The John Hiatt Archives

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1979 MCA

LP. MCA 3088

CAS. MCAC 748

CD. MCAD 31358

1993 BGO records (2 on 1 CD)

CD. BGO CD 176

2002 Universal

CD. 31358

???? rainbow music group (australia)

CD. MFPCD 047

1

You used to kiss the girls

2:32

2

The negroes were dancing

2:43

3

2:58

4

4:18

5

(No more) Dancing in the streets

2:21

6

5:17

7

The night that Kenny died

2:33

8

2:54

9

You're my love interest

3:14

10

Take off your uniform

4:06

11

Sharon's got a drugstore

2:11

12

3:15

Total running time:

38:22

Musicians
John Hiatt:	Guitar Vocals
Jerry Conway:	Drums
Bruce Gary	Drums
Thom Mooney	Drums
B.J. Wilson	Drums
Doug Yankus	Guitar
Veyler Hildebrand:	Bass
Jon Paris:	Guitar Bass
Todd Cochran:	Organ Piano Keyboards
Etan McElroy:	Piano Vocals Background Vocals

Credits
Produced:	Denny Bruce
Engineer:	Russ Gary
Second Engineer:	Michael Carnevale
original art direction:	john van hamersveld
photographer:	nick rozsa
management:	denny bruce havana moon, hollywood

Note
All songs written by John Hiatt except "Madonna Road" (Jim Wismar/John Hiatt) Recorded January 1979
press photo

*allmusic.com*
Conventional wisdom at the time was that MCA Records had signed John Hiatt (who had languished without a record contract for four years) with the idea that he would be their Elvis Costello — a singer/songwriter in the fashionable punk/new wave style. Certainly, Hiatt has stripped down and roughed up from his Epic records here, fronting a straight-ahead guitar rock band (that was capable, of course, of playing the obligatory reggae number), eschewing the stylistic diversity he reveled in before, and throwing out snappy, aphoristic lyrics in a highly processed voice. None of this quite turns him into Elvis Costello, although the mean streak he reveals would serve him well later.