Brownsville Station Band

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Brownsville Station, a seminal Ann Arbor, Michigan rock band best known for the singles "Smokin' in the Boy,s Room" (a deliberate misspelling) and "Martian Boogie," was founded in 1969 by guitarist and singer/songwriter Cub Koda. Another song, "You Put the Light on Me" also received modest airplay in the Detroit markets. Other original members included Mike Lutz (guitar/vocals), T.J. Cronley (drums), and Tony Driggins (bass/vocals). After T.J. Cronley left, he was replaced by Van Wert, Ohio native Henry "H-Bomb" Weck and in 1975 multi-instrumentalist and Detroit session musician Bruce Nazarian joined the band (it was Nazarian who sang lead on "Lady Put the Light On"). "Smokin'" reached #3 in the Billboard charts, eventually selling over two million copies, and was covered a decade later by eighties metal band Mötley Crüe. Their second highest charting single was a cover of Gary Glitter's "I'm The Leader Of The Gang" which went to #50. Best known as a live act fired up by Koda's onstage antics, the band's name was chosen because it was so long that it took up most of the marquees that rock venues used in that era, thereby hogging the limelight from whoever Brownsville happened to be playing with.

Brownsville disbanded in 1979, with the individual members going their separate ways.