Stray Cats Built For Speed LP 1982 Canadian Press SIGNED Near Mint VINYL

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Stray Cats

Built For Speed

SIGNED BY THE BAND

EMI America ST-17070  1982 12" 33rpm (Canada)

Built for Speed is an album from the American rockabilly band the Stray Cats and was the band's first American album. It is essentially a compilation of 12 songs taken from the band's first two initially UK-released albums: six from Stray Cats and five from Gonna Ball, plus the title track, "Built for Speed", which had not previously been released in the UK. It was the most successful record for the band, with the videos for songs such as "Rock This Town" and "Stray Cat Strut" reaching MTV regular rotation status. The title track can also be heard in the 1984 film Surf II.

Mark Deming of Allmusic gave it four-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that the melodies and playing are strong enough to withstand datedness on what is "song-for-song the group's strongest album, despite the cut-and-paste manner in which it was created."

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Setzer except as indicated.

Side one

    "Rock This Town" – 3:24
    "Built for Speed" – 2:53
    "Rev It Up & Go" – 2:27
    "Stray Cat Strut" – 3:15
    "Little Miss Prissy" – 2:59
    "Rumble in Brighton" (Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom) – 3:11

Side two

    "Runaway Boys" (Setzer, Phantom)– 2:58
    "Lonely Summer Nights" – 3:16
    "Double Talkin' Baby" (Danny Wolfe) – 3:02
    "You Don't Believe Me" (Setzer, Phantom, Lee Rocker) – 2:54
    "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" (George Motola, Ricky Page) – 2:18
    "Baby Blue Eyes" (Paul Burlison, Johnny Burnette)– 2:47

Note: "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" is often miscredited as having been written by Mike Chapman, who recorded a song of the same name with his band Tangerine Peel. However, Chapman's "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" is a completely different song than the one the Stray Cats recorded; they just happen to share the same title. The Stray Cats' "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" was originally done by Eddie Cochran, and was written by George Motola and Ricky Page (regardless of what the original Built For Speed album or other various Stray Cats collections may claim).

Personnel

Stray Cats

    Brian Setzer – guitars, lap steel guitar, vocals
    Slim Jim Phantom – drums, vocals
    Lee Rocker – bass, electric bass, vocals

Additional personnel

    Charles Novick Studios - Design
    Gavin Cochrane - Photography

Condition:  LP is NEAR MINT in a paper inner sleeve in a hard card picture sleeve in VERY GOOD condition (SIGNED in gold ink).

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