All Night Workers "Don't Put Your Eggs In One Basket" 7" LOU REED JOHN CALE
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Lou Reed completists should check out this rare 45 rpm single by the group All Night Workers! After graduating from Syracuse University Lou Reed was hired by Pickwick Records to join their pop songwriting staff. This Long Island City record label churned out highly commercial, often camp pastiches of whatever pop style was currently the rage: surf, doo-wop, songs about motorcycles, automobiles, etc. Pickwick was loosely modeled on the mainstream Brill Building-pop ruling the airwaves at the time. During his brief stint at Pickwick, Reed was to have his first collaboration with future VU songwriting partner John Cale. Pickwick recruited Cale, along with select others, to form a touring band. "Don't Put Your Eggs In One Basket" b/w "Why Don't You Smile Now" co-written by Cale and Reed, and recorded under the name The All-Night Workers, first appeared as a single in early 1965.
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