Keep Your Hands to Yourself
"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" | ||||
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Single by the Georgia Satellites | ||||
from the album Georgia Satellites | ||||
B-side | "Can't Stand the Pain" | |||
Released | November 1986[1] | |||
Genre | Southern rock | |||
Length | 3:26 | |||
Label | Elektra | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dan Baird | |||
Producer(s) | Jeff Glixman | |||
The Georgia Satellites singles chronology | ||||
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Video | ||||
"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" on YouTube |
"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" is the debut single by American
Content
The song is a
The lyrics tell the story of a woman who refuses to become more intimate with her boyfriend until he marries her. Baird said the song "basically wrote itself" on a bus ride home from his construction job.[3]
Critical reception
Music video
The video for the single begins with the band riding on a flatbed cruising down a highway, along with flashbacks of Dan Baird and his fiancee preparing for their wedding. These scenes continue, until just before the last verse, where they arrive at the wedding, and are greeted by the guests. The band continue to play on the now-parked flatbed. During the instrumental outro, Baird is stripped of his guitar, and carried by two men over to the bride as the wedding cake comes out and is placed on the table. As Baird (now dressed in a tuxedo) kisses his new bride (after being forced by her shotgun-carrying father), it is finally revealed that the bride is quite heavily pregnant. In an overhead shot, the same flatbed, now with tin cans tied to it and "just married" painted on the bed of it, is seen cruising down the highway.
Chart performance
Chart (1986–1987) | Position |
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Australian (Kent Music Report)[6] | 20 |
US Billboard Hot 100[7] | 2 |
US Billboard Album Rock Tracks[8] | 2 |
Year-end chart (1987) | Position |
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US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[9] | 35 |
References
- ^ "Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself".
- ^ "'Keep Your Hands to Yourself' sheet music". MusicNotes.com. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ Hudak, Joseph (March 7, 2016). "How Georgia Satellites' 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself' Changed Country Music". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Georgia Satellites biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ISBN 9780806525167.
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "The Georgia Satellites Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "Georgia Satellites chart history". Allmusic. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ "1987 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 99, no. 52. December 26, 1987.