot Jones). 😂😂😂

  • @loublackvideo
    @loublackvideo 2 роки тому +2

    Now that is a funny story

  • @BIZARBIES
    @BIZARBIES 2 роки тому

    Night Court

  • @cejannuzi
    @cejannuzi 5 місяців тому

    They should have made her at least part-time singer for them. None of them could sing worth a damn. They couldn't even vocalize the way Lydon did for the Sex Pistols--a real rock star voice. It was always a big weakness of the Clash, that lack of vocals.

  • @tr7k39
    @tr7k39 Рік тому +2

    Joe Strummer wrote the song as he did with most Clash songs and mick wrote the music
    .

    • @jeffphillips1389
      @jeffphillips1389 4 місяці тому

      I don’t believe that is true -most songs were Strummer-Jones just like the Beatles, BUT whoever sang the song wrote music and lyrics ..

    • @maddie8415
      @maddie8415 Місяць тому

      It's well known that Mick wrote these lyrics...I think at one point Joe even wrote a spoof version kind of making fun of him 😂

  • @cggg5089
    @cggg5089 Рік тому +1

    Is this the woman that Meatloaf didn’t want to marry?