Mama

"Your Mama Don't Dance" was an unlikely song, and an unexpected smash, for Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. The lively track from the duo's second album, ...

Ahh!](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/poison-open-up-and-say-ahh/) and watched "Your Mama" dance to No. Loggins and Messina broke up in 1976, then reunited for occasional tours during the 2000s. But they were particularly stoked when Presley began incorporating it into his concerts, sandwiched in the middle of a medley of rock 'n' roll oldies such as "Long Tall Sally," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Jailhouse Rock" and "Hound Dog." [Y&T](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/yt/) also covered it on their 1985 album, Down for the Count. Messina described his Arkansas-born stepfather as "not much of a mover or a groover" whose musical tastes ran toward country artists such as [Johnny Cash](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/johnny-cash/), [Hank Snow](https://theboot.com/tags/hank-snow/) and [Ernest Tubb,](https://theboot.com/tags/ernest-tubb/) and "was not into rock 'n' roll. "Your Mama Don't Dance" was an unlikely song, and an unexpected smash, for Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. But when we played it for audiences they would get up and dance immediately, and they thought they knew it already. "'Your Mama Don't Dance' was written to be a throwback song. It was just fun." It was not, like, a song from your heart that expresses the deepest possible emotions. It was written in the style of Wynonie Harris, 'Kansas City,' with a little bit of [Poison](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/poison/) released it as a single from their sophomore album, [Open Up and Say ...