Tube Snake Boogie

"Tube Snake Boogie"
Single by ZZ Top
from the album El Loco
B-side "La Grange"
Released 1981
Format 7"
Recorded 1981
Genre Hard rock, blues rock, surf rock
Length 3:02
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
Producer(s) Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"Pearl Necklace"
(1981)
"Tube Snake Boogie"
(1981)
"Gimme All Your Lovin'"
(1983)

"Tube Snake Boogie" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top from their 1981 album El Loco. It was released as a single the same year and reached #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.[1]

In the liner notes for the band's 1992 Greatest Hits album, it is explained that "'tube snake' is gnarly lingo for a surfboard. Either way, it's good clean fun."

The song was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.

Cover versions

Charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles 103
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 4

Personnel

References

  1. "Rock Music: Top Mainstream Rock Songs Chart | Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
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