RED HOT AND BLUE LOVE
(words and music by Rick Springfield)
When we talk it's a thriller, baby
It's like walking on a tightrope line
When we spark it's electric, baby
Like the crackle from a neon sign
What you doin', baby, come on over tonight
(yeah, yeah, yeah)
We'll have the joint jumpin'
We'll be doin', doin', doin, alright
Red Hot & Blue Love (hot
& blue love)
Red Hot & Blue Love (hot
& blue love)
Whatever you're thinking of
You can do it, do it, do it
Well, Red Hot & Blue Love
(hot & blue love)
Well, I've got it all planned on the other hand
If you like it like that
When we touch, there's a shock baby
Like the static from a pylon
When we love I'm on a rocket baby
Running up and down your nylon
What you doin', baby, come on over tonight
(well, well, well)
We'll have the joint jumpin'
We'll be doin', doin', doin, alright
(that's right, that's right)
Red Hot & Blue Love (hot
& blue love)
Red Hot & Blue Love (hot
& blue love)
Whatever you're thinking of
You can do it, do it, do it
Red Hot & Blue Love (hot
& blue love)
Well I take it when I want it
I don't really want it now
I'm talking about Red Hot,
I'm talking about Red Hot
Red Hot & Blue Love
Red Hot & Blue Love
Whatever you're thinking of
You can do it, do it, do it
Red Hot & Blue Love
Well you know that I take it when I want it
And I want it tonight, tonight
(total playing time: 2:56)
SONG FACTS:
Rick performed this song during the Live
and Kickin' special.
He also performed a part of this song at his show in Agoura Hills, CA on
4/21/02, In Kettering, OH on 5/31/02 and at Navy Pier on 6/1/02.
It appears on the following releases:
Working Class Dog and Legendary
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This is also one of my favorite songs
on WCD. I really love the words and the way Rick sings them.
The way Rick uses his voice in this song can send shivers down a girl's spine! Well, at
least this girl's spine. I would love to experience this one live....I can just
picture Rick singing it, his facial expressions, movements. I really do like this song. :)
This never was one of my favorite
songs, originally, but listening to the words and doing some visualization, kind of gives
it a new flare. There's one point in the song where Rick kind of moans, oye!
I've never been a big jazz fan and this song has a jazzy feel to it. Wouldn't mind
him doing this live if he would really get into it.
I LOVE THIS ONE!!
This is probably my favorite on the album believe it or not! Lyrically it is
probably not the strongest tune on the record, but I love the sound and all
the changes the song takes. This would be a great live song.
As a side note, I do actually have him performing this one on some
show(can't remember off hand which) and at the end he really works the
camera with his eyes in a really, um, suggestive way. Good GOD!
It is yummy to see. :o) [the show would be Live and Kickin, more than
likely]
Red Hot & Blue Love is one of my all time favorite Rick songs. And also one of his most suggestive songs ever. It has a very "bad boy" tone to it. Especially in the lines, "well I take it when I want it, I don't really want it now." What a tease! And of course the line where he says, "running up and down your nylon," really brings images to mind. (along with that little groan he does! Yow!) I can tell you that as a young girl, this song tore me up. And as a woman of 37, it still does! I love the music in it, the way it changes so much. It's just such a groovy little number. "What you doin' baby come on over tonight,"---if that's not seduction, I don't know what is. I recently ordered the "Live & Kickin'" DVD from '82, and he performs this one about middle way into the show. WOW...if you haven't seen it, you must! It's incredible live. I wonder if he still does it live? Just a great song all the way around. Simple but fun!
I LOVE this song...have loved it since the day I first heard it and I still bounce around and do that shoulder shaky thing when I hear it. You know - that thing we do when no one is watching and we're pretending to seduce the dashboard of our car - LOL!
Anyway...the words had me so stumped as a kid - I was hearing "static from a pile of laundry", I thought something was "running up and down the northern lights" (and worried that would make for an expensive light bill) ...I was perplexed - not an uncommon thing with me :-) But as I slowly put 2 and 2 together, I stared realizing that this is the ultimate in Rick naughty songs. Where Inside Sylvia is WCD's sweet, romantic, Barry White ballad, RH&BL is Prince's Darlin' NIcki :-)
Rick HAD to know how this would affect the women when he recorded it - the things he did with his voice, the words he chose...quite steamy (fan, fan, fan.) But as I was just a kid when I fell so in love with it, I know I was not picking up even half of the meaning. So what DID I like about it then? I liked the music - I like that bluesy feel - I LOVE that guitar - and I love Rick's voice.
So, while I still confess to wanting to roll around in laundry and kiss Rick and do the things I saw he and Tiffany doing on GH (and also wanting to LOOK like Tiffany rather than a chubby, flat chested 10-year-old boy with limp hair and Garanimals) I was at least 20 before I worked out all the words and understood that we were not just talking about kissing here! So, I claim some higher, more respectful, ground than just liking this for the Prince-make-out-factor would give me - LOL! I liked it for the music - SNORT!! How's that for slyly admitting it ain't just about the music anymore P-) while maintaining a holier than thou mind set so I don't appear to be a delusional pervert...LOL
My ONLY criticism of the whole song is that instrumental bit in the bridge...every time I hear it I just want to scream - "HEY!! We're busy here, someone tell Dick Clark and his American Bandstand dancers to come back later." :-)
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