David Johansen

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Personality Crisis 03:46 Tools
Stranded in the Jungle 04:45 Tools
Funky But Chic 04:01 Tools
Ain't Cha Glad 03:29 Tools
Strut Miss Lizzie 02:32 Tools
Rough On Rats 02:50 Tools
Frenchette 05:33 Tools
Girls 03:39 Tools
Donna 04:32 Tools
Alabama Song from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 04:30 Tools
Cool Metro 04:00 Tools
Melody 03:03 Tools
Pain In My Heart 03:28 Tools
Not That Much 03:04 Tools
Old Dog Blue 03:25 Tools
The Last Kind Words 04:11 Tools
I'm A Lover 03:36 Tools
Lonely Tenement 04:15 Tools
Alabama Song 04:28 Tools
James Alley Blues 03:34 Tools
Bohemian Love Pad 02:50 Tools
Justine 04:37 Tools
She 02:21 Tools
She Knew She Was Falling In Love 03:46 Tools
You Touched Me Too 02:22 Tools
Strut Miss Lizzie (feat. Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks) 02:31 Tools
Swaheto Woman 05:06 Tools
Flamingo Road 06:01 Tools
She Loves Strangers 03:02 Tools
There Ain't No Sweet Man 02:53 Tools
Big City 04:10 Tools
Johnsonius 05:30 Tools
In Style 04:07 Tools
Heart Of Gold 03:41 Tools
Wreckless Crazy 03:15 Tools
Here Comes The Night 02:53 Tools
Space Monkey 04:07 Tools
Build Me Up Buttercup 02:40 Tools
People Are Strange 03:50 Tools
My Obsession 02:40 Tools
Marquesa De Sade 03:50 Tools
You Fool You 03:02 Tools
I Want To Be At My Own Funeral 02:53 Tools
We Gotta Get Out of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life 04:25 Tools
Some Hearts 04:08 Tools
Suspicion 02:28 Tools
Reach Out I'll Be There 03:25 Tools
Party Tonight 02:52 Tools
Havin' So Much Fun 03:40 Tools
Imaginatin' Cocktail 02:43 Tools
Is this what I get for loving you 03:15 Tools
Rollin' Job 04:00 Tools
King Of Babylon 06:02 Tools
Old Dog Blue (Live) 04:00 Tools
Somebody Buy Me a Drink 04:10 Tools
Well, I've Been to Memphis 04:00 Tools
Last Kind Deal 04:11 Tools
James Alley Blues (Live) 06:02 Tools
Kickin' The Gong Around 03:25 Tools
Do Wah Diddy Diddy 04:02 Tools
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life - Live 04:31 Tools
Delia 06:38 Tools
Oh Death 04:01 Tools
Little Geneva 03:29 Tools
Katie Mae 04:18 Tools
Poor Boy Blues 03:18 Tools
On The Wall 02:56 Tools
Ma mule (My Mule) 03:24 Tools
Don't Start Me Talking 02:32 Tools
Richland Woman 03:39 Tools
Darling, Do You Remember Me 04:30 Tools
Looking For A Kiss 03:48 Tools
Ma Mule 03:24 Tools
Here Comes The Night - Live - Single Version 03:20 Tools
Swaheto Woman - Single Version 03:06 Tools
Blackmail 03:34 Tools
The Rope (The Let Go Song) 02:28 Tools
Furry's Blues 03:18 Tools
Personality Crises 05:01 Tools
Personality Crises - Live 04:04 Tools
Heard The News 04:24 Tools
Old Dog Blue - Live 04:26 Tools
Build Me Up Buttercup - Live 03:19 Tools
Personality Crisis - Remastered Live Version 04:26 Tools
Reach Out I'll Be There - Live 03:22 Tools
Stranded In the Jungle - Live 03:19 Tools
Lookin' For A Kiss 03:48 Tools
Frenchette - Live 04:30 Tools
Is This What I Get for Loving You - Live 03:47 Tools
Reach out I´ll be there 03:25 Tools
We Gotta Get Out of This Place 04:26 Tools
Darling Do You Remember Me 04:31 Tools
Kickin' the Gong Aroung 04:31 Tools
Bohemian Love Pad - Live 00:00 Tools
Funky But Chic - Live 04:30 Tools
Big Trouble 03:59 Tools
Sweet Revenge 04:46 Tools
Animals Medley 04:31 Tools
Donna - Live 03:36 Tools
We Gotta Get Outta This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life 04:31 Tools
Melody - Live 03:19 Tools
In my own time 03:26 Tools
Here Comes The Night (Live) 03:24 Tools
Animals Medley (Live) 04:23 Tools
Here Comes the Night [Single Version][Live][*] 03:20 Tools
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place / Don't Bring Me Down / It's My Life 04:35 Tools
N.Y. Doll 04:05 Tools
Too Many Midnights 04:52 Tools
My Morphine 06:05 Tools
Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me 00:00 Tools
The Rope 03:59 Tools
Ain't Cha Glad (Album Version) 03:29 Tools
Love Child 03:46 Tools
I Ain't Workin' Anymore 03:36 Tools
Deep Blue Sea 03:38 Tools
I Can't Be Satisfied 02:39 Tools
Death Letter 04:01 Tools
Mansion Of Fun 00:30 Tools
I Found A Love 04:21 Tools
Babylon 03:34 Tools
The Stinkin' Rich 03:59 Tools
I'll Go with Her 03:58 Tools
We gotta get out of this place/Don't bring me down/It's my life (live) 03:22 Tools
Swaheto Woman [Single Version][*] 03:06 Tools
Ham Hound Crave 03:12 Tools
Frenchette (live) 04:30 Tools
James Alley Blues - Live 05:59 Tools
Is This What I Get 02:39 Tools
Personality Crisis OST Винил / Vinyl 03:59 Tools
In Love Again 03:04 Tools
Jailbird Love Song 00:00 Tools
The Rope (The Let Go Song)* 04:52 Tools
Swaheto Woman (Single Version) 03:06 Tools
Hot Hot Hot 00:00 Tools
High Sheriff 00:00 Tools
Killing Floor 04:04 Tools
I'm ALover 04:30 Tools
Build Me Up Buttercup (Live) 00:00 Tools
My Grandpa Is Old Too 03:22 Tools
Kassie Jones 06:29 Tools
Trash 03:59 Tools
Strut Miss Lizzie Featuring Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks 02:32 Tools
a We gotta get out of this place b Don´t bring me down c It´s my life 03:59 Tools
Flamingo Raod 05:59 Tools
Donna (live) 00:00 Tools
Last Kind Deal - David Johansen 05:59 Tools
Rollin’ job 03:58 Tools
Is This What I Get For Loving You (Live) 03:22 Tools
Swaheto Woman [Single Version] 03:07 Tools
It's A Heartache 04:30 Tools
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My L 05:59 Tools
Stranded in the Jungle (live) 03:19 Tools
Funky But Chic (Live) 03:19 Tools
11 - David Johansen - Aint Cha Glad - www.torrentazos.com 03:22 Tools
Cool Metro - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
Darling, Do You Remember Me? 04:30 Tools
Here Comes The Night (Live - Single Version) 03:19 Tools
New York Doll 03:36 Tools
WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THE PLACE 03:19 Tools
Personality Crises (Live) 00:00 Tools
Flamingo Road (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
We Gotta Get Out of This Plac 04:30 Tools
There Ain't No Sweet Man (feat. Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks) 03:47 Tools
Bohemian Love Pad (Live) 00:00 Tools
Lookin' for a Kiss (Live) 00:00 Tools
New York Doll [ Fear City] 03:47 Tools
Melody (live) 00:00 Tools
Reach Out (I’ll Be There) - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
I’m A Lover - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
Justine (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Melody (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Swaheto Woman (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
She (Album Version) 03:47 Tools
Personality Crisis (End Of) 02:22 Tools
I Ain't Workin Anymore 03:36 Tools
I’m a Lover 02:31 Tools
We Gotta Get Out of This Place-Don't Bring Me Down-It's My Life 04:25 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot 00:00 Tools
Kickin The Gong Around 03:36 Tools
David Johansen - Party Tonight 00:00 Tools
Build Me Up Buttercup - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
The Girls Don't Come 00:00 Tools
MasterBlast 00:00 Tools
There Ain't No Sweet Man featuring Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks 00:00 Tools
David Johansen - She Loves Strangers 00:00 Tools
She Knew She Was Falling In Love (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Spider Web 03:47 Tools
Flowers In the City 03:47 Tools
Strut Miss Lizzie [feat. Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks] 02:31 Tools
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life (Album Version) 02:31 Tools
Reach Out (I'll Be There) [live] 02:31 Tools
David Johansen - Alabama Song 00:00 Tools
I Found A Love - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
Reach Out (I’ll Be There) 00:00 Tools
There Ain't No Sweet Man [feat. Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks] 00:00 Tools
David Johansen - Lookin' for a Kiss 00:00 Tools
We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life 00:00 Tools
Funky But Chic - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
David Johansen - You Fool You 00:00 Tools
Looking For A Kiss - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
Not That Much - Remastered Live Version 00:00 Tools
David Johansen - Here Comes The Night 00:00 Tools
The Animals Melody 00:00 Tools
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place\/Don't Bring Me Down\/It's My Life 00:00 Tools
Screwy music 04:25 Tools
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David Roger Johansen (born January 9, 1950) is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band New York Dolls. Early lifeJohansen was born in the New York City borough of Staten Island, New York to a librarian mother and an insurance sales representative father. Johansen's family was Catholic. His mother was Irish American and his father was Norwegian American. [edit] CareerJohansen began his career in the late 1960s as a lead singer in the local Staten Island band the Vagabond Missionaries and later in the early 1970s as the singer/songwriter in the protopunk band the New York Dolls. The Dolls only released two albums, their self-titled debut (1973), and Too Much Too Soon (1974). The bulk of the material was written by Johansen and guitarist Johnny Thunders. The Dolls were critics' darlings with a cult following, but their failure to break commercially may be due to their being ahead of their time in that their sound and image both anticipated and influenced aspects of the later 1970s' punk rock movement. Drugs played a role in the departure of Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan from the band in 1975. Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, along with Peter Jordan, Chris Robison and Tony Machine, continued on briefly, as their already booked gigs as the New York Dolls. Later that year, Johansen embarked on a solo career. His first two albums, David Johansen and In Style, featured several enduring originals. His fellow ex-Doll Sylvain Sylvain frequently performed with him, and his band covered many Dolls tunes in concert; his live albums Live It Up and The David Johansen Group Live document Johansen's reputation as an exceptional concert performer. The studio releases Here Comes the Night (which includes a signature number, "Heart of Gold") and Sweet Revenge again showcased his strengths as a writer of new material and featured a guest appearance by jazz saxophone player Big Jay McNeely. A number of the songs on "Here Comes the Night" were co-written with South African musician Blondie Chaplin. In the late 1980s, Johansen achieved a commercial breakthrough under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, accompanied by The Uptown Horns, performing a mixture of jazz, lounge, calypso, and novelty songs, and appearing as part of the house band on the television program Saturday Night Live. As Poindexter he scored his first hit song, "Hot Hot Hot," which in an interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air he called "the bane of my existence," owing to its pervasive popularity. "Hot Hot Hot" was initially written and recorded by Montserratian Soca artist Arrow. As Poindexter, Johansen often appeared with his band The Banshees of Blue. The initial Poindexter releases combined an eclectic selection of cover versions with Johansen's own compositions. Johansen/Poindexter went on to issue Buster Poindexter's Happy Hour, a CD of songs thematically linked by their subject matter: alcohol. Probably his most obviously jazz-influenced release to date, it also leaned towards '50s rock and roll. Following that came Buster Poindexter's Spanish Rocket Ship, a Latin album. Johansen acted in several films during the 1980s and 1990s, and had a brief role on the HBO drama Oz. He also appeared in the television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete in the episode "On Golden Pete," in which he played a park ranger. Among his more prominent roles are that of the wisecracking ghost of Christmas past in Scrooged as well as the part of 'Looney' in the movie, Let It Ride, playing opposite Richard Dreyfuss. He was also in the movie based on the old television series Car 54, Where Are You?. He can also be seen in the Jim White documentary film Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus in which he does a version of "Last Kind Words" (by Geeshie Wiley) while in a motel room. Johansen then turned to the rendition of country blues with his back-up group, The Harry Smiths. The group was named in tribute to Harry Everett Smith, who compiled the Anthology of American Folk Music; "James Alley Blues" and some of the other songs covered on their eponymously titled debut come from the Anthology. Johansen's second album with the Harry Smiths is titled Shaker. He also had a supporting role with Mick Jagger and Emilio Estevez in the movie Freejack and a supporting role as Looney in the comedy Let It Ride. Johansen is currently touring with a re-formed version of the New York Dolls. Owing to the success of the tour, in 2006 the Dolls released One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, their first album in nearly thirty years. It was critic Robert Christgau's choice for album of the year.[3] Johansen hosts a weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio while continuing to write and perform. In October 2007, Johansen participated in “The Staten Island Composers Project,” featuring work by three musicians who call the island home: Mr. Johansen; Vernon Reid, founder of the ’80s rock-metal pioneers Living Colour; and Galt MacDermot, best known as the composer of the musical Hair. The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island commissioned the program and asked each artist to write 20 minutes of music conveying something of his connection to the island often referred to as New York City’s forgotten borough. Mr. Johansen’s opus, a cinematic and unabashedly romantic Adagio scored mostly for strings, is called “Mara Dreams the Moon Gate of Uncommon Beauty.” Inspired by The Moon Gate of Uncommon Beauty, a round portal between two rockscapes in the Chinese Scholar’s Garden at the Staten Island Botanical Gardens. In September 2009, he appeared on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, the Travel Channel TV program, in which he toured Staten Island with the program's host. In addition to his own albums, Johansen contributed songs to the soundtracks of the films Times Square and The Aviator ("Flowers of the City" and "Ain't Cha Glad" respectively) and guests on About Them Shoes, a CD by veteran blues man Hubert Sumlin. Another non-album track of his, "Johnsonius", appears on the 1984 compilation A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse and "The Rope (The Let Go Song)", a track recorded during the sessions for his eponymous first album but not included on that, surfaced on the B-side of the single, "Funky But Chic". An artist noted for his musical unpredictability and versatility, Johansen has been a consistent blues enthusiast since the earliest days of the Dolls, with covers of songs by Bo Diddley and Sonny Boy Williamson having been among their earliest numbers. The 2006 Dolls CD Private World : The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972/3 featured the Dolls performing songs by Otis Redding, Gary US Bonds, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las, and Muddy Waters in addition to versions of songs from their two Mercury albums. Also featured on the CD was a previously unreleased Dolls number, "Endless Party". During a career that has seen many changes, Johansen nevertheless has worked consistently with certain musicians, including Sylvain Sylvain, drummer Tony Machine (a member of one of the later Dolls line-ups and a fixture in many David Johansen groups and throughout the Buster Poindexter period) and Brian Koonin, guitarist and banjo player with Buster Poindexter and The Harry Smiths as well as keyboard player with the New York Dolls for the reunion gig and the One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This CD & tour. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.