Dirty Water

"Dirty Water"
Label on the 1965 US single
Single by The Standells
from the album Dirty Water
B-side"Rari"
ReleasedNovember 1965 (1965-11)
RecordedMarch 5, 1965
StudioUniversal Recorders (Hollywood, CA)
Genre
Length2:48
Label
Songwriter(s)Ed Cobb
Producer(s)Ed Cobb
The Standells singles chronology
"Don't Say Goodbye"
(1965)
"Dirty Water"
(1965)
"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"
(1966)

"Dirty Water" is a song by the American rock band The Standells, written by their producer Ed Cobb.[4] The song is a mock paean to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its then-famously polluted Boston Harbor and Charles River.

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  2. ^ Seward, Scott (2004). "Nuggets". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 918–919. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  3. ^ Danial Levitin (1 March 2014). The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature. Aurum Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-78131-112-7.
  4. ^ Bruce Pollock (18 March 2014). Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-135-46296-3.

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