Simply Red

Released: November 8, 2019

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Andy Wright

I'm talking ’bout
Those bad, bad booties
(Bad, bad booties)
My rootie, tootie, tooties

Playing with my mind
Moving my dreams so far outta line

Stomping with my feet
Smiling merrily
As I walk on down the street

In my bad, bad booties
(Bad, bad booties)
My rootie, tootie, tooties
(Rootie, tootie, tooties)

Well come along with me
Tell me, what do you see?
I see smiling faces
Move your lips in time
Get up, get those hips
Swinging to the rhyme

Yes, I'm stomping with my feet
Smiling merrily
As I walk on down the street

In my bad, bad booties
(Bad, bad booties)
My rootie, tootie, tooties
(Rootie, tootie, tooties)

Well come along with me
Tell me, what do you see?
I see smiling faces
Move your lips in time
Get up, get those hips
Swinging to the rhyme

Stomping with my feet
Smiling merrily
As I walk on down the street

With my bad, bad booties
(Bad, bad booties)
My rootie, tootie, tooties
(Rootie, tootie, tooties)
Bad, bad booties
(Bad, bad booties) I'm bad
That’s right
(Rootie, tootie, tooties)
We're bad
(Bad, bad booties)
So bad
(Rootie, tootie, tooties)
I'm bad, haha
(Bad, bad booties)
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
(Rootie, tootie, tooties)
Yeah

Simply Red is a British soul and pop band. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators, whose seven-year run produced limited releases on local labels and ended in 1984 upon critical acclaim for their final single, “Holding Back the Years”.

By early 1985, Mick Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and begun to attract record company attention. The group adopted the name “Red” (after Hucknall’s nickname, denoting his hair colour) but then Mick decided it would sound better with the addition of the word ‘Simply.’

Since the mid 1980s, the band has sold more than 50 million albums.

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