50,000 Watts Of Power
Now, this one's a bit complicated.
Well, the song as such is all but complicated. Two chords (ok, a third one right at the end) and a guy mostly talking.
Roadrunner can be found on The Modern Lovers' only (self-titled) album, which was released in 1976, when the band had long ceased to exist. Jonathan Richman would name his backing band The Modern Lovers for quite some time, but none of the original members were ever part of that. Jerry Harrison had joined Talking Heads and drummer David Robinson had already become a member of The Cars.
I took the effort to track down and (hopefully) correctly identify all versions of this song (with a lot of help from Simes' Jonathan Richman Pages and Daniel Howards Modern Lovers Discography).
All versions (unless otherwise noted)
Jonathan Richman (git/voc)
Jerry Harrison (kb/voc)
Ernie Brooks (bg/voc)
David Robinson (dr/voc)
March or April 1972, Elektra Studios, Los Angeles, produced by John Cale
March or April 1972, Elektra Studios, Los Angeles, produced by John Cale
June 1972, Dinky Dawson's basement studio, produced by Kim Fowley
Autumn 1973, Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, produced by Kim Fowley
additional musicians: Mars Bonfire (git)
1971 or 1972, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, produced by Ernie Brooks
additional musicians: John Felice (git)
Autumn 1971, Intermedia Sound, Boston
Spring/Summer 1974, CBS Studios, Fulson Street, San Fancisco, produced by Matthew King Kaufman and Glen Kolotin
Jonathan Richman & Earth Quake [Robbie Dunbar (git), Gary Philips (git/voc), Stan Miller (bg), Steve Nelson (dr), John Doukas (voc), Ron Rhoades (voc)]
1977, Live
Leroy Radcliffe (git), Asa Brebner (bg) D. Sharpe (dr)
A posting like this one couldn't be complete without a couple of cover versions:
If you happen to have another version of this song, feel free to send it in and I'll include it in this list.
Labels: Cover, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, Music
posted by absonderpop at 3:08 PM
5 Comments:
Awesome page! What a wonderful idea.
I'm getting forbidden errors for a few files:
http://www.sinia.de/music/roadrunner/The_Modern_Lovers_Roadrunner_(Alternate_Version).mp3
http://www.sinia.de/music/roadrunner/The_Modern_Lovers_Roadrunner_(Live).mp3
http://www.sinia.de/music/roadrunner/The_Modern_Lovers_Roadrunner_(Demo).mp3
Thanks,
W
http://my-obsession.net
Fixed that.
Files should work now.
Thanks, Netzhaut
Jonathan Richman AND The Jazz Butcher? Is this heaven?
The Modern Lovers... such a great band!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKoWNxKmCM
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