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Dire Straits' first single, this song is about a group of guys who go to a club after work and catch a local band called Sultans Of Swing. It's one of those bar bands that has pretty good chops but lack the ambition (and youth) to go any further. At least one member - Harry - has a day job and is doing alright. The song veered away from the waning disco style and the nascent punk movement to become a sizable hit and launch Dire Straits' career Group leader Mark Knopfler got the idea for song this from watching a lousy club band perform. As the story goes, Knopfler was in Ipswich on a rainy night. He ducked into a bar where a mediocre band was closing out the night to an audience that was maybe four or five drunks unaware of their surroundings. The hapless band ended their set with the lead singer announcing, with no apparent irony, "Goodnight and thank you. We are the sultans of swing." Said Knopfler: "When the guys said 'Thank you very much, We are the Sultans of Swing,' there was something really funny about it to me because Sultans, they absolutely weren't. You know they were rather tired little blokes in pullovers." Knopfler got a lot of songwriting ideas from observing everyday people, something that got harder to do when he became famous. "Sultans Of Swing" was one of five songs Dire Straits included on a deme tape they made on the cheap in July 1977. A BBC DJ in London named Charlie Gillett got a hold of the demo and started playing the songs that August, which set off a bidding war for the band. They signed with the Vertigo label and made their debut album with producer Muff Winwood. "Sultans" was released in their native UK in May 1978 a few weeks ahead of the album. They toured there around this time and benefited from great reviews, but the song didn't chart in the UK until March 1978, peaking at #8 in April (the album reached #5 that same month). In America they caught on faster. The album was released there in October 1978 with "Sultans" issued as a single in January 1979, a month before they started their first US tour. As the song and album were peaking in the UK in April, they were doing the same in America, but reaching greater heights, with the song going to #4 and the album to #2 . The song makes no attempt to simulate the titular bar band - it's not even in a swing rhythm. In fact, there's quite a disconnect between Dire Straits, a band with outstanding musicianship led by guitar virtuoso Mark Knopfler, and the Sultans Of Swing, a group of weekend warriors playing for a handful of punters. This is unusual: Most songs about fictional musicians make an effort to sound like those musicians. Elton John getting glam to evoke Bennie And The Jets, for example. A singer-songwriter from Indiana named Bill Wilson, who died in 1993, claimed that he wrote the lyrics to this song. He would often tell the story in concert, which was recorded for a 24-track CD that was released by a production company which recorded various artists between 1989-1995. One of the tracks is Wilson (identified only as "B. Wilson") performing "Sultans Of Swing." There is an asterisk after his name and on the CD it says that this was from a live show performed at The Warehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Before Wilson plays the song he says the following: "I do this thing I co-wrote about, I guess, it's been about 12 years ago I wrote the lyrics and a friend of mine used to work a lot of sessions for my old producer, Bob Johnston, and worked a session with this fellow from England by the name of Mark Knopfler. Has his own group over there called Dire Straits. He had this little melody. It sounded like 'Walk, Don't Run.' And he had this little story concerning a band that nobody wanted to listen to. Only a few people show up to hear. So we got together one night after the session and tossed these lyrics around on a napkin and I guess I wound up writing most of the lyrics to the tune. Made enough money to buy a new Blazer that year I remember, so...Dire Straits' First Single, This Sound Effects Free Download. Sound Effects Downloader To Help You Download The Highest Quality Dire Straits' First Single, This Sound Effects Free Download For TikTok Videos. You Just Search Sound Effects And Download.