Lipstick, Powder & Paint: The New York Dolls Heard Them Here First

by N/A

Overview

Unlike other artists in Ace's ongoing, excellent Heard Them Here First series, the New York Dolls do not have an extensive catalog. They released only two albums while they were active, and this paltry discography forces compilers Ian Johnston and Mick Patrick to widen their overview to include early demos and live recordings from when the band started to fray but even that expanded overview accounts for nine tracks, hardly enough for a sizeable compilation. So, Johnston and Patrick do the smart thing: they add in cuts that were in the repertoire of Johnny Thunders, David Johansen and his swinging alter ego Buster Poindexter, plus songs the reunited Dolls performed in the new millennium. This isn't everything these post-Dolls offshoots covered, of course -- notably, nothing from Johansen's hit Animals medley is here -- but the compilers sharply sculpt Lipstick, Powder & Paint! to reflect the aesthetic of the New York Dolls, trading heavily on the trashiest, funniest R&B, pop, blues, rock & roll, and soul from the days before the Beatles. Unsurprisingly, the songs here are usually big and bawdy, flirting with vaudeville -- in this context, the boasts of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me Talking" don't seem threatening, they seem almost camp -- and that's the pleasure of the whole thing. The New York Dolls had a very specific aesthetic, one that worshipped the past while simultaneously satirizing it, and Lipstick, Powder & Paint! captures that delicate balance not through performance but through selection, which is something of a wondrous thing to behold. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	09/03/2013
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667056021
Rank:	100009

Tracks

1. Seven Day Weekend  - Gary "U.S." Bonds  - Doc Pomus  - Mort Shuman
2. Pills  - Bo Diddley  - Ellas McDaniel
3. Don't Mess with Cupid  - Steve Cropper  - Eddie Floyd  - Wilia Dean Parker  - Otis Redding
4. Don't Start Me Talkin'  - Sonny Boy Williamson
5. Bad Detective  -  Coasters  - Kenny Lewis
6. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man  - Willie Dixon  - Muddy Waters
7. (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown  -  Bell  - Kenny Gamble  - Leon Huff
8. Stranded in the Jungle  - Al Curry  -  Jayhawks  - James Johnson  - Ernestine Smith
9. Somethin' Else  - Bob Cochran  - Eddie Cochran  - Sharon Sheeley
10. Reach Out I'll Be There  - Lamont Dozier  -  Four Tops  - Brian Holland  - Eddie Holland
11. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone  - Tommy Boyce  - Bobby Hart  -  Revere
12. Too Much Monkey Business  - Chuck Berry
13. Are You Lonely for Me  - Bert Berns  - Freddie Scott
14. Crawfish  - Elvis Presley  - Ben Weisman  - Fred Wise
15. Uptown (To Harlem)  -  Chambers Brothers  - Betty Mabry
16. She Wants to Mambo  -  Chanters  - Maxwell Davis  - Gene Ford
17. International Playboy  - Bernard Broomer  - Eugene Dozier  - Lee Phillips  - Wilson Pickett  - Bunny Sigler
18. Alcohol  - Ray Davies  -  Kinks
19. Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style Again  - Bull Moose Jackson  - Arnold Lawson  - Sally Nix  - Toussaint Pope
20. Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear?  - Billy Austin  - Dave Bartholomew
21. Out in the Streets  - Jeff Barry  - Ellie Greenwich  -  Shangri-Las
22. Piece of My Heart  - Bert Berns  - Erma Franklin  - Jerry Ragovoy
23. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman  -  Basin Street Boys  - Leon Rene  - Otis Rene
24. Lipstick, Powder and Paint  - Jesse Stone  - Big Joe Turner

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Eddie Cochran   Primary Artist
Paul Revere & the Raiders   Primary Artist
The Jayhawks   Primary Artist
Sonny Boy Williamson II   Primary Artist
Bo Diddley   Primary Artist
The Chambers Brothers   Primary Artist
Big Joe Turner   Primary Artist
The Chanters   Primary Artist
The Four Tops   Primary Artist
The Coasters   Primary Artist
The Kinks   Primary Artist
Chuck Berry   Primary Artist
Basin Street Boys   Primary Artist
Gary "U.S." Bonds   Primary Artist
Elvis Presley   Primary Artist
Erma Franklin   Primary Artist
Otis Redding   Primary Artist
The Shangri-Las   Primary Artist
Archie Bell & the Drells   Primary Artist
Bull Moose Jackson   Primary Artist
Dave Bartholomew   Primary Artist
Muddy Waters   Primary Artist
Wilson Pickett   Primary Artist
Freddie Scott   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Steve Cropper   Composer
Bert Berns   Composer
Ernestine Smith   Composer
Jeff Barry   Composer
Leon Huff   Composer
Sally Nix   Composer
Bob Gruen   Photography,Liner Note Source,Cover Photo
Colm O'Brien   Photo Courtesy
Lee Phillips   Composer
Vicki Fox   Photo Courtesy
Bernard Broomer   Composer
Sharon Sheeley   Composer
Steve F'dor   Photo Courtesy
Sonny Boy Williamson II   Composer
Bunny Sigler   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Toussaint Pope   Composer
Al Curry   Composer
Nick Kent   Liner Note Source
Nina Antonia   Liner Note Source
Eugene Dozier   Composer
Jon Savage   Liner Note Source
Niall McCormack   Package Design
Billy Austin   Composer
Ian Johnston   Liner Notes
Wilia Dean Parker   Composer
Betty Mabry   Composer
Arnold Lawson   Composer
Kenny Lewis   Composer
Mark Jacobson   Liner Note Source
James Johnson   Composer
Bob Cochran   Composer
Mick Patrick   Photo Courtesy
Bobby Hart   Composer
Kenny Gamble   Composer
Kirk Roberts   Photo Courtesy
Lamont Dozier   Composer
Chuck Berry   Composer
Barry Miles   Liner Note Source
Ellie Greenwich   Composer
Tony Rounce   Photo Courtesy
Ben Weisman   Composer
Doc Pomus   Composer
Eddie Floyd   Composer
Eddie Holland   Composer
Fred Wise   Composer
Ellas McDaniel   Composer
Gene Ford   Composer
Lenny Kaye   Liner Note Source
Leon Rene   Composer
Roger Armstrong   Photo Courtesy
Jerry Ragovoy   Composer
Maxwell Davis   Composer
Jesse Stone   Composer
Ray Davies   Composer
Otis Rene   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer
Duncan Cowell   Mastering
Mort Shuman   Composer
Tommy Boyce   Composer