All Summer Long (Kid Rock song)
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| Single by Kid Rock | |||||||||
| from the album Rock n Roll Jesus | |||||||||
| Released | April 5, 2008 | ||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | ||||||||
| Recorded | Allen Roadhouse 2007 | ||||||||
| Length | 4:57 (album version) 3:46 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Atlantic, Top Dog | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Edward King, Leroy Marinell, Robert Ritchie, Gary Rossington, Matthew Shafer, Johnny Van Zant, Robert Wachtel, Warren Zevon | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Kid Rock with Mike E. Clark | ||||||||
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| Single by Hit Masters | |
| Released | August 12, 2008 |
| Format | Digital download |
| Recorded | 2008 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:48 |
| Label | Hip Kiddy Records |
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Edward King Kid Rock Gary Rossington Uncle Kracker Tautkus Johnny Van Zant Robert Wachtel Warren Zevon Leroy Marinell Smitty |
| Producer(s) | Hit Masters |
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| Single by The Rock Heroes | |
| from the album A Salute to Kid Rock | |
| Released | September 2008 |
| Format | Digital download |
| Recorded | 2008 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 4:56 |
| Label | Big Eye |
| Writer(s) |
Edward King Kid Rock Gary Rossington Uncle Kracker Tautkus Ronnie Van Zant Robert Wachtel Warren Zevon Leroy Marinell Smitty |
"All Summer Long" is a song recorded by Kid Rock. It was released in 2008 as the third single from his seventh studio album Rock n Roll Jesus. The song samples two hit songs of the 1970s, Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London", and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama". The idea for the mashup was suggested by Mike E. Clark.
The song was a number-one hit in eight countries across Europe, Australia and the United Kingdom. It even crossed over to southern rock radio, giving Kid Rock his first top-ten country hit. The song was the official theme song to WWE's pay-per view event, Backlash 2008. The song was also the theme song to the 2009 World Cup. It was featured in the video game Power Gig Rise Of The Sixth String. He performed the song at the 2009 Grammys and at Wrestlemania 25, both in medleys. He also promoted the song in Europe performing on Top Of The Pops and World Music Awards. The song led to the TV special VH-1 Storytellers in November 2009. The song opened the door for hip hop in country music. As Lil Wayne joined him at the 2009 CMA Awards.
Throughout the chorus of the song, the lyrics contain repeated references of the narrator and his (implied) girlfriend engaging in underage drinking of whiskey, smoking of unnamed substances (implied to be marijuana), and "making love," all in the northern part of Michigan, Kid Rock's home state, as well as "singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long". Rock's former disc jockey Uncle Kracker shares co-author credit as songwriter. Additionally, before the guitar solo, Kid Rock shouts "turn it up" as an homage to the original Skynyrd song's opening.
The music video for the song was shot in Nashville, Tennessee and features Kid Rock driving a Grand Craft Grand Sport boat out on the Old Hickory Lake, while two teenagers are shown enacting the song's lyrics, taking place in the implied year of 1989 as mentioned in the first verse. Kid Rock is also shown partying with girls or women on a different boat, and singing the song on a platform on the lake during night time. The platform, float & lights are a homage to the "Playboy girls" scene in the film Apocalypse Now. As the video ends, the small boat Kid Rock is driving can be seen with the word "cowboy" on the back.
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