Producer Jon Landau had met Zevon through Jackson Browne in the mid-’70s, and Landau was, of course, manager to another rising star, one named Bruce Springsteen who was an admitted admirer of Zevon’s. Warren Zevon and Michael Jackson–what a pair! Jeannie Needs a Shooter (from Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School) To this day, this song along with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is one of the most requested and played radio tunes during Halloween. When Martin Scorsese used the song for a crucial scene in his Tom Cruise hit The Color of Money in 1986, it introduced the song and Zevon to a new audience. It took a while for the song to be revered as the classic it now is. Drummer Eddie Ponder began the song with his “bum-bum-bum” intro which blended its way along with that now-classic Zevon piano riff.
The resulting song “Werewolves of London” was written by Zevon, Roy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel.
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From there, Zevon wanted to pay homage to that movie while also creating a song which would fit into the late ’70s disco era.
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Zevon was hanging out with Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers when they caught an old movie from 1930 on TV one night called Werewolf of London. Werewolves of London (From Excitable Boy) Excitable boy indeed! Listen carefully and you’ll hear Jennifer Warnes and Linda Ronstadt “Wha-ooing” along to Jim Horn’s saxophone. After that display, Warren (along with co-writer LeRoy P. He then grabbed a fistful of the roast, hopped up on the counter, ripped open his shirt and proceeded to rub the roast over his chest. Warren, dressed in a white button-up dress shirt, walked into their kitchen one evening where the freshly cooked pot roast lay on the counter. Excitable Boy (From Excitable Boy)Īccording to Crystal Zevon in her book I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, this song came about over the course of two evenings where a pot roast (Warren’s favourite dish) was served in the Zevon kitchen. Maybe the lyric “I’m all strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town,” just sounded nicer sung by her. “Carmelita” wasn’t a huge hit for Zevon but did become a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1977. It’s the perfect song to pair with Bob Dylan’s “Romance In Durango ” which was released the same year. Not to mention this song, “Carmelita”, written by Zevon features Eagles member Glenn Frey on guitar. His 1976 release, Warren Zevon was a bit more refined and even featured some heavy-hitting backup from Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham who appear on the album. Except for one song, “She Quit Me” which wound up on the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, Wanted made very little splash though it did feature a classic Zevon tune, “A Bullet For Ramona” which set the tone for the rest of his career. His first, Wanted Dead or Alive was released in 1969 but did very little in kick-starting the songwriter’s career. With that, these are ten of my favorite Zevon songs Carmelita (from Warren Zevon)ġ976’s Warren Zevon is not, in fact, Warren Zevon’s first album. Zevon’s life and career was tragically cut short in 2003 just as mainstream acceptance and respect had finally found its way to him. David Letterman was a rabid fan, and Zevon even once remarked that the talk show host was the “best friend” has music ever had. Mainstream success eluded him throughout most of his career, but his dark lyrics about the undesirables in his imagination earned him acclaim and admiration from many of history’s top songwriters including Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
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Zevon was a genius lyricist whose biggest hit in the ’70s concerned a disturbed young man who performed a series of unspeakable acts on women.
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The term “bad boy of rock” has been lauded on everyone from Mick Jagger to Billy Idol to Gene Simmons but only one bad boy of rock may have actually lived the life: Warren Zevon.
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