THE BEAT GOES ON
NEW YORK — The fundamental things apply, as time goes by, like “Sister Ray,” for instance. It had only been out for a couple of years when Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers first recycled it as “Roadrunner” in 1970, for a John Caleproduced album that was so raw Warner Brothers never got around to putting it out.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Twerp King At The Summit
NEW YORK — The fundamental things apply, as time goes by, like “Sister Ray,” for instance. It had only been out for a couple of years when Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers first recycled it as “Roadrunner” in 1970, for a John Caleproduced album that was so raw Warner Brothers never got around to putting it out. But now, six years after the original “Roadrunner” and almost a decade since “Sister Ray,” the woipd’of mouth on the Modern Lovers was such that Richman had not only been signed by the heartefiingly qontrendy Bay Area record company Berserkley, but the original great lost Modern Lovers album was finally released.