Featured Unknown/Underrated Song*: April Wine's "All Over Town"

We love featuring quality undiscovered or unappreciated music with our series Top Tracks*.  Sometimes, the track is so good that it should have been a big hit but wasn't, either because it wasn't released as a single or was wrongly ignored by radio (hint:  most good songs would be loved by the public if radio gave them a chance...).

You might be familiar with this Canadian group from their song "Just Between You and Me".  You see, record companies (and by association radio stations) incorrectly felt that ballads were the only songs that hard rock groups could have hits with.  So the record company never released this song.

Try this one on for size, Capitol Records--years after your corporate decision, we are featuring "All Over Town" and not "Just Between You and Me".

 

"All Over Town"

April Wine

 

 

Lyrics and Music by Myles Goodwyn

 

 

Someone said you was, runnin' 'round
Like you owned the world
It's no secret, you're the talk of the town
You know, the best of the girls

That's right, and now you
Walked right out of my heart
You know it's all over town
I said you walked walked, right right, out of my heart
You know it's all over town
Now it's all over

You're so neat, you're so cute, you're so fine
You know that everybody wants some action
They see you comin' and they act like it's cool
Because they know that somethin's happenin'

That's right, because you
Walked right out of my heart
And now it's all over town
I said you walked walked, right right, out of my heart
You know the word's goin' 'round
Now it's all over, now it's all over

I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care

I don't care care what they say about us anymore
I don't care what they wanna do
Baby all my heart is for you
No matter what happens

There's no reason why we still can't be friends
You know we all need someone we can talk to
No matter what they say, we both know I'm right
After all we've been through

And now you walked right out of my heart
You know it's all over town
I said you walked (walked), right (right), out of my heart
You know the word's goin' 'round
Now it's all over
I said you walked, right out of my heart
I said you walked (walked), right (right), out of my heart
You walked right out of my heart
And now it's all over town