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<p><img src="https://www.songfacts.com/img-artalbums-145-c2ef2b321a4451990c9558389d08d0c0.png"></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Album:&nbsp;</strong>French Kiss (<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/browse/years/1977" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">1977</a>)</p><p><br></p><ul><li>When we asked Bob Welch about this song, he explained: "The lyric was probably referencing my first wife (at the time) Nancy. The original placeholder/dummy lyrics for the chorus (before I had 'real' lyrics) were, 'my legs are sticks and my feet are stones.' I have the old songwriting cassette I used, and that's what I'm saying ;-).</li><li>The Fleetwood Mac version had 2 verses, the 'hit' solo album version (5 years later), had only 1 verse, in order to get it down to less than 3 minutes, for radio."</li><li><br></li><li>Bob Welch was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971-1974. He died in 2012 at age 65. Songs he wrote for Fleetwood Mac include "<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/fleetwood-mac/hypnotized" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Hypnotized</a>" and "<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/fleetwood-mac/the-bermuda-triangle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The Bermuda Triangle</a>."</li><li>Bob Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971, and they recorded this song on their 1972 album&nbsp;<strong>Bare Trees</strong>. It became a hit when Welch recorded it on his first solo album in 1977. Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac sang backup on Welch's solo version.</li><li>Welch wrote this at the Gorham Hotel on 55th Street in New York City. The hotel no longer exists.</li><li>In the 2010 Adam Sandler movie&nbsp;<em>Grown Ups</em>, this is fondly remembered as the song the guys would use as a make-out song.</li><li>Many Fleetwood Mac aficionados cite the band's original version as their first song to explicitly reference the softer, more commercial West Coast sound that they would later make their own.</li></ul><p><br></p>