Def Leppard: Rock Of Ages (12″ Promo)

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Here’s a fun one… a 12″, 33-1/3, Promo copy of two of Def Leppard’s great early hit tracks from the album Pyromania.  “Rock of Ages” and “Too Late For Love”.  “Rock of Ages” is the gunter glieben glauchen globen song (which supposedly doesn’t mean a thing) and was sampled by the Offspring on their “Pretty Fly For A White Guy” track.

“Too Late For Love” is also a favorite of mine because the sic-fi-ish opening sounded great on my headphones.

Not much else to say about this particular album.  It has two great tracks and they sound fantastic!  I read somewhere, sometime, that 12″ singles sound better than their LP counterparts because the grooves don’t need to be set so close together.  Fact?  I don’t know.

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Def Leppard: Rock Of Ages (12″ Promo)

1983 – Mercury

Side One

  1. Rock Of Ages

Side Two

  1. Too Late For Love

Paul Lekakis: Boom Boom (12″ Single)

Now here’s an interesting one.  Boom Boom single by Paul Lekakis.  I know exactly where I picked this gem up at.  I was working as a busboy at the Holiday Inn Denver South East in their restaurant/bar Circle in the Square.  I remember them pulling in huge crowds on Friday and Saturday nights in the bar (I was only 16 at the time and worked Saturday nights and Sunday morning brunch).  This was my first exposure to the nightclub crowed.  Anyway, they stopped having a DJ at some point, for what reason I have no idea, and tore down the DJ booth.  They gave the employees a bunch of the records from their collection.  A TON of 12 singles.  I got a few of them including this one and Billy Crystal’s “You Look Marvelous” which will be included here at some point.  Anyway, strange looking dude and strange song as well.

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Paul Lekakis:  Boom Boom (12″ Single)

1986 – Zyx Records

Side One

  1. Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back to My Room)

Side Two

  1. Boom Boom (Instrumental Room)

…and the lyrics if you wanted them???… only because they’re awesome!

Hey babe, I’d like to talk to you.
How’s about coming back to my room,
For a little boom boom.

You keep coming to me
I can dig, you’re dynamite
The way you move
Get in the groove
You’re driving me crazy
Crazy for you

*Step in time and move your feet
It’s time for us to boom boom
You can come get close to me
And feel the burning fire
All the time you’ve got the beat
It’s time for us boom boom
Can’t you see this spark in me
And feel my strong desire

**Boom boom boom
Let’s go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Boom boom boom
Let’s go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right

To be or not to be
Don’t you know I’d like a bite
Get to love you
Closer to you
You’re driving me crazy
Crazy for you

*Repeat

**Repeat (x4)