Ive done everything for you-Solid Gold

[vcantr000]

Sammy Hagar wrote it for Pat Benetar originally. She said it sounded too much like a guy song, so it got pitched to Rick.

[friscojoneswsb]

CLARIFY,,,HAGAR WROTE THIS SONG N HAD NO HIT SO LET RICK TRY IT,,,,NO 1 5 MILLION SOLD,,,,,I NEED A LOVER WASA MELLLONCAMP SONG PAT MADE BIGGER,, AN HIT ME WITH UR BEST SHOT WRITTEN BY CANADIAN ROCK ARTIST EDDIE SCHARTZ,,,,ALSO PATTI SMYTHE SONG WARRIOR WROT EBY NICK GILDER 'HOT CHILD IN TE CITY'

[dawnm3]

Why are they going so fast? Is it my computer? Love you Rick for a a few decades. :)

[TYTAM92]

I don't think melloncamp wrote hit me.If i was a betting man

[userbeckyfanricks]

rick hot babe

[drnrg31]

Pat Benatar's husband wrote it, but Hagar got credited for it, while Springfield sang it. Either way I'm glad Rick's version became a huge hit.

[altgal6]

Love the light blue suit! Rick Springield is so great!

[snoochy2]

I love this song. Rick Springfield is great. I wish I could have seen a Rick Springfield concert when I was young. Jerry J Sharell sang a good version of this song on Kids Incorporated or whatever. He has and had a great singing voice too.

[tatommy2]

Sammy wrote this song!!!!

[Lewismadmax]

Neal Geraldo co-wrote this song in 1975 for sammy Hagar, Pat Benatar chose to sing John Mellencamps song "hit me with your best shot" on her first album over this (john wrote that song as a joke), over this one. Sammy made this song, Rick re did it in 81.

Story finished

[misshair]

interesting....never knew that!!

altho I did know Mellencamp wrote a song Benatar sang..

cool!

[misshair]

wait a sec..

I know Mellencamp wrote 'I Need A Lover' that Benatar recorded..did he write Best Shot too...?

hmm..

trivia night on you tube!! ;)

lol

[IhateUallman]

They have wrote music for each other in the years of music. You would be surprised on how many were wrote for other Musician's.

[mlmr11]

I always thought this sounded like a Hagar song

Interesting

[maraskywalker]

Actually I think Rick did this song first. Pat Benatar's husband, Neil G., wrote this song for her. She didn't want to do sing it and they passed it on to Rick. This song helped make his come back his from "Speak to the Sky" single in the early 1970's. I think he does a great job with it.

[FergR]

I thought Sammy Hagar wrote it??????

[HemoJeff]

Yes, this was a Sammy Hagar song that appeared on an old live album of his, but it was first a hit for Rick.

[maraskywalker]

Sammy Hagar did SING the song but he did not write it. Pat Benatar's husband did. She didn't do it because she thought it was too masculine a song for her to sing. Rick was given the song after that. Sammy covered it a few years later.

[Rockhard1492]

Well, according to the 1978 album of Hagar's that it first appeared on, it says lyrics by Sammy Hagar. According to the liner notes in his newest best of collection, it was released by him as the b-side of his 1979 single, but it didn't take off, so he let Springfield do it and it became a hit. Even on lyric sites online it attributes Hagar as the writer. So I think you may have your stories wrong.

[HemoJeff]

Well, according to the credits in his 1978 album, it says lyrics by Hagar. According to many lyric sites on the net, it says lyrics by Hagar, and according to the liner notes in his recent best of CD, it says he wrote it as a b-side for his 1979 single, but it didn't do anything, so he let Springfield record it and it became a hit. So I think you might have your story wrong.

[HemoJeff]

Well, according to the credits in his 1978 album, it says lyrics by Hagar. According to many lyric sites on the net, it says lyrics by Hagar, and according to the liner notes in his recent best of CD, it says he wrote it as a b-side for his 1979 single, but it didn't do anything, so he let Springfield record it and it became a hit. So I think you might have your story wrong.

[HemoJeff]

I hit reply to the message below, and it keeps posting my response up here...what gives?!?!

[NineTailedFox4857]

Really? Huh, that's strange. I got my information from one of those biography tv shows a few years back. In the show, it said how Neil wrote it and they gave it to Springfield. I could of sworn Pat was on film saying such. Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But that's where I got my info. Either way, it's a good song, no matter who wrote it.

[NineTailedFox4857]

whoops, wrote this under my son's user name. This is maraskywalker.

[HemoJeff]

HAHA...you did the same thing I did. When I got home and responded, it auto logged me into my son's account (RockHard), then it didn't look like it took, so I posted again, and they all appeared at the top of the list rather than as a reply. Then today they popped into where they belong. Anyway...maybe Pat was lying...lol. It is just that everywhere I find the song, it is attributed to being written by Hagar, and he did first record it in 1978 which was before Pat made her first album.

[maraskywalker]

Okay, I went and found my Working Class Dog album (yes, I know it dates me) and it gives Hagar credit as the writer. You won. The tv show gave out wrong info or I'm just losing my memory as 40 approaches. lol!

One problem solved, now on to the economy....

[Psymaj]

I'm hitting 40 next Friday on the 8th, so I get that whole errr "lost my memory" thing. I had that album, too.

[MadameButterfly66]

Lew, I went to a couple of the Solid Gold tapings in Hollywood when I was younger...uhm, much younger..LOL Nice memories

Ciao Bello~

[brandongrif]

Sammy Hagar sounds a lot better!

[Lewismadmax]

I have his CD, I love Sammy, but he has no video of this, so I agree with you. At least Michael Jackson didnt remake this tho.

:D