Signature
key confidence high · relative B minor · tempo confidence medium · half-time 62.2 · low end 34% · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-12 · how accurate
Character
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Lineage
- Covered[unknown]source
- CoveredAdam Harvey feat. Guy Sebastiansource
- CoveredCactus Jacksource
- CoveredDa Vinci’s Notebooksource
- CoveredDance With a Strangersource
- CoveredFrantic Flintstonessource
- Written byGerry Raffertysource
- CoveredGerry Raffertysource
- Written byJoe Egansource
- CoveredLouisesource
- CoveredPat Green & Cory Morrowsource
- CoveredPomplamoosesource
- CoveredSusanna Hoffssource
- CoveredThe Jeff Healey Bandsource
Why it is here
- The song was famously used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs for the scene in which Mr. Blonde tortures a bound policeman while singing and dancing to it, a use Tarantino says was the choice of nearly every actor who auditioned for the role. source
- The track was produced by legendary songwriting/production duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. source
- It was written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan as a parody of Bob Dylan's vocal style and lyrical persona, depicting a dismissive tale of a music industry cocktail party, so convincingly that listeners have mistakenly credited it to Dylan. source
The full ledger entry: every chart it has been on, where it is live now.