Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex song)

This article is about the Rednex song. For the traditional country folk song, see Cotton-Eyed Joe.

"Cotton Eye Joe"
Single by Rednex
from the album Sex & Violins
Released12 August 1994
Genre
Length3:14
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Janne Ericsson
  • Örjan Öban Öberg
  • Pat Reiniz
Producer(s)Pat Reiniz
Rednex singles chronology
"Cotton Eye Joe"
(1994) 		"Old Pop in an Oak"
(1995)
"The Chase"
(2001)
"Cotton Eye Joe 2002"
(2002)
"Mama Take Me Home"
(2006)
Music video
"Cotton Eye Joe" on YouTube

"Cotton Eye Joe" is a song by Swedish Eurodance group Rednex, released in August 1994 by Jive and Zomba as the first single from their debut studio album, Sex & Violins (1995). Based on the traditional American folk song "Cotton-Eyed Joe", it combines the group's style with traditional American instruments such as banjos[5] and fiddles. The song was written by Janne Ericsson, Örjan Öban Öberg and Pat Reiniz, and produced by Reiniz. The vocal verses are performed by Annika Ljungberg, while the "Cotton Eye Joe" chorus is sung by Göran Danielsson, who never appears in the music video for the song, directed by Stefan Berg. It was a number one hit in at least eleven countries, and reached numbers 25 and 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100. In 2002, "Cotton Eye Joe" was remixed in a new dance version, and was released on Rednex's first greatest hits album, The Best of the West (2002).

  1. ^ Loftus, Johnny. "Rednex – Sex & Violins". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b The A.V. Club (2009). Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-9473-4. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  3. ^ Flick, Larry; Pride, Dominic (18 February 1995). "Will U.S. Fans Dance To Jive's Rednex Fiddling ?". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. p. 117. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. ^ Ewing, Tom (7 May 2013). "Rednex - "Cotton Eyed Joe"". Freaky Trigger. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Cotton Eye Joe – Rednex". tralala.gr. Archived from the original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2014.