Buster Poindexter (album)

Buster Poindexter
Studio album by Buster Poindexter
Released July 7, 1987
Genre Lounge music/Calypso music
Length 40:19
Label RCA Records
Producer Hank Medress
Buster Poindexter chronology
Sweet Revenge
(1984)		 Buster Poindexter
(1987)		 Buster Goes Berserk
(1989)
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Buster Poindexter is an eponymous album released in 1987 by Buster Poindexter, the alter ego of New York Dolls frontman David Johansen. Johansen re-recorded the track "Heart of Gold" as Buster Poindexter, which originally appeared on Johansen's 1981 solo album Here Comes the Night.

Track listing

  1. "Smack Dab in the Middle" - 3:52 (Chuck Calhoun, Michael Mains: Singing Ethel Merman in the Background)
  2. "Bad Boy" - 3:07 (Avon Long, Lil Hardin Armstrong)
  3. "Hot Hot Hot" - 4:07 (Alphonsus "Arrow" Cassell)
  4. "Are You Lonely for Me, Baby?" - 3:38 (Bert Berns)
  5. "Screwy Music" - 3:17 (Jimmie Lunceford)
  6. "Good Morning Judge" - 3:37 (Louis Innis, Wynonie Harris)
  7. "Oh Me, Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" - 3:52 (Jim Doris)
  8. "Whadaya Want?" - 2:44 (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  9. "House of the Rising Sun" - 3:40 (trad. credited to Josh White; Terry Holmes)
  10. "Cannibal" - 4:45 (David Johansen)
  11. "Heart of Gold" - 4:40 (David Johansen)

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