The All Night Workers-Why Dont You Smile EX++ Condition
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The All Night Workers - Dont Put All Your Eggs In One Basket/Why Dont you Smile - The record is in EX++ condition with no scratchs or lable ware. It plays like it was new with almost no backround noise. This record would make a great addition to any rock and roll inthusiast's record collection seeing as a copy as nice as this is incredibly hard to come by these days.
This single produced by Lee Harridan Productions has a B-side track - Why Don't You Smile - credited to Terry Philips, Jerry Vance (alias Jerry Pellegrino), Lou Reed and John Cale. This is the first known collaboration between Reed and Cale. Jerry Vance is credited as Music Director. Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket was a bit of a regional hit in a few regions.
The All Night Workers feature Otis Smith with Lloyd Baskin and Mike Esposito - Syracuse-area mates of Lou Reed. Baskin went later on to Seatrain, and Esposito went to the Blue Magoos. It has been said that Peter Stampfel (from the Fugs, then Holy Modal Rounders, and a solo career) was part of the line-up but he's clearly stated that he doesn't play on the All Night Workers 45. Rumors persist that Lou and/or John play on this single.
Why Don't You Smile was later covered by Donnie Burks on US Decca (Why Don't You Smile b/w Satisfaction Guaranteed, Decca 32134), and The Downliners Sect on their last UK Columbia album. The song finally re-surfaced in 1987 on Maureen Tucker's MoeJadKateBarry 12 inch EP (50 Skidillion Records MOE 1). It has also been covered by Spiritualized on their November 1991 Smiles/Sway single (7inch SPIRT 003, also available as 12inch), and now appears on the 2003 Spiritualized - The Complete Works - Volume One (2CD Spaceman/Arista OPM009CD)
