Back Stabbers

What they do Smiling in your face All the time they want to take your place The back stabbers Smiling in your face All the time they want to take your place The back stabbers I keep getting all these visits From my friends They come to my house Again and again and again and again So are they there to see my woman I don't even be home but they still keep on coming What can I do to get on the right track Wish they'd take some of these knives out my back Yeah yeah yeah

Back Stabbers Written by Leon Huff, Gene McFadden & John Whitehead Performed by Elvis Costello Produced by Stewart Lerman & Randall Poster Musicians Elvis Costello - vocal Johnny Gale - guitar, backing vocal Conrad Korsch - bass Rich Pagano - drums Victor Axelrod - keyboards Kevin Keys - backing vocal Recorded Avatar Studios and Electric Lady Studios, New York Released April 15, 2016 Albums Vinyl: Music From The HBO Original Series: The Essentials: Best Of Season 1, 2016 Length 3:13 First known performance:  May 25, 1982, Melbourne, Australia - medley with King Horse Last known performance:  October 13, 2021, Memphis, TN - medley with We Are All Cowards Now      (1 known performances, 130 as a snippet) Alternate versions Back Stabbers / King Horse (Live 1983) Performed by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (with The TKO Horns) Musicians Elvis Costello - vocal, guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards Bruce Thomas - bass Pete Thomas - drums Jim Paterson - trombone Jeff Blythe - saxophone Paul Speare - saxophone Dave Plews - trumpet Recorded September 7, 1983, Austin, TX Released July 28, 2003 Albums Punch The Clock (Rhino/Edsel reissue), 2003 Length 4:47

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The O'Jays

1972

Back Stabbers

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MFSB

1973

MFSB

Tina Turner

1979

Love Explosion

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• Elvis Costello Reissues: Punch The Clock