| "Out in the Streets" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by the Shangri-Las | ||||
| from the album Shangri-Las '65 | ||||
| B-side | "The Boy" | |||
| Released | April 1965 | |||
| Length | 2:39 | |||
| Label | Red Bird | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry | |||
| Producer(s) | Shadow Morton | |||
| The Shangri-Las singles chronology | ||||
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Out in the Streets is a song written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry.
It was first recorded by the American girl group the Shangri-Las in 1965 and released as their fifth single. The song was produced by Shadow Morton, arranged by Artie Butler and released on Red Bird Records (RB 10-025) with the Morton composition “The Boy” on the B-Side,[1] It reached # 53 on the US Billboard Top 100.[2]
It was performed on the TV show Shindig! in 1965.[3]
The song was covered by Blondie in 1975;[4] but this cover was not released until 1994, when it was included on The Platinum Collection. Blondie subsequently covered it again in 1999 for their album No Exit.[5]
The song was used in artist Elizabeth Price's 2012 Turner Prize winning video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979.
The song is sampled in Sharleen Spiteri's song All the Times I Cried.