Dirty White Boy

~ Recording by Foreigner

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)SD 29999
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead Games (Specialty pressing)ForeignerAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)SD 29999
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)ATL 50 651, SD 29999
1.1Dirty White Boy3:37ForeignerHead Games (Club Edition)ForeignerAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)30572 2
1.2Dirty White Boy3:41ForeignerSounds of the Seventies: 1979, Take TwoVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Special Products, Time–Life MusicOPCD-2638, SOD-19
1.7Dirty White Boy3:42ForeignerThe Very Best of ForeignerForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • XE1992-02-27
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-80505-2 XV
1.16Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerThe Very Best…and BeyondForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • GB1992-09-22
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-899992
1.16Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerThe Very Best…and BeyondForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7 89999-2, CD 89999
1.16Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerThe Very Best…and BeyondForeignerAlbum + Compilation
BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)D 124722
1.7Dirty White Boy3:42ForeignerThe Very Best of ForeignerForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Warner Music (global imprint of Warner Music Group, ‘W’ logo either with “Warner Music” or no text), Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-80505-2, CD 0065
1.16Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerThe Very Best…and BeyondForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-89999-2
1.16Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerThe Very Best…and BeyondForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567899992
1.7Dirty White Boy3:42ForeignerJuke Box Hero: BestForeignerAlbum + Compilation
ZoundsCD 27200569 B
1.2Dirty White Boy3:41ForeignerGuitar Rock: The Late '70sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Special Products, Time–Life MusicA-25261, R968-14
1.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)82799-2
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead Games (Remastered)ForeignerAlbum
  • DE1996-01-26
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-82799-2
1.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
  • JP1997-04-10
EastWest JapanAMCY-4061
1.2Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerThe Rock Album, Volume IVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
K‐tel (International budget record label)3904-2
2.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerClassic Rock: 1975-1979Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Time–Life MusicTL 559/16, TL559/16
1.13Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerThe Platinum CollectionForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • -1999
1.11Dirty White Boy3:41ForeignerJukebox Heroes: The Foreigner AnthologyForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • US2000-08-15
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)R2 79884
1.11Dirty White Boy3:41ForeignerJukebox Heroes: The Foreigner AnthologyForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • US2000-08-21
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)R2 79884
1.17Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerThe DefinitiveForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • ZA2002-05-27
Rhino (reissue label)CDESP 114
1.17Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerThe DefinitiveForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2002-05-27
Rhino (reissue label)8122 73596 2
1.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
  • DE2002-12-02
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)8122-78198-2
1.8Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerComplete Greatest HitsForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)R2 78266
1.8Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerComplete Greatest Hits (BMG Direct)ForeignerAlbum + Compilation
BMG Direct (BMG’s direct marketing company/club editions), Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)D144852, R2 78266
1.8Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerComplete Greatest HitsForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)WTVD 78266
1.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)R2 78198
1.17Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerThe DefinitiveForeignerAlbum + Compilation
1.8Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerComplete Greatest HitsForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • US2005-05-07
1.11Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerThe Definitive CollectionForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • US2006-03-28
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)8122 73385 2, R2 73385
1.11Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerThe Definitive CollectionForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2006-05-29
1.16Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerThe Very Best…and BeyondForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2006-07-07
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)CD 89999
1.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerHead Games (Limited Edition)ForeignerAlbum
  • JP2007-02-28
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)WPCR-12563
1.9Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerNo End in Sight: The Very Best of ForeignerForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • US2008-07-15
Rhino (reissue label)R2 512130
1.9Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerNo End in Sight: The Very Best of ForeignerForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2008-07-15
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)R2 512130
1.9Dirty White Boy3:40ForeignerNo End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (Expanded)ForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Rhino Atlantic (digital releases only!)
1.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbum
  • MX2009-07-14
Rhino Atlantic (digital releases only!)
3.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerOriginal Album Series (Foreigner / Double Vision / Head Games / 4 / Agent Provocateur)ForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)8122-79828-3
2.10Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerJuke Box Heroes: The Very Best of ForeignerForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2011-06-20
Music Club DeluxeMCDLX516
2.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead Games (limited edition)ForeignerAlbum
  • US2013-04-23
Mobile Fidelity Sound LabUDSACD 2052
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead Games (limited edition)ForeignerAlbum
  • US2013-04-23
Mobile Fidelity Sound LabUDSACD 2052
3.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerThe Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991ForeignerAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2014-10-10
  • GB2014-10-10
  • US2014-10-10
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Warner Music (global imprint of Warner Music Group, ‘W’ logo either with “Warner Music” or no text)8122795829
3.1Dirty White Boy3:39ForeignerThe Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991ForeignerAlbum + Compilation
Rhino Atlantic (digital releases only!)
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbumAtlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-81598-2
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbumAtlantic (Warner Music imprint)050 651, 29999-2
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbumAtlantic (Warner Music imprint)050 651, 29999-2
1.1Dirty White Boy3:38ForeignerHead GamesForeignerAlbumAtlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-81598-2

Relationships

engineer:Geoff Workman
producer:Roy Thomas Baker (producer)
Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France)
Ian McDonald (UK multi‐instrumentalist, formerly of King Crimson and Foreigner)
bass guitar:Rick Wills
drums (drum set):Dennis Elliott
electric guitar:Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France)
guitar:Ian McDonald (UK multi‐instrumentalist, formerly of King Crimson and Foreigner)
keyboard and synthesizer:Al Greenwood
background vocals:Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France)
Ian McDonald (UK multi‐instrumentalist, formerly of King Crimson and Foreigner)
Rick Wills
lead vocals:Lou Gramm (American rock singer-songwriter; Black Sheep, Foreigner & Shadow King)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Atlantic Recording Corporation (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor within the US) (in 1979)
Rhino Entertainment Company (not for release label use!) (in 2009)
recording of:Dirty White Boy

Dirty White Boy

writer:Lou Gramm (American rock singer-songwriter; Black Sheep, Foreigner & Shadow King)
Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France)
publisher:Somerset Songs Publishing Inc.
フジパシフィック音楽出版 (until 2014-12-31)
フジパシフィックミュージック (from 2015-01-01 to present)
later parody versions:Lily-White Boy