And the Cradle Will Rock...

About And the Cradle Will Rock...

"And the Cradle Will Rock..." is a song written and performed by Van Halen. It appears on their 1980 album Women and Children First and was released as a single. It is also the first song released by the band that featured the keyboard playing of Eddie Van Halen. The song begins with what sounds like a guitar, but is, in fact, a flanger-effected Wurlitzer electric piano played through Eddie Van Halen's 1960s model 100-watt Marshall Plexi amplifier. .

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About this song

Credited to

Van Halen

Album

Best of Volume 1 · Track 5 of 17

Released

September 24, 1996

Duration

3:33

On Last.fm

139,023 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Best of Volume 1