Stray Cats

The Stray Cats first album. They flew to London to get in on the rockabilly sound and recorded this album over there. Radio hits followed with Stray Cat Strut and Rock This Town, both on this album. Brian Setzer’s Gretsch sounds incredible. Man, can he play! If you are into that 50s sound and rockabilly, the journey starts here. A great album!

This is The Stray Cats first album. This album has never been released in the United States. Six of the songs from it, including the hits "Stray Cat Strut" and"Rock This Town", were issued on the band's first American album Built for Speed. "Storm the Embassy" is about the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80 and may be the only time the Stray Cats recorded a political song. 1. "Runaway Boys" ~ (Brian Setzer, Jimmy McDonnell) - 3:03 2. "Fishnet Stockings" ^ (Brian Setzer) - 2:25 3. "Ubangi Stomp" ^ (Charles Underwood) - 3:14 4. "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" ~ (George Motola, Ricky Page) - 2:21 5. "Storm The Embassy" ^ (Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom) - 4:08 6. "Rock This Town" ~ (Dave Edmunds, Brian Setzer) - 3:28 7. "Rumble in Brighton" ^ (Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom) - 3:16 8. "Stray Cat Strut" ~ (Brian Setzer) - 3:16 9. "Crawl Up and Die" (Brian Feli, Jim Feli) - 3:13 10. "Double Talkin' Baby" ~ (Danny Wolfe) - 3:05 11. "My One Desire" ~ (Dorsey Burnette) - 2:57 12. "Wild Saxophone" ^ (Brian Setzer) - 3:01

Had their first US release Build for Speed that included (all?) of these tracks. This MOV pressing is spectacular, clean, quiet and heavy....and best of all NEW! Some of these tracks had slipped my memory but they came right back and sound great. The MOV vinyl is dead flat and plays beautifully.

I bought this import lp when it came out. It's a good lp that reminds me of 1981, but I always preferred the Cramps retro sound. The Stray Cats were produced by Dave Edmunds and feature a clean production sound and pretty faithful retro 50's sound mixed with a little punk; whereas, The Cramps were taking the same retro sound but played and looking like they had been living in a coffin for thirty years since the 50's, oozing with dirt and grime. The Stray Cats debut lp appealed to a certain segment of guys (and girls) who wanted to dress like 1950's greasers and sock hop girls. This rebel Elvis/Gene Vincent image continued to punk bands like Social Distortion and the whole psychobilly movement ( The Meteors, etc.) and still continues strong today. I prefer The Blasters to The Stray Cats, but you can't deny there are some really good songs on this first release (Runaway Boys, Rock This Town, Rumble in Brighton, Stray Cat Strut). I just never thought the whole retro sound and look would continue like it has and we have The Stray Cats to thank for being one of the founders of this 1950's retro movement.

a cd will sound better than this 2021 pressing.

Excellent music. Love the upright bass! The stray cat strut really rocks this town! Inside out! Missed a chance to see Brian Setzer at La Zona Rosa, in Austin Dec 10, 2011. But my son said he was awesome! Still rock-a-billy-ing...And Slim Jim was still with him. For some songs anyway!

At long last the 1st release by the Stray Cats with all of the original Credits!The record that 'made' the Stray Cats a household name.Glad to see the Philadelphia connection in the credits... Bobby Startup & then Philly based manager, Tony Bidgood.

Great press

This takes me right back to the early 80's when there was a profusion of music styles on the go and before the New Romantics (not my cup of tea!!) took over, although my preference is for Blues and Rock (not Heavy Metal though), I was also quite partial to Punk, Disco and Soul and this particular Rockabilly album was one of my favourites, in fact I was devastated when it and my entire collection of tapes - yep tapes - were stolen from my car.I'm pleased to be re-united with it after such a long time and even more pleased that the memory of it hasn't faded after all this time.

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Great price, came on time, would buy again.

Brian Setzer is a greatly underrated guitarist

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