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Written by: Jonathan Richman
Produced by: John Cale
Released: Oct. '76 on Beserkley
Charts: Did not chart

Boston native Richman was obsessed with the Velvet Underground; when he started his own band, he rewrote the Velvets' "Sister Ray" into an ecstatic two-chord tribute to cruising down the highway with the radio on. This 1972 recording (featuring future members of Talking Heads and the Cars) wasn't released for more than three years -- whereupon English punks fell in love with it.

Appears on: The Modern Lovers (Rhino)

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