Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)
"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby and recorded by Huey Lewis and the News. It became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, the band's third. Set in Birmingham, Alabama, the song marries the Biblical image of Jacob's Ladder to someone who rejects proselytizing evangelists, and is instead struggling to get through life one day at a time: Step by step, one by one, higher and higherStep by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. A music video was filmed of the band performing the song in a live concert.
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Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)
"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby and recorded by Huey Lewis and the News. It became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, the band's third. Set in Birmingham, Alabama, the song marries the Biblical image of Jacob's Ladder to someone who rejects proselytizing evangelists, and is instead struggling to get through life one day at a time: Step by step, one by one, higher and higherStep by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. A music video was filmed of the band performing the song in a live concert.
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Jacob’s Ladder ist ein Lied vo ...... erschien auf dem Album Fore!.
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"The Heart of Rock & Roll" (Live)
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1987-01-05
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"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 son ...... ng the song in a live concert.
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Jacob’s Ladder ist ein Lied vo ...... erschien auf dem Album Fore!.
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