What's Your Name (Lynyrd Skynyrd song)
"What's Your Name" is a rock song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is the opening track on their album Street Survivors. It peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No. 6 in the top Canadian songs.
Background
Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Gary Rossington wrote "What's Your Name", while in Miami with producer Tom Dowd and Booker T. & the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper. The lyrics depict a true story of the band drinking at their hotel bar during a tour, when one of their roadies got into a fight. The band got kicked out of the bar, but they went into another room and ordered champagne. However, as the song suggests, the incident did not happen in the city of Boise, Idaho. Instead, when Van Zant found out that the band 38 Special (led by his younger brother Donnie) was starting its first national tour in the city, the lyric was changed.[1]
Chart performance
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| Canada RPM Top Singles |
6 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |
13 |
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