Hoy-Hoy!

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Hoy-Hoy!
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Compilation album by
Little Feat
ReleasedJuly 1981
Recorded1969–1981
Length69:34
Label Warner Bros.
Producer
Little Feat chronology
Down on the Farm
(1979)		Hoy-Hoy!
(1981)		 Let It Roll
(1988)
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Hoy-Hoy! is a Little Feat collection released in 1981 two years after the band's break-up following the death of founder Lowell George. Originally released as a double album and later a single CD, it contains alternate versions and live recordings of many Feat tracks as well as some previously unreleased material. The cover is illustrated by Neon Park. [3]

Contents

The previously unreleased tracks are as follows:

Three of the live numbers ("Skin It Back", "Red Streamliner" and "Teenage Nervous Breakdown") were recorded in August 1977 at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington DC for the live Waiting For Columbus album. These were later included on the 2002 deluxe edition of that album. The performance of "Red Streamliner" features Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers on backing vocals. "The Fan" was recorded live at Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, New York on September 19, 1974.

Track listing

  1. "Rocket in My Pocket" (acoustic demo) (Lowell George) – 0:51
  2. "Rock 'n' Roll Doctor" (alternate version) (George, Fred Martin) – 3:12
  3. "Skin it Back" (live from Lisner Auditorium) (Paul Barrère) – 4:42
  4. "Easy to Slip" (original Sailin' Shoes version) (George) – 3:20
  5. "Red Streamliner" (live from Lisner Auditorium) (Bill Payne, Fran Tate) – 4:59
  6. "Lonesome Whistle" (Lowell George demo) (Hank Williams, Jimmie H. Davis) – 3:29
  7. "Front Page News" (original melody) (Payne, George) – 4:50
  8. "The Fan" (1974 live version) (Payne, George) – 6:15
  9. "Forty-Four Blues" (original first album version) (Chester Burnett) – 3:17
  10. "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" (original 1969 demo) (George) – 1:26
  11. "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" (live from Lisner Auditorium) (George) – 4:04
  12. "Framed" (Lowell George and The Factory) (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:44
  13. "Strawberry Flats" (original first album version) (Payne, George) – 2:21
  14. "Gringo" (Payne) – 6:32
  15. "Over the Edge" (Barrère) – 4:19
  16. "Two Trains" (1973 live version) (George) – 3:20
  17. "China White" (George) – 3:14
  18. "All That You Dream" (from Lowell George Tribute Concert, featuring Linda Ronstadt) (Barrère, Payne) – 4:48
  19. "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" (1976 live extract) (Barrère, George, Martin) – 1:51

Charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [4] 99
US Billboard 200 [5] 39

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References

  1. ↑ Little Feat – Hoy-Hoy!: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  2. ↑ Pareles, Jon. "Little Feat: Hoy-Hoy! : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "Neon Park".
  4. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 178. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  5. ↑ "Little Feat Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
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