Built for Speed

Infobox Album
Name = Built for Speed
Type = studio album
Artist = Stray Cats


Released = June 1982
Recorded = 1981-1982
Genre = Rockabilly
Length = 36:15
Label = EMI America
Producer = Dave Edmunds (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 11), Stray Cats and Hein Hoven (track 2), Stray Cats (tracks 3, 5-6, 8, 10, 12)
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8wavqjmbojja link]
Last album = "Gonna Ball"
(1981)
This album = Built for Speed
(1982)
Next album = "Rant N' Rave With The Stray Cats"
(1983)

"Built for Speed" is the first American album from the rockabilly band Stray Cats. It is perhaps the most successful record for the band, with the videos for songs such as "Rock This Town" and "Stray Cat Strut" reaching MTV regular rotation status.

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Setzer except as indicated.

ide one

# "Rock This Town" (Setzer, Dave Edmunds) – 3:24
# "Built for Speed" – 2:53
# "Rev It Up & Go" – 2:27
# "Stray Cat Strut" – 3:15
# "Little Miss Prissy" – 2:59
# "Rumble in Brighton" (Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom) – 3:11

ide two

#

"Runaway Boys" (Setzer, Phantom)– 2:58
# "Lonely Summer Nights" – 3:16
# "Double Talkin' Baby" (Danny Wolfe) – 3:02
# "You Don't Believe Me" (Setzer, Phantom, Lee Rocker) – 2:54
# "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" (George Motola, Ricky Page) – 2:18
# "Baby Blue Eyes" (Paul Burlison, Johnny Burnette)– 2:47

Note: "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" is often miscredited as having been written by Mike Chapman, who recorded a song of the same name with his band Tangerine Peel. However, Chapman's "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" is a completely different song than the one the Stray Cats recorded; they just happen to share the same title. The Stray Cats' "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" was originally done by Eddie Cochran, and was indeed written by George Motola and Ricky Page (regardless of what the original "Built For Speed" album or other various Stray Cats collections may claim).

Personnel

* Brian Setzer – guitars, lap steel guitar, vocals
* Slim Jim Phantom – drums, vocals
* Lee Rocker – bass, electric bass, vocals

Charts

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