Tommy Tutone

Released: January 1, 1981

Songwriter: Tommy Heath Jim Keller

There's a girl in the back seat
Goin' down slowly
Lookin' for the promised land
Do the rollie pollie
Sally's on the see-saw
Johnny's actin' holy
There's a girl in the back seat
Goin' down slowly

Monday mornin' back in school
All week long actin' cool
But though they may be talkin' this
And talkin' talkin' talkin' that
You know there's just one thing on their minds

There's a girl in the back seat
Goin' down slowly
Lookin' for the promised land
Do the rollie pollie
Sally's on the see-saw
Johnny's actin' holy
There's a girl in the back seat
Goin' down slowly

Johnny's pumpin' gasoline
Sally makes the counter sheen
But every Friday night at nine
Lord, it's back seat time

There's a girl in the back seat
(There's a girl in the back seat)
Goin' down slowly
(Goin' goin' down)
Lookin' for the promised land
(Lookin' lookin' for the promised land)
Do the rollie pollie
(Hey yeah)
Sally's on the see-saw
(Sally's waitin' on the see-saw)
Johnny's actin' holy
(Hey yeah)
There's a girl in the back seat
(There's a girl, there's a girl goin' down slowly)
Goin' down slowly

Goin' down slowly
Goin' down slowly
Goin' down slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly

First, let’s be clear that Tommy Tutone is the name of the band, not the frontman. It was originally known as Tommy and the Tu-Tones, the lead singer being Tommy Heath.

This band is most notorious for its song “867-5309/Jenny”, which plagues anyone lucky enough to have that local phone number to this very day.

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