Run Joey Run - wikipedia Run Joey Run This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2011 ) `` Run Joey Run '' Cover with lyrics Single by David Geddes Released July 1975 Recorded Genre Pop rock Length 2 : 55 Songwriter ( s ) Paul Vance & Jack Perricone ( aka Perry Cone ) Producer ( s ) Paul Vance `` Run Joey Run '' is a teenage tragedy song performed by soft rock singer David Geddes. It was a US Top 40 hit which peaked at # 4 on Billboard 's Hot 100 Chart in the fall of 1975, and hit # 1 on the Cashbox Magazine 's Top 100. It would be Geddes ' biggest hit, and one of only two top 40 chart entries for him ( the other being `` Last Game of the Season ( Blind Man in the Bleacher ). '' Contents 1 Story 2 Reception 3 Chart performance 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 Glee cover 5 References 6 External links Story The song opens with a brief snippet of wordless choral a capella singing, then abruptly cuts to the voice of a female pleading with her father : `` Daddy, please do n't ! It was n't his fault ; he means so much to me. Daddy, please do n't ! We 're gon na get married ; just you wait and see. '' Geddes sings from first person narrative in the character of the titular young man. Joey recalls the events leading up to a recent tragedy involving his girlfriend Julie, which he relives in his mind every time he tries to sleep. Late one night, Julie calls Joey warning him not to come to her house ; she and her dad have had a fight about their relationship, and it turned violent. It is not explicitly stated, but her father 's desire for Joey to `` pay for what we 've done '' and her promise of marriage clearly implies that the young couple have had sex. Julie warns Joey that her father is armed and urges him to run away to safety. Instead, he rushes to her house and finds her with multiple bruises. She tearfully rushes to his arms. Julie 's father sneaks up behind Joey with his gun, intending to shoot him. Julie sees him and, just a split second before he pulls the trigger, steps into his line of fire. A wounded and bleeding Julie falls and Joey takes her into his arms ; she quietly begins to repeat her pleas to her father as her last words but loses consciousness in the middle of the word `` married. '' The accompaniment suddenly stops, the choral section is reprised, and the song closes with the refrain `` run, Joey, run '' repeated as the song fades out. Reception `` Run Joey Run '' was released in the late summer of 1975, by October the song had peaked at # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It would be Geddes ' only Top 10 hit ; his only other hit, `` Last Game of the Season ( Blind Man in the Bleachers ) '' would peak at # 18 in Billboard ( December 27, 1975 ) and # 23 in Cashbox ( December 6, 1975 ). According to Casey Kasem 's `` American Top 40 '', David Geddes had recorded several singles for major record labels ; none of them were successful. He decided to leave the music business and return to school. Geddes was attending law school at Wayne State University in Detroit when he was called by producer Paul Vance to record a song that Vance and Jack Perricone had written. Perricone, who had previously arranged a couple of recordings that David Geddes had made with a group called the Rock Garden, remembered Geddes 's voice from his earlier records and played the recordings for Vance, who thought that Geddes would be perfect for their new song. Geddes flew to New York City to record the vocals for the song ( with Julie 's lines sung by Vance 's daughter Paula ) and then returned to Detroit to begin his third year of law school. Several months later, the song, `` Run Joey Run '', began to race up the Billboard Hot 100. Geddes dropped out of law school with only one semester to go and re-entered the music business. Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1975 ) Peak position Canada 12 US Billboard Hot 100 US Cashbox Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1975 ) Rank Canada 118 US ( Joel Whitburn 's Pop Annual ) 60 US Cashbox 1975 Year End Chart 81 Glee cover `` Run Joey Run '' Single by Lea Michele, Mark Salling, Jonathan Groff, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris and Naya Rivera Released Format Digital download Recorded Genre Pop rock Length 2 : 51 Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Paul Vance Glee Cast singles chronology `` Physical '' ( 2010 ) `` Run Joey Run '' ( 2010 ) `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '' ( 2010 ) `` Physical '' ( 2010 ) `` Run Joey Run '' ( 2010 ) `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '' ( 2010 ) The song was covered in the Glee episode `` Bad Reputation ''. References Jump up ^ http://98.130.35.56/archives/70s_files/19751004.html Jump up ^ http://98.130.35.56/archives/70s_files/19751206.html Jump up ^ https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1975/12/27/us-top-40-singles-week-ending-27th-december-1975/ Jump up ^ http://98.130.35.56/archives/70s_files/19751206.html Jump up ^ Kasem, Casey ( August 30, 1975 ). American Top 40. Jump up ^ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4036a&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=90gec02fc52bie70noqn18euc2 Jump up ^ `` Run Joey Run, performed on Glee, was a top 5 single in 1975 Latest News Columbus Ledger Enquirer ''. Ledger-enquirer.com. 2010 - 05 - 04. Retrieved 2013 - 05 - 23. Jump up ^ Anderson, Kyle ( 2010 - 05 - 05 ). `` ' Glee ' Episode Covers Olivia Newton - John, MC Hammer, More - Music, Celebrity, Artist News ''. MTV.com. Retrieved 2013 - 05 - 23. Jump up ^ http://98.130.35.56/archives/70s_files/19751004.html Jump up ^ Bac-lac.gc.ca Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1999 ). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin : Record Research Inc. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 142 - X. Jump up ^ http://98.130.35.56/archives/70s_files/1975YESP.html External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Run_Joey_Run&oldid=799949431 '' Categories : 1975 songs Songs written by Paul Vance Teenage tragedy songs Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from May 2011 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 10 September 2017, at 19 : 43. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: what is the song run joey run about
Answer: Geddes sings from first person narrative in the character of the titular young man. Joey recalls the events leading up to a recent tragedy involving his girlfriend Julie, which he relives in his mind every time he tries to sleep