Tush (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Tush


Artist = ZZ Top
from Album = Fandango!
B-side =
Released = 1975
Format = 7"
Recorded = December 30 1974 - March 23 1975
Genre = Blues-rock, hard rock
Length = 2:15
Label = London Records
Writer = Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
Producer = Bill Ham
Certification =
Last single = "La Grange" (1973)
This single = "Tush" (1975)
Next single = "It's Only Love" (1976)

"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album "Fandango!". It reached number 20 on the pop chart.

The song's name rhymes with "rush" not "bush" (as is evident in Dusty Hill's pronunciation) and is synonymous with the Texas slang "tush" meaning "Good enough". According to Billy Gibbons, they would describe something as either "tush", "plush", or "primo". Tush meant good enough, plush was pretty good and primo was excellent. However, it was never denied that the songpertained to buttocks either, and the vast majority of listeners, including many Texans quite familiar with local slang, stillconsidered the song a booty call.

The song is a twelve bar blues in the key of G.

It is also one of the ZZ Top songs on Fandango! sung by bassist Dusty Hill, the others being "Jailhouse Rock", "Balinese", and "Heard It on the X" (on which he and guitarist Billy Gibbons trade off vocals).

Charts

Other versions

* Nazareth performed a version of the song on the band's 1981 tour for their live album "Snaz".
* Kenny Chesney released a country version of the song in 2002 for the album "".
* Whitesnake performed a version of the song on their 1987/1988 tour with altered lyrics entitled "Tits".
* Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack recorded a version on their 2002 live cover album DisCover.

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