--- "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:59:33 -0700
> > From: Michael Coxe <michael@audities.net>
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Re: Mioderous songs
> > Message-ID: <20030618205933.S18321@audities.net>
> > 
> > GODSCOMIC@aol.com wrote:
> > >Has anyone mentioned Run Joey Run yet?
> > 
> > Hope you don't mean Kassentz & Katz's Run Joey
> Run.
> > The greatest bubblegum-punk song ever.
> > 
> >  - michael
> > 
> > NP: The Perfumed Garden vol 1 --- ugh, bad
> punk-psych, 
> >     switched to The Pleasure Fair (excellent
> soft-pop)
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:58:22 EDT
> > From: BCMcLane@aol.com
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: run joey
> > Message-ID: <50.1e6fa547.2c229cee@aol.com>
> > 
> > IS PAUL VANCE PRODUCTION, NOT...
> > 
> > 
> > Kassentz & Katz's Run Joey Run.
> > 
> 	To elaborate: The Kasenatz/Katz song to which
> Michael referred is
> "Quick Joey Small". It was a hit in 1968 for the
> duo's bubblegum factory on
> Buddah, and was released under the band name
> Kasenatz-Katz Singing
> Orchestral Circus. The song, which is indeed the
> greatest bubblegum-punk
> song ever (and the second-best song ever about a
> jailbreak, after the Thin
> Lizzy one), features the chorus, "Run, Joey, Joey,
> run, run / The hounds are
> on your trail". Hence, the confusion with the
> execrable 1975 teen-tragedy
> hit by David Geddes (written by Paul Vance and Perry
> Cone) entitled "Run
> Joey Run", an awful little melodrama about a
> pregnant teenaged girl who
> attempts to protect her boyfriend Joey from her
> homicidally-enraged father
> and in the process is accidentally shot to death by
> dear old Dad. To make
> things even more confusing, "Quick Joey Small" is
> sometimes subtitled and
> listed as "Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)".
> 
> 
> 	Gregory Sager

~~~you all have talked about this song several times.
i don't think i have ever heard it. part of me hopes i
never do. part of sick old me wants to hear it right
away....  i don't know if i have heard it and just
don't know and never paid attention to the lyrics (how
did i not?), but....what the hell?

jocelyn

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