Boys Town Gang's "Cruisin' the Streets" - first pr

[Marcio**]

Boys Town Gang: "Cruisin' the Streets", Moby Dick.
USA 1981. Disco maxisingle.
Lead vocals: Cynthia Manley.
Bill Motley, a bold girl encourages 'all you honky guys' to find a boy friend in the street milieu.
The record may be the start of Boys Town Disco - the genre description being used in stead of Gay Disco, being more acceptable. The number contains an almost pornograhic 'teatre play' describing a homosexual rape (only the first pressings had that - after the record had success, the porno was dropped). The reverse side contains 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' that became the real big hit of Boys Town Gang.
Other records have no gay contents but are adressed to a gay audience.


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[markydefad]

Is is just me or does anyone else hear the bassline in Cruisin' The Streets as being "lifted" from an earlier disco classic???? :-?

da-da-da-da
da-da-da
da-da-da-da

1-2-3-4
1-2-3
1-2-3-4

Listen and see if it brings somthing else to mind....maybe this is common knowledge--but I only realized it awhile back when I taped the original disco classic and heard the similarilty. :D

BTW, Bill Motley of Boystown Gang always did covers of songs from the past...this one was the exception, or so I thought....

P.S. I think Cynthia Manley was talkin' about "HUNKY" guys not "HONKY" guys...although it does sound like "honky" I will admit.

[Videoskooter]

Marky, it has parts of Costandinos' and Moroder's stuff and "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. is in the same league when you listen to the rhythm guitar in both songs.

[markydefad]

Hey vs,

Well those are not what I'm hearing ...think Salsoul!!!!

[EricHG23]

I haven't heard the full version in a while but I never thought the gay part was specifically a *rape* Am i remembering wrong?

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[markydefad]

Nope. no RAPE!!!!!!!!! :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :o

Just back-alley sex...while the ho watches.

Then the cops come and call her the c-word... :x

and everyone (cops included) ends up in an orgy!!! :D :D :D :D

Ah...it's so San Francisco!!! :P

[nrgbeat]

Then the cops come and call her the c-word... :x

The cops call her a ****? How disgusting!

[SandraDee]

That's cops for you! :-?

[markydefad]

OK, back to MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! :D

Doesn't anyone hear the similarity in the "Cruisin" The Streets" bassline hook to the same bassline hook used in a Salsoul classic??? :-? :-? :-? :-?

It's buggin' me. I played both last night back to back and it's defintely "lifted" or, ok, let's just say "inspired by" __________.

Name that tune. Think Salsoul!!!!!

[SandraDee]

OK I'm going away to play Cruisin The Streets now & see if I'm struck with inspiration! :-? :lol:

[SandraDee]

I was kinda inspired Blanche. I do hear a similarity in the bassline area to Love Committee's 'Just As Long As I Got You'. Do you get my drift? :-? :)

[markydefad]

Oh Sandy...you disappoint me. No think Loleatta!!!!

[Mixmachine]

I never listen (or played) this cut , I played “remember me” on the 12” flip and later moved to the Disconet re-mix, so I didn’t know until now about the subject matter here, but my first thoughts are Why a fine singer like Cynthia Manley lend herself to sing trashy lyrics like this ? :roll: Hmmmmm, Oh well, I guess we can’t complain to much about Gangster Rappers lack of creative lyrics then…

OK I'm going away to play Cruisin The Streets now & see if I'm struck with inspiration! :-? :lol:

Well, Judging by the description of the inhabitants of that alley you may be struck with something else :lol: :lol: :lol:

[SandraDee]

I hate to disappoint! :lol: Loleatta you say? Could it be 'Love Sensation'? That's a similar tempo with a similar 'walking' bassline. :-? Salsoul's basslines are quite inspirational aren't they? I always thought Dan Hartman's 'Instant Replay' nicked the bassline from Double Exposure's 'My Love Is Free'. :o

[Discovery]

da-da-da-da
da-da-da
da-da-da-da

1-2-3-4
1-2-3
1-2-3-4

"Funkytown" - Lipps Inc - Casablanca

[QUINNY]

Without listening to either track, are you thinking Hit and Run, Marky?

[markydefad]

Yes Q......HIT AND RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

It seems so obvious to me!!!! :-? :oops: :o

Doesn't anyone else hear it? Bill Motley (Boystown Gang) is credited as the composer of 'Cruisin The Street"--but he "lifted' this catchy hook from "Hit And Run."

"da-da-da-da

da-da-da

cruisin the streets...."

it's all instrumental in the Loleatta Holloway...but it's right in the beginning...then comes back in the long extended instrumental passage.

[Greg Wilson]

Just re-edited an instumental version of 'Cruisin' The Streets' for the Credit To The Edit album I'm doing (out on Tirk during the summer).

BTW thought the lyric was 'hunky guys' not 'honky guys'.

[dvdjamm]

the thing i remember was thinking that the album discharge was actually the soundtrack to a xxx movie called the grease monkeys...there used to be a xxx theater in the castro and i saw the poster for the movie and it looked similar...between that album and the 1st village people album,wow.....

[markydefad]

dvdjamm...

"Discharge" sounds like pus!!! :o :o :P
:P :lol: :oops: :-?
I think it was "Disc Charge"!!!

or maybe "Chancre!!!" :P

I'm sure I saw "Grease Monkeys" someplace...was it at the Nob Hill Cinema on Bush Street?????

[markydefad]

OK, I listened again last night.

I played the cd version of "Cruisin The Streets"..
(from the Greatest Hits)

noticed that the c-word was edited out of that.

On the 12"....the cops get out of the car...

they say: "Up against the wall fags" :evil:

the ho says: "they're not fags, officer"

cops: "You too, ****." :oops:

The last line was missing from the cd version...

Also on the 12" the final spoken line after the music is over: "Stuff that big sausage in me" is sadly gone too!!! :P :lol: :lol:

Also noticed that Bill Motley modified the "Hit and Run" hook to
1-2-3
1-2-3
cruisin the streets....... (now that's different!!!) :roll:

[Videoskooter]

Also on the 12" the final spoken line after the music is over: "Stuff that big sausage in me" is sadly gone too!!! :P :lol: :lol:

No, They had to edit that one after an official complaint by the Food and Health Administration. True fact!

[SandraDee]

Well what's wrong with stuffing a sausage in one's mouth anyway? Isn't that what they're for? :-?

[Discovery]

"I have to confess that to begin with, I hated some of the cuts...like 'Hit And Run,' I really hated it!" Loleatta stated in 1977, then adding 15 years later: "It sounded like the longest song I'd ever heard and I didn't want to sing it. They really had to convince me to sing it. Well, I finally went into the studio and saw this whole orchestra, they gave me the mike, and hey, I was a disco diva!"