Producer: Jimmy Iovine Tom Petty

Heartbreaker's beach party yeah!
Heartbreaker's beach party yeah!

Well we're gonna have a cookout
We're gonna wear mumus
We'll have potato salad
A lot of wieners too

Heartbreakers' beach party yeah!
Heartbreakers' beach party yeah!

Well we're gonna do the dogs

We're gonna do the swim
We'll wear mosquito repellant
Play on the jungle gym

Heartbreaker's beach party yeah!
Heartbreaker's beach party yeah!

Alright jones, let's dig some clams

Boy I'm tired, let's go have potato salad

...okay, another modern classic

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – an L.A.-based gang of sharp-dressed garage-rock refugees from Gainsville, Florida – released their debut LP in November 1976, featuring two tracks which are now part of their long list of hits, “Breakdown” and “American Girl.”

Since that first LP in ‘76, the band’s style has epitomized and largely defined the American “heartland rock” movement – a vintage-guitar twang, hard lyric truth, and searing vocal attitude.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been nominated for 17 Grammy awards and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all-time.

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