The Downtown Matinee Coreys

Song Length 4:02 Genre Country - Cowboy, Country - General
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Language English
Era 1950 - 1959

Lyrics

The Downtown Matinee
Art, Margie & Alton Corey
Copyright 2000 (c) BMI

1st Verse
All of my idols rode white stallions
At the Downtown Matinee
I cheered the good guys, booed the bad
Loved Cowgirls who would say:
"Rope me a pony, build me a campfire,
we'll sing the day away"......
You could ride forever,
At the Downtown Matinee......

Chorus

Now, we'd hunt for outlaws down in the front row
Raise our guns up to the sky
Ridin' and ropin' and all that kid stuff
You might even say, "Oh those were the days!"
How we had it made!
At the Downtown Matinee............

2nd Verse
We rode with John Wayne, sang with Roy Rogers
Rescued a runaway train
Now the popcorn's gone. the good guys won
But memories still remain
Me and my brother vowed one another,
We'd cover each other always.
And we will ride forever
At the Downtown Matinee............

Chorus Repeat..................

Totally like the vocal and the instrumentation. Nice steel guitar and harmonica work. Enjoying the backing vocals and the vocal deliveries in general. Interesting and creative chord progression. Nice job with this song! I could see this ending up in a movie soundtrack. Cool hook and nice variations on the delivery of it.

What a surprise! I didn't know you wrote cowboy music! I love that stuff! The fiddles, guitars, slow tempos...the instrumentation is like the Michael Martin Murphy. Remember "Wildfire" and "Geronimo's Cadillac"? Lyrically, it's full of memories and the wistful loping melody follows that theme.

Good nostalgic song about being a kid at the Saturday matinees. Been there done that.This would be a good song to pitch to Willie Nelson for an album cut

You already know I love this one!! Would be first or last cut on one side of the "Corey's Greatest Hits"!! I really like your vocal on this...lots of feeling!!

Nice vibe, nice story line and great instrumentation. Definitely gives a great country vibe and the story line puts you right where the song is. Great job.

very unique song i liked the idea and the story you included in the song nice job

This is a good song that is well arranged and played. The theme of nostalgia for youth gone by is a familiar one and should resonate with a lot of listeners. It might have some success on the radio if you can find a way to get it on the playlist, but that'w very difficult to do. I'm not sure if there is potential for it on film or on TV because it deals specifically with the recalling of days spent at the local movie house as kids, and it may be hard to find a scene that this would work with.

reminds me of the song saturday at the movies. lyrics were very good. brought back memories when I use to see movies.

I like the sound of the drums and harmonica - I also like the lead guitar riffs - sounds a little like a young Kenny Rogers.

Lyrics Margie, Art & Alton Corey Music Art Corey
Producer A. Corey & Ed Tree Performance A. Corey & Ed Tree

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