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Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
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Wikipedia article
"'Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young'" was Faron Young's first number-one song and his fifth consecutive top ten hit. It spent three weeks at the top of the 'Billboard' country music chart in 1955.
Background
"This was a tune I detested", Young said. "Ken Nelson made me record this song. I put it out and it was a big, big hit. Then I got to liking it."Faron Young, guest, 'The Ralph Emery Show', WSM Radio, October 16, 1975. The song mentions a Wampus cat.
The song idea came to Joe Allison while watching a gangster movie starring a young John Derek. Allison explained, "All through this picture he said, 'I want to die young and leave a good-looking corpse.' It struck me as a good idea for a song, so I wrote 'Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young.' I didn't write it for anybody, but when Ken Nelson heard it, he said, 'We'll do that with Faron Young.'"Joe Allison, interview with Diane Diekman, Nashville TN, August 26, 2000.
Cover versions
* A 1955 version by Eddie Cochran was released in 1997 on the album 'Rockin' It Country Style'.
* Nick Lowe released a version of the song on his 1984 album 'Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit'.
Popular culture
*'Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story' is a 2007 biography written by Diane Diekman and published by the University of Illinois Press.
References
Category:1955 songs
Category:Songs written by Joe Allison
Category:Faron Young songs
Category:Eddie Cochran songs
Category:Nick Lowe songs
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