<Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina </Td> </Tr> <P> "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a hit 1972 song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina . Released on their self - titled album Loggins and Messina, it reached number four on the Billboard pop chart and number 19 on the Billboard Easy Listening Chart as a single in early 1973 . </P> <P> This song, whose refrain and first verse is done in a blues format, deals with the 1950s and 1960s lifestyle concerning the generation gap, where the parents oppose the Rock and Roll Revolution, of the younger generation, which includes the rebelliousness against the old society that monitors curfews on dating, as well as being arrested for making love with a girl in the back seat of a car, during a drive - in movie, which happens during the bridge section of the song . </P>

Who sang your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll