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All Summer Long" is the title of a song recorded by
Kid RockRobert James Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter with five Grammy Award nominations...
. It was released in 2008 as the third single from his ninth studio album
Rock N Roll JesusRock N Roll Jesus is Kid Rock's sixth album under the Atlantic Records umbrella and his eleventh overall. The album was released October 9, 2007....
. The song is based on
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's "
Werewolves of London"Werewolves of London" is a song composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and performed by Zevon. Included on Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy, it featured accompaniment by bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. The song is memorable for its humorous and...
" and
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's "
Sweet Home Alabama"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.Despite controversy, it reached #8 on the US charts in 1974, and was the band's second hit single....
". The idea for the
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was suggested by
Mike E. ClarkMike E. Clark is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan. Clark has worked with musicians in various genres, including George Clinton and Kid Rock, but is best known for his work with Insane Clown Posse, for which he has produced nine studio albums...
. The song has become a Number One hit in several countries, including UK, and has even crossed over to
country musicCountry music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains...
radio, giving Kid Rock his first Top Ten country hit. The song was the official theme song to WWE's pay-per view event,
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.
About the song
The song is an up-tempo Southern rocker in which Kid Rock reminisces on his teenage romance during the summer of 1989 on Torch Lake, just north of Traverse City in
Northern MichiganNorthern Michigan— or more properly Northern Lower Michigan, , is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan popular as a tourist destination...
, while listening to "Sweet Home Alabama".
Anthony DeCurtis of
Rolling Stone magazine compared its theme to
Bob SegerRobert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the "System" from his recordings, and continued to strive for...
's "
Night Moves"Night Moves" is a song written and performed by heartland rocker Bob Seger, from his 1976 album Night Moves. Released as a single, it charted in late 1976 and eventually reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. In doing so, it almost singlehandedly changed Seger from being a...
". The song samples the instrumental part of
Werewolves of London"Werewolves of London" is a song composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and performed by Zevon. Included on Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy, it featured accompaniment by bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. The song is memorable for its humorous and...
and the most well known riff of "Sweet Home Alabama" alongside new lyrics by Kid Rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd's longtime keyboardist
Billy PowellWilliam Norris "Billy" Powell was an American musician. He was the longtime keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1970 until his death in 2009.-Biography:...
plays the piano on the track, including a reprise of his famous piano solo at the end of "Sweet Home Alabama". Kid Rock would later dedicate his performance at the 2009 Grammy Awards to Billy, shortly after his passing in early 2009.
Critical reception
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rated the song three out of five stars, commenting that the song "incorporates the swampy riffs, the distinctive guitar solo and gospel choirs effortlessly."
Billboard praised the song's style adding that its lyrics "will make listeners nod and smile knowingly as they recall their own glory days."
Rolling Stone named the song as a "story of sexual awakening" adding "It's stirring stuff." This song was number 18 on
Rolling StoneRolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.The magazine was named after the 1948 Muddy Waters song of the same...
's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.
Jim Malec, who writes for the country music review site The 9513, gave the song a "thumbs up" rating. Although he referred to the song as "highly derivative" for its use of sampling, and thought that some of the lyrics were poorly written, he also called it "essentially the perfect summer anthem". Malec's review goes on to call the song a positive change from the mostly "boring" mainstream country music, adding "Here’s an artist who is willing to show some personality."
Music video
The music video for the song was shot in
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,
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and features Kid Rock driving a small boat out on the
Old Hickory LakeOld Hickory Lake is a reservoir in north central Tennessee. It is formed by the Old Hickory Lock and Dam , located on the Cumberland River at mile 216.2 in Sumner and Davidson Counties, approximately upstream from Nashville...
, while two teenagers are shown enacting the song's lyrics. Kid Rock is also shown partying with girls on a different boat, firing a machine gun whilst smoking a Cuban Cigar, and singing the song on a platform on the lake during night time. The platform, float & lights are an homage to the "
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girls" scene in the film
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. As the video ends, the small boat Kid Rock is driving can be seen with the word "cowboy" on the back.
Release history
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Charts
"All Summer Long" is Kid Rock's fourth song to chart on the
Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
, and overall his biggest hit of his career. It reached as high as #23 on the Hot 100, based solely on airplay, since Kid Rock has not made his catalog available for legal digital download (therefore, the song has received no assistance from digital sales on the charts). It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard
Hot 100 AirplayThe Hot 100 Airplay is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot...
charts, making it his highest peaking single on this chart. It is his third top 40 hit on the Hot 100. The song has become Kid Rock's second pop crossover hit (after "
Picture"Picture" is a 2001 song by Kid Rock from his album Cocky, an acoustic country ballad performed with Sheryl Crow, released as a single in 2003...
"), reaching the top ten on Mainstream Top 40 radio. "All Summer Long" has also reached the top ten on
Billboards Adult Top 40.
It marks Kid Rock's third entry on the American Billboard
Hot Country SongsHot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
charts, after "Picture" and "Single Father", both in 2003, and has reached #4 on the country charts, his first top twenty and top ten on that chart. It was a moderate hit on U.S. rock, peaking at #17 on
Mainstream Rock TracksHot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock stations are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981 issue...
, and #38 on
Modern Rock TracksAlternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...
.
The song is Kid Rock's first international hit as well. The song went to #1 in the UK knocking off
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's
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and being replaced by
Katy PerryKatheryn Elizabeth Hudson , better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician...
's controversial song , I Kissed A Girl. In
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, where there are physical and digital releases of the single, it has also topped the charts in The Netherlands,
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,
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...
,
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, and
SwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
. It has reached the top five in
NorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...
,
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
,
TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
and
PolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. In
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the song is his first top ten and number one single.
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| Australian Singles Chart The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
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| Austrian Singles Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart. Airdate is Friday on Hitradio Ö3. It contains the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart...
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| Canadian Radio & Records Country Singles |
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| Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
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| Danish Singles Chart Tracklisten is a Danish top 40 record chart that is presented every Thursday midnight at .The chart combines the 40 best selling tracks from legal music downloads and the sales of music singles on either CD or vinyl...
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| Dutch Singles Chart The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the pirate radio channel Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the pirate radio channel was forced to stop. Joost den Draaijer was the initiator of...
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| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles The European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts in fifteen European countries: Austria, Belgium , Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain,...
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| French Singles Chart The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organisation which protects the interests of the French record industry...
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| German Singles Chart The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband der phonographischen Wirtschaft...
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| New Zealand Singles Chart |
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| Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is the Republic of Ireland music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data...
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| Italian Singles Chart |
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| Norwegian Singles Chart |
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| Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Grammofonleverantörernas förening. Since late 2006 the chart has included legal downloads.-The radio show:1976-2006 the sales chart was...
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| Swiss Singles Chart The Swiss Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:*Singles Top 100...
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| Turkey Top 20 Chart |
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| UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
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| UK Rock Chart The UK Rock Chart usually refers to the Top 40 Rock Singles and the Top 40 Rock Albums Chart compiled by the Official Charts Company from physical record sales in British retail outlets with larger than average genrespecific sales....
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks |
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| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It ranked songs based on airplay on mainstream top 40 radio stations, singles sales, and digital downloads.-History:...
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Hit Masters
A recording of the song was released digitally by "Hit Masters", a
karaokeis a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color and/or...
company whose version was made available in the
iTunes StoreThe iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, it was as of April 2008 the number-one music vendor in the United States. As of January 2009, the store has sold 6 billion songs, accounting for 70% of...
in
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. Due to Kid Rock's decision to withhold his music from the iTunes market, sales from the karaoke version eventually caused it to overtake Kid Rock's original on the
Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
in the United States peaking at number 19. This version also in peaked at number 28 on the
Canadian Hot 100The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
due to digital downloads. As Rock's version remained in the top thirty based on radio airplay alone, Hit Masters jumped into the top twenty due to its sales strength. However, the radio success of "All Summer Long" propelled
Rock N Roll Jesus back up to number two on the
Billboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, nearly a year after its release.
Charts
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Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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19 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It ranked songs based on airplay on mainstream top 40 radio stations, singles sales, and digital downloads.-History:...
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| Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
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| Hot Canadian Digital Singles |
16 |
The Rock Heroes
Another recording of the song by a
karaokeis a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color and/or...
band called "The Rock Heroes" has been released on iTunes for digital downloads in
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. In the U.S. it debuted at number 38 on the
Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
and then rose to number 29 the next week, and also in Canada it debuted at number 16 on the
Canadian Hot 100The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
due to digital downloads in both countries.
Charts
| Chart (2008) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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29 |
| Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
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16 |
| Hot Canadian Digital Singles |
8 |
Chart procession and succession
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