{"product_id":"brownsville-station-yeah-5","title":"Brownsville Station - Yeah! [3]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brownsville Station - Yeah!\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear\/Genre\/Sub-Genre\/City:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1973, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock, Ann Arbor, Michigan 10\/26\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMatrix #:\u003c\/strong\u003e BT 2102 (Big Tree, US, Bell distributed orange label); runout not legible in photo\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e EX (LM) | \u003cstrong\u003eMembers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cub K (48' - 00'), Mike L (N\/A), Henry W (N\/A) | \u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Doug Morris, Eric Stevens\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCultural Facts:\u003c\/strong\u003e      [3]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBorn Michael Uszniewicz:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cub Koda was born Michael John Uszniewicz in Detroit, and in 1957 his father George changed the family name to Koda, his mother's maiden name. He was already playing drums at five, and in high school in Manchester, Michigan his band the Del-Tinos put out a cover of Roy Orbison's Go Go Go in 1963, six years before he started Brownsville Station in Ann Arbor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fake Oldies Band:\u003c\/strong\u003e In the mid 1970s Koda and the Brownsville Station road crew invented a deliberately terrible oldies act called King Uszniewicz and His Uszniewicztones and pressed a real 45 of Surfin' School. The band quietly planted copies in Midwest thrift stores while on tour so record collectors would think they had found a lost group. Norton Records later issued four whole albums of it, each with a photo of Koda's father George on the cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA Future Label Boss Produced It:\u003c\/strong\u003e This album was produced by Doug Morris, who was running Big Tree Records at the time and later became chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group and then Sony Music. Smokin' in the Boy's Room, written by Koda and Mike Lutz, went to No. 3, sold over two million copies, and became a hit all over again for Motley Crue in 1985. Koda later wrote the Vinyl Junkie column for Goldmine and co-wrote the All Music Guide to the Blues.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n","brand":"Power Plant Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68067674357947,"sku":null,"price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0095\/4204\/1658\/files\/9ucnfim8ubfhoeyqh112y7f3a.jpg?v=1793478427","url":"https:\/\/powerplantrecords.com\/products\/brownsville-station-yeah-5","provider":"Power Plant Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}