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CAT MOTHER AND THE ALL NIGHT NEWSBOYS

 Grassroots rockers Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys formed in New York's Lower East Side in 1967,

comprising singer/guitarist Larry Packer, lead guitarist Charlie Chin, bassist Roy Michaels, 

keyboardist Bob Smith, and drummer Michael Equine; By year's end they were regularly headlining 

the Café Wha?, and soon were ensconced as the house band at the famed Electric Circus. 

In 1969 the group signed to Polydor Records, with longtime friend Jimi Hendrix agreeing 

to produce their debut LP The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away -- supported by 

a series of appearances as Hendrix's opener, the record generated Cat Mother 

& the All Night Newsboys' lone Top 40 hit "Good Old Rock and Roll,"

"THE STREET GIVETH...AND THE STREET TAKETH AWAY" CAT MOTHER 3:14"

Produced by Cat Mother & Jimi Hendrix

1969     LP     POLYDOR RECORDS      184 300  STEREO

MADE IN ENGLAND   ORIGINAL PRESSING

UNLAMINATED SINGLE COVER

This version: On the rear sleeve, tracks B2, B3 & B4 have been missed from the track-listing,

and a black sticker with these songs was added by Polydor on the back cover.

Barcode: none

LABEL: POLYDOR -  RED LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (rear & spine) 184 300     

Catalog on labels: 184300 A / 184300 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 184300 A//1?420   1 1   3

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 184300 B//1?420   1 1   3

On labels: STEREO

Made in England

ST 33

? 1969 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 3 o'clock circa)

Produced by Cat Mother & Jimi Hendrix

rim text reads "All rights......prohibited"

On back cover: Recorded at the Record Plant, NYC, Nov. 1968

Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1

Manufactured by Polydor Records Ltd., London

tracklisting

Side A: CAN YOU DANCE TO IT - FAVORS - BAD NEWS

BOSTON BURGLAR - HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER - MARIE

Side B: GOOD OLD ROCK 'N ROLL  a.SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN

b.LONG TALL SALLY  c.CHANTILLY LACE  d.WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON

e.BLUE SUEDE SHOES  f.PARTY DOLL

BRAMBLE BUSH - PROBABLY WON'T - TRACK IN 'A' (NEBRASKA NIGHT)

grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

This is a non-descript band who went Top 25 in July of 1969 with the song "Good Old Rock & Roll," 

which was co-produced by Jimi Hendrix, as was this album, The Street Giveth...and the Street Taketh Away. 

The amusing thing about the hit single is that, despite having snippets of "Sweet Little Sixteen," 

"Long Tall Sally," "Chantilly Lace," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Blue Suede Shoes," and "Party Doll" 

within its three minutes and five seconds, it is the original melody and music written by the five

 bandmembers which works better than the covers inside. Things do start to slide immediately, 

though, and the next song, "Favors," is an oddity and sounds nothing like "Good Old Rock & Roll." 

The keyboards become more dominant and the band begins to resemble a latter-day 

H.P. Lovecraft-meets-Procol Harum here. "Charlie's Waltz" takes things into even stranger 

directions; maybe Jimi Hendrix felt that his opening for the Monkees mandated he craft a song 

that sounded like "Last Train to Clarksville." Steven Roby's book Black Gold: The Lost Archives 

of Jimi Hendrix notes that the band opened for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in November of 1968 

and that Hendrix offered production suggestions but did not play on the album. 

That's the pity here. Half the songs are written by the bandmembers, while the other five 

were composed by various combinations of the men in the group...(AllMusic)