who wrote the song oh lord won't you buy me a mercedes benz
Janis Joplin Bob Neuwirth Michael McClure
title: Mercedes Benz (song) text: be a rejection of consumerism. The song's lyrics were written at Vahsen's, a Port Chester, New York bar, on August 8, 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter Bob Neuwirth. The lyrics were inspired by the first line of a song written by San Francisco beat poet Michael McClure, "Come on, God, and buy me a Mercedes Benz." Joplin heard it sung by a friend of McClure's, and she began to sing it, too. At the Port Chester bar, Joplin sang the line a few times and began riffing on the McClure lyrics, while Neuwirth copied the title: Mercedes Benz (song) text: Mercedes Benz (song) "Mercedes Benz" is an "a cappella" song written by singer Janis Joplin with the poets Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth, and originally recorded by Joplin. In the song, the singer asks the Lord to prove His love for her by buying her a Mercedes-Benz, a color TV, and a "night on the town." There is also a reference to "Dialing for Dollars", a franchised format local television program, which required one to be watching the show to win when the show called your phone number, hence the singer's need for a TV. The song is considered to title: Mercedes Benz (song) text: The remixed version was included on collections of Joplin's greatest hits. Notes Mercedes Benz (song) "Mercedes Benz" is an "a cappella" song written by singer Janis Joplin with the poets Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth, and originally recorded by Joplin. In the song, the singer asks the Lord to prove His love for her by buying her a Mercedes-Benz, a color TV, and a "night on the town." There is also a reference to "Dialing for Dollars", a franchised format local television program, which required one to be watching the show to win when the show called your phone number, title: Sven-David Sandström text: and premiered by the Oregon Bach Festival in 2009 and also performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival that year, and works by Purcell. His work draws on ideas from modernist music, minimalist music, jazz, and popular music. Indeed, in Act II of "Jeppe", the chorus sings the line "O Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz" in harmony based on the original Janis Joplin melody. He has recently become interested in Tejano music and has been working with incorporating that idiom into his work much as composers of Romantic music collected folk music and incorporated it into their works. He title: Mercedes Benz (song) text: new lyrics onto bar napkins, which he kept for years. She sang the new version for the first time that night at her concert at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester. The song was recorded in one take on October 1, 1970. These were the last tracks Joplin ever recorded; she died three days later, on October 4. The song appeared on the album "Pearl", released in 1971. The song title, as listed on that album, contains no hyphen although the actual automobile brand name is hyphenated. In 2003, Joplin's recording was remixed, adding a beat and a background melody.