| "Dirty Water" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) Label on the 1965 US single | ||||
| Single by the Standells | ||||
| from the album Dirty Water | ||||
| B-side | "Rari" | |||
| Released | November 1965[1] | |||
| Recorded | March 5, 1965[2] | |||
| Studio | Universal, Hollywood[2] | |||
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| Length | 2:48 | |||
| Label | ||||
| Songwriter(s) | Ed Cobb | |||
| Producer(s) | Ed Cobb | |||
| The Standells singles chronology | ||||
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"Dirty Water" is a song by the American rock band The Standells, written by their producer Ed Cobb.[7] The song is a mock paean to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its then-famously polluted Boston Harbor and Charles River.
- ^ Burgess, Nowlin & Cobb 2007, p. 191.
- ^ a b Irwin, Bob (1994). Dirty Water (Liner notes). The Standells. Sundazed. SC 6019.
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. Song Review by Richie Unterberger at AllMusic. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bradley, Larry (November 4, 2014). "The 1960s: The Standells - "Dirty Water". The Alternative Jukebox. Cassell. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-84403-789-6.
- ^ 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.