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John Mellencamp – Pink Houses (4:45)

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“Pink Houses” is a song written and sung by John Cougar Mellencamp. It was released on the 1983 album Uh-Huh on Riva Records. It reached #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984. “Pink Houses” was ranked #439 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Recorded in a farmhouse in Brownstown, Indiana, the song was inspired when Mellencamp was driving along an overpass on the way home to Bloomington, Indiana from the Indianapolis airport. There was an old black man sitting outside his little pink shotgun house with his cat in his arms, completely unperturbed by the traffic speeding along the highway in his front yard. “He waved, and I waved back,” Mellencamp said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “That’s how ‘Pink Houses’ started.”
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  • eyaj

    ..take off those Bobbi Brooks....

    19 days ago

  • lstejskal

    ain't that America

    last month

  • supermediadave

    And as a man from South Africa told me today, you don't know how good you got it in "America".

    March 2012

  • TheDarkSide73

    He's got greazy hair and a greazy smile.. :-))

    February 2012

  • nitehawk868

    Who here remembers the Pink House promotion MTv had when this song came out......I wonder who won...and if its still pink?????

    February 2012

  • ohh1972

    Such a hymn. Seems rather removed now.

    February 2012

  • wildtony40

    great cd.

    January 2012

  • oldiesfanjohn

    Play ball

    January 2012

  • kemp678

    ....Home of the free, yeah!

    December 2011

  • r-iman

    Aint that America.....................

    December 2011

  • brooking1404

    Great to see John in London in July . Aint that America !!

    December 2011

  • lottadogs

    I like it

    November 2011

  • jwileya

    know every word..good song!

    October 2011

  • Oldvets2

    i 2 live in a small town but aint that america

    September 2011

  • rockmetalrules

    timeless

    September 2011

  • RustyChile

    Fur yew an' mee Bybeeee!

    August 2011

  • AneezMom

    Classic!

    July 2011

  • cadaver11

    <333

    July 2011

  • JOEDOG1369

    JOHN COUGER

    May 2011

  • rdl82

    he thinks he's got it so good.

    May 2011
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