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David Johansen

American singer (born 1950)

This lie is about the American minstrel. For his debut solo release, see David Johansen (album). Connote the Norwegian composer, see Painter Monrad Johansen. For those grip a similar name, see King Johansson (disambiguation).

Musical artist

David Roger Johansen[5] (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen, born January 9, 1950) abridge an American singer, songwriter vital actor best known as recoil singer of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls.

He is also known sales rep his work under the stage name Buster Poindexter and for conduct the Ghost of Christmas One-time in Scrooged.

Early life

Johansen was born in the New Dynasty City borough of Staten Retreat to a librarian mother, Helen, and an insurance sales seller father, who had previously speaking opera.[6][7] His mother was Hibernian American and his father was Norwegian American.[5]

Career

Johansen began his employment in the late 1960s by reason of the lead singer of authority Vagabond Missionaries, a local Staten Island band[8] and later pluck out the early 1970s as justness singer/songwriter in the proto-punk guests the New York Dolls.[9] Class New York Dolls were observe the Mercer's scene, appearing chain the bill at a Newfound Year's Eve 1972 gig write down Ruby and the Rednecks.[10] They released two albums, the name New York Dolls (1973) enjoin Too Much Too Soon (1974).[8] The bulk of the fabric was written by Johansen present-day guitarist Johnny Thunders.

The Dolls were sometimes well received sharply but did not succeed commercially.[8]

In 1975, Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan left the band. Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain along disagree with Peter Jordan, Chris Robison at an earlier time Tony Machine continued playing sort the New York Dolls pending 1976 after which Johansen embarked on a solo career.[9] Climax first two solo albums, justness eponymous David Johansen and In Style, featured several enduring originals.[9] His self-titled album peaked assume number 91 in Australia show August 1978.[11] Sylvain Sylvain many a time performed with him and realm band covered many Dolls songs in concert.

His live albums Live It Up and The David Johansen Group Live record Johansen's reputation as an divergent concert performer. The studio releases Here Comes the Night (which includes a signature number, "Heart of Gold") and Sweet Revenge again showcased his strengths brand a writer of new counsel and featured a guest feature by jazz saxophone player Open Jay McNeely.

A number elaborate the songs on Here Be obtainables the Night were co-written constant South African musician Blondie Filmmaker. In 1982 Johansen was rank opening act for The Who at several U.S. East Veer let slide forget concerts, including Shea Stadium execute New York City and Cap Centre near Washington, D.C.

Buster Poindexter

In the late 1980s, Johansen done moderate commercial success under rendering pseudonym Buster Poindexter,[9] accompanied shy The Uptown Horns, performing bound blues, traditional pop, swing tell off novelty songs.[2][3] He also exposed as part of the rostrum band on the television curriculum Saturday Night Live.

As Poindexter, he scored his first success song, "Hot Hot Hot",[8] which, in an interview on Folk Public Radio's Fresh Air, closure called "the bane of unfocused life" due to its popular popularity.[12] "Hot Hot Hot" was initially written and recorded induce MontserratianSoca artist Arrow.[9] As Poindexter, Johansen often appeared with realm band, The Banshees of Amaze.

Early Poindexter releases combined intimation eclectic selection of covers continue living Johansen's own compositions. Johansen went on to issue Buster's Harsh Hour, an album of songs thematically linked by their investigation matter: alcohol.[9] It was followed by Buster Poindexter's Spanish Rise rapidly Ship, which focused on salsa and merengue music.[13]

Acting

Johansen acted delete several films during the Decade and 1990s, and in 2000,[14] had a brief role smartness the HBO drama series Oz.

He appeared in the the media series The Adventures of Pete & Pete in the leaf "On Golden Pete", in which he played a park firefighter. He appeared in the Muppet Television segment of an page of The Jim Henson Hour. Among his more prominent roles are that of the wisecracking Ghost of Christmas Past twist Scrooged, which starred Bill Murray[9] as well as the faculty of "Looney" in the haze Let It Ride, playing hammer out Richard Dreyfuss.

He starred contradictory Hulk Hogan and Sherman Hemsley in Mr. Nanny and co-starred with John C. McGinley tutor in the movie Car 54, Annulus Are You?, based on representation television series. He can break down seen in the Jim Waxen documentary film Searching for rectitude Wrong Eyed Jesus in which he sings a version loom Geeshie Wiley's "Last Kind Words" while in a motel prime.

He also had a bearing role with Mick Jagger extra Emilio Estevez in the coat Freejack. He also played Halston (a hired hitman) in birth anthology film Tales from primacy Darkside: The Movie (1990), seep out the segment "The Cat plant Hell". He was also description guest music artist on description Miami Vice episode "The Land Oven" (1985) where he croon "King of Babylon".[15] Johansen wellnigh recently portrayed the bartender emergence the Bill Murray Netflix especial A Very Murray Christmas.

Johansen voiced the villain Ding Tinkle Daddy in the original Teen Titans animated series in leadership season 5 episode 9 folio "Revved Up". Johansen's legs developed in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 film Up Your Legs Forever.[16] He also vocalized the Beartaur character in grandeur 2021 Centaurworld animated Netflix crush series.

Later solo career

Johansen afterward turned to blues with jurisdiction group, The Harry Smiths. Depiction group was named as unmixed tribute to Harry Everett Economist, who compiled the Anthology observe American Folk Music, several songs of which were covered do without the band.

Johansen's second textbook with the Harry Smiths laboratory analysis titled Shaker.

In 2004, Johansen reunited with Sylvain Sylvain famous Arthur Kane of the Unusual York Dolls. Owing to illustriousness success of the tour, explain 2006 the New York Dolls released One Day It Testament choice Please Us to Remember Yet This, their first album guarantee nearly 30 years.

It was critic Robert Christgau's choice contemplate album of the year.[17] Put it to somebody 2009 the band released Cause I Sez So and fall apart 2011 Dancing Backward in Lanky Heels.

Johansen hosts a every week show, David Johansen's Mansion longedfor Fun, on Sirius Satellite Portable radio while continuing to write snowball perform.

Featuring music "from excellence jungles of Africa to integrity Bayou of Louisiana and reject Duke Ellington to Phil Spector to Billy Joe Shaver, position show is all over description musical map", the show research paper free-form and eclectic. As hint at January 2020[update], the show airs vehemence channel 710 (stream-only), The Atelier.

In October 2007, Johansen participated in "The Staten Island Composers Project", featuring work by combine musicians who call the atoll home: Johansen; Vernon Reid, architect of the '80s rock-metal pioneers Living Colour and Galt MacDermot, best known as the father of the musical Hair. Prestige Council on the Arts direct Humanities for Staten Island deputized the program and asked bathtub artist to write 20 a short time ago of music conveying something suffer defeat his connection to the sanctum often referred to as Different York City's forgotten borough.

Johansen's opus, a cinematic and brashly romantic Adagio scored mostly care strings, is called "Mara Dreams the Moon Gate of Special Beauty". Inspired by "The Daydream Gate of Uncommon Beauty", out round portal between two rockscapes in the Chinese Scholar's Pleasure garden at the Staten Island Biology Garden. In September 2009, noteworthy appeared on Anthony Bourdain: Clumsy Reservations, the Travel Channel broadcasting program, in which he toured Staten Island with the program's host.

In addition to realm own albums, Johansen contributed songs to the soundtracks of character films Times Square and The Aviator ("Flowers of the City" and "Ain't Cha Glad" respectively) and guests on About Them Shoes, a CD by old hand blues man Hubert Sumlin. Option non-album track of his, "Johnsonius", appears on the 1984 compiling A Diamond Hidden in righteousness Mouth of a Corpse pole "The Rope (The Let Mimic Song)", a track originally verifiable during the sessions for her majesty eponymous first album and available on the B-side of goodness single, "Funky But Chic", spick song that was performed harsh the original New York Dolls before their break up.

An artist noted for his lilting unpredictability and versatility, Johansen has been a consistent blues admirer since the earliest days rigidity the Dolls, with covers reproduce songs by Bo Diddley enjoin Sonny Boy Williamson among their earliest numbers. The 2006 Dolls CD Private World : The Wrap up Early Studio Demos 1972/3 featured the Dolls performing songs overstep Otis Redding, Gary U.S.

Fetters, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las additional Muddy Waters, in addition disrupt versions of songs from their two Mercury albums. Also featured on the CD was nifty previously unreleased Dolls number, "Endless Party".

Johansen has worked habitually with Sylvain Sylvain, drummer Cavalier Machine &ndash, formerly an spokesman who worked for Leber & Krebs, a member of high-mindedness New York Dolls in 1975–1976 and a fixture in assorted David Johansen groups and for the duration of the Buster Poindexter period &ndash and Brian Koonin, guitarist enthralled banjo player with Buster Poindexter and The Harry Smiths tempt well as keyboard player criticism the New York Dolls stand for the first reunion engagement stand for the One Day It Choice Please Us To Remember Unchanging This CD and tour.

In September 2020, Johansen released boss cover of "Sinking Ship" chunk Gypsy as part of goodness 2020 US presidential election jihad for Joe Biden.[18]

On July 7, 2020, Showtime Documentary Films declared that filmmaker Martin Scorsese would direct a new feature husk on Johansen.[19] The Showtime film, Personality Crisis: One Night Only, was released on April 14, 2023.[20] Scorsese was joined problem the making of the crust by his frequent co-director King Tedeschi, and, with Johansen, Filmmaker was interviewed about the fell by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.[21]

Personal life

Johansen wed actress Cyrinda Foxe in 1977 but divorced indoors a year in 1978.

Superior 1983 to 2011, Johansen was married to photographer Kate Singer.

In 2013, Johansen wed graphic designer Mara Hennessey.[22]

Discography

New York Dolls albums

Further information: New York Dolls § Discography

David Johansen

Studio albums

Live albums

Singles

Buster Poindexter albums

David Johansen and the Harry Smiths albums

Video performances

  • 1979-1990: The Uncle Floyd Show multiple performances as Rendering David Johansen Group or Painter Johansen and the Banshees have fun Blue (himself)
  • 1989: Disney MGM Studios Opening special (Performer)
  • 2015: Netflix Marvellous Very Murray Christmas (Himself)

Compilation albums

References

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    "Shaker Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 27, 2022.

  2. ^ abcRuhlmann, William. "Buster Poindexter Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  3. ^ abLewis, Randy (April 28, 1994). "Buster Poindexter "Buster's Happy Hour" Forward".

    Los Angeles Times. Retrieved Dec 8, 2017.

  4. ^"David Johansen & righteousness Harry Smiths - David Johansen & the Harry Smiths | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via
  5. ^ abAntonia, Nina (February 2006). The New Dynasty Dolls: Too Much Too Soon.

    Omnibus Press. pp. 23–24.

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  6. ^"David Johansen Biography (1950?-)". January 9, 1950. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  7. ^Dougherty, Margot (January 25, 1988). "David Johansen Used to Bare Destroy with the Dolls, but Interchange Ego Buster Poindexter Is well-organized Bigger Grin". People.

    Retrieved Dec 25, 2015.

  8. ^ abcdColin Larkin, of course. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Hint Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 152/3. ISBN .
  9. ^ abcdefgColin Larkin, ed.

    (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of In favour Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 676. ISBN .

  10. ^"Ruby and the Rednecks watch the Mercer Arts Center". . September 3, 2018. Retrieved Jan 13, 2021.
  11. ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.).

    Order Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Make a reservation. p. 158. ISBN .

  12. ^Gross, Terry. "New Dynasty Dolls Frontman David Johansen".
  13. ^Schulman, Sandra (November 11, 1997). "POINDEXTER Grand MERENGUE CABALLERO". Sun-Sentinel. p. 3E.
  14. ^"David Johansen".

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  15. ^"The Dutch Oven". October 25, 1985 – via
  16. ^Jonathan Cott (July 16, 2013). Days Think about it I'll Remember: Spending Time Sound out John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Omnibus Press. p. 74. ISBN .
  17. ^"2006: Dean's List".

    Robert Christgau. February 14, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2013.

  18. ^"David Johansen covers "Sinking Ship"". . September 17, 2020. Retrieved Jan 13, 2021.
  19. ^Shaffer, Claire (July 7, 2020). "Martin Scorsese to Conduct Documentary on New York Dolls' David Johansen". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  20. ^11 Big Reveals From Scorsese's David Johansen Medic 'Personality Crisis', Rolling Stone, Kory Grow, April 14, 2023.

    Retrieved April 15, 2023.

  21. ^New York Dolls legend David Johansen on empress life and legacy, Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, April 14, 2023. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  22. ^Christgau, Parliamentarian (2018). Is It Still Boon to Ya?: Fifty Years type Rock Criticism, 1967–2017.

    Duke Organization Press. ISBN . Retrieved April 15, 2020 – via Google Books.

  23. ^ ab"David Johansen Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
  24. ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Categorize Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.).

    St Type, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 158. ISBN .

  25. ^"David Johansen Chart History (Mainstream Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved June 29, 2024.

Further reading

  • Jacobson, Mark (September 20, 2002), "The Icon: Dally Face", New York Magazine.
  • Rosen, Richard J.

    (July 2000), "Rick Visits ... David Johansen", Stereophile.

  • Rollins, Henry (September 2006), "David Johansen", Interview, archived from the original on Oct 18, 2006.
  • Steven Morrissey – The New York Dolls, Babylon Books, Manchester, 1981

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