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Buster Poindexter (album)

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Released
  
July 7, 1987

Artist
  
David Johansen

Producer
  
Hank Medress

Length
  
40:19

Release date
  
7 July 1987

Label
  
RCA Records

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Buster Poindexter (1987)
  
Buster Goes Berserk (1989)

Genres
  
Punk rock, Lounge music, Calypso music

Similar
  
Buster's Happy Hour, Live It Up, Here Comes the Night, David Johansen, Shaker

Buster Poindexter is an eponymous album released by RCA Records in 1987 by Buster Poindexter, the alter ego of New York Dolls frontman David Johansen. Johansen re-recorded the track "Heart of Gold" as Buster Poindexter, which originally appeared on Johansen's 1981 solo album Here Comes the Night. The song "Hot Hot Hot" was a Billboard single and received heavy play on MTV.

Contents

Buster poindexter live in studio tv 1988


Track listing

  1. "Smack Dab in the Middle" - 3:52 (Chuck Calhoun, Michael Mains: Singing Ethel Merman in the Background)
  2. "Bad Boy" - 3:07 (Avon Long, Lil Hardin Armstrong)
  3. "Hot Hot Hot" - 4:07 (Alphonsus "Arrow" Cassell)
  4. "Are You Lonely for Me, Baby?" - 3:38 (Bert Berns)
  5. "Screwy Music" - 3:17 (Jimmie Lunceford)
  6. "Good Morning Judge" - 3:37 (Louis Innis, Wynonie Harris)
  7. "Oh Me, Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" - 3:52 (Jim Doris)
  8. "Whadaya Want?" - 2:44 (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  9. "House of the Rising Sun" - 3:40 (Traditional; credited to Josh White; Terry Holmes)
  10. "Cannibal" - 4:45 (David Johansen, Joe Delia)
  11. "Heart of Gold" - 4:40 (David Johansen)

Personnel

Buster Poindexter and His Banshees of Blue
  • Buster Poindexter - vocals
  • Patti Scialfa - background vocals
  • Crispin Cioe - alto & baritone saxophone
  • Joe Delia - organ, piano, horn arrangements
  • Bob Funk - trombone
  • Tony "Antoine Fats" Garnier - bass
  • Carl Hall - background vocals
  • Arno Hecht - tenor saxophone
  • "Hollywood" Paul Litteral - trumpet
  • Brian Koonin - guitar, banjo, mandolin
  • Lisa Lowell - background vocals
  • Tony Machine - drums
  • Soozie Tyrell - violin, background vocals
  • Louise Bethune - background vocals
  • Fred Wolcott - percussion
  • Larry Poindexter - accordion
    • Technical
  • John Sheard - associate producer, sinclavier and string arrangements
  • Bill Scheniman - engineer, mixing
  • Ria Lewerke - art direction
  • Ken Nahoum - photography

    • Songs

    1Smack Dab in the Middle3:56
    2Bad Boy3:08
    3Hot Hot Hot4:11

    References

    Buster Poindexter (album) Wikipedia
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