album: van halen 1984
release date: june 1984
song information: the song panama is the third track from the album 1984, the last album for van halen's first and original singer David Lee Roth (who is now officially back with van halen through their reunion tour from 2007-2008, whilst also recording their new album a different kind of truth from this year 2012).
the song was officially recorded in the year 1983 before the album 1984 was released, the song and album was recorded in Eddie Van Halen's home recording studio the 5150 studio (the term 5150 is an american police term for someone who is crazy and flipped out).
Format: the song panama was produced by Ted Templeman and was labeled by warner music group, and was directed by Pete Angelus, when Panama was viewed, the video was recorded as it was at a real rock concert, the song also has bits of comedy in the song, the song shows members of the band (Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth and Michael Anthony) flying through the air on a bit of cable.
The purpose of this song is to make the listeners dance to the music even though Van Halen's genre of music is hard rock, fast rock and heavy metal.
The song facts of panama is that the song was based around a car known as the panama express.
the second fact is that after Eddie's solo the song goes into a middle 8, and during the middle 8 Eddie reves the engine on his lambo which you can hear in the background.
the last songfact is that this song is a well known yet famous song aswell as jump, drop dead legs (has a stunning guitar solo) and hot for teacher.
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