Songfacts®:

• "Some Of My Lies Are True (Sooner Or Later)" was the first single from Huey Lewis & the News, which formed in San Francisco after members of two different bands - Clover and Soundhole - got together to create a new band.
  
  The song is an upbeat rocker perfect for the many live shows the band played at clubs and other small venues. The lyric finds Lewis counterpunching a deceptive, manipulative person by doing his own slight of hand. He'll tell lies, but some of them are true.
• This is the song that got the band signed to Chrysalis Records. Actually, it wasn't the song so much as the video. MTV wasn't on the air yet, but Huey Lewis & the News made a deal with a local video production company called Videowest that had a cable TV show. Videowest made the video for free so they could show it on their program, and Huey Lewis & the News got to use it as a demo.
  
  Chrysalis is a British label that knew the power of music video - bands in the UK had been making them for years and TV stations throughout Europe played them. The video for "Some Of My Lies Are True" showed that the band understood the medium and earned them their record deal.
• In the irreverent video, the band is on a sewage pier in Ocean Beach, San Francisco, dancing around and acting goofy. In a Songfacts interview with Huey Lewis, he said the idea was to place the band somewhere unusual. "Just like the old Hullabaloo or Shindig! when James Brown would be set up at the beach or something, and you're going, 'What's James Brown doing at the beach, for Christ's sake!'" Lewis explained. "I loved all that juxtaposition."
  
  It set the tone for the band's later videos that carpet-bombed MTV over the next few years. The band was always having fun in their videos and strange things were always happening. And they never had anything to do with the actual song.
• The single, and the album, flopped hard, putting the band's deal with Chrysalis Records in jeopardy. They decided to produce their next album, Picture This, themselves and do whatever they could to land a hit, which meant digging through demos by outside writers. Chrysalis pushed them to record "Do You Believe In Love?," written by Mutt Lange, who had produced two albums for Huey Lewis' previous band, Clover. Those Clover albums stiffed, so the band wasn't thrilled with the idea, but their manager, Bob Brown, convinced them they could make it work. They tightened it up, leaned into the chorus, and polished it to a sheen, making it as radio-friendly as possible. Released as the lead single from Picture This in 1982, it did its job, giving the band their first hit. They got really good at hit-making really fast - their next album, Sports, had five hit singles.