Hot Soul Singles & Hot Black Singles

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 crapfromthepast wrote:

"Eugene" got a surprising amount of play in the early days 

of Z100/New York, in the summer of 1983.  Originally 

released on indie Mumbo Records in 1980, picked up by 

Casablanca in 1981, got as high as #105 in Feb 1981.  Co-

written & co-produced by Ace Frehley of Kiss.  More than 

you need to know, but that's what we're for.  :) 

Yep, that's the one - and since unlike me, most of you folks here are such "45 enthusiasts", I'm surprised you didn't add that Casablanca actually issued two different promo 45s for "Eugene", w/ different lengths/versions on them. (I have copies of both, but they're packed away at the moment, so I don't have the particulars. Not sure if there were two different commercial 45s as well, although I do have one of those, too - oh, and also the 12" on Casablanca, but not the original on Mumbo.) ;-) Glad to know there are at least a few other folks here who have and/or remember it - although on a site like this, which obviously caters to people like myself who own such extensive music collections, I'm not too surprised. I never heard it on the radio myself back in the day (lived in SoCal at the time), but I've heard that it also got moderate to extensive airplay in the Boston area in 1980-81, where "Crazy Joe" Renda was originally from...

And BTW, I have yet to find "Eugene" on a legitimate/commercial CD, domestic or import; by chance is anyone here aware of one??? However, I DO have the song on an original Dr. Demento radio show CD, as well as a different/extended version on a collection of KISS-related rarities (again, as cftp noted, due to the Ace Frehley connection), but that one is a bootleg, and likely recorded from vinyl (although it sounds pretty good on that CD, at least to my ears)...