Stay (Maurice Williams song)

1960

Stay ( Just a Little Bit Longer ) is a doo-wop song, which was composed by the American pianist and songwriter Maurice Williams, first recorded by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs and 1960 as a single on Herald Records ( Herald 552) was published.

General

The song wrote Maurice Williams in 1953 allegedly at the age of 15 years when he at a date a girl had wanted to persuade her to stay longer than their parents granted their output. Since they did not stop, he had written the song whose text had accrued to him literally.

1960 Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs took a demo tape of the song, but it aroused no attention at the local record companies. Only Al Silver's Herald Records in New York showed interest, but insisted on a re-recording, because the technical quality of the demo tape would have been deficient. Following the release of song of CKLW, an influential radio station, was admitted into the program. The single was recorded on October 3, first time in 1960 on the Billboard Top 100 and finished on November 21, 1960 for a week Course 1

Stay with a time of 1 minute and 39 seconds, the shortest song ever stood at the top of the U.S. charts. A new surge in popularity reached the song in 1987 when he was included in the soundtrack of the movie Dirty Dancing dance.

The German television audience has, since the 1990s, in the living room the melody - until today Spots Bitburger brewery are backed it.

Cover versions

From some successful title Stay cover versions appeared, so in 1963 by the Hollies, the recording debuted at number 21 on 7 December 1963 in the UK charts, reaching number 8 there and was able to last ten weeks in the Top 20.

In the U.S., published in 1964 a cover version of the Four Seasons on Vee Jay Records (Vee Jay 592 ) located on February 15, 1964 was able to place on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, there peaked at number 16 and eleven weeks, listed among the top 100.

1978 Jackson Browne wrote a new text to the song in which it comes to appeal to his audience to stay still, so the band can continue playing. The falsetto voice on this recording sang David Lindley, the female part Rosemary Butler. The reviews ( Asylum 45460 ) listed for the first time on 10 June 1978 in the Hot 100, remaining there for 15 weeks, and reached a peak stock market has 20

Cyndi Lauper released the song in 2003 on their album At Last. Georg Danzer wrote a German text for this song, which appeared directly on the album.