Stay (Maurice Williams song)
1960 song by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
"Stay" is a 1960 song by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs and topped the charts in the United States, number 14 in the United Kingdom and number 4 in New Zealand. It went on covered by The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper.
| "Stay" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs | |
| B-side | "Do You Believe" |
| Written | 1953 |
| Released | August 1960 |
| Recorded | 1960 |
| Genre | Doo-wop |
| Length | 1:36 |
| Label | Herald |
| Songwriter(s) | Maurice Williams |
| Producer(s) | Phil Gernhard |
Jackson Browne version
change| "Stay" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Jackson Browne | ||||
| from the album Running on Empty | ||||
| B-side | "Rosie" | |||
| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||
| Venue | Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland | |||
| Genre | Soft rock[1] | |||
| Length | 3:28 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Maurice Williams | |||
| Producer(s) | Jackson Browne | |||
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The Jackson Browne released a version for his fifth studio album Running on Empty. The song is a follow-up track to The Load-Out. It made number 20 in the United States, number 10 in New Zealand, number 12 in the United Kingdom, number 58 in Australia and number 19 in Canada.
References
change- ↑ "Soft Rock Music Songs". AllMusic.
