Motley Crue is
ok but give me the original of this great tune any day...
Brownsville Station!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z3Bmjoiidc
Song Facts:
Producer Doug Morris (also the owner of Big Tree Records) hated the song - he refused to release it as a 45 until a Portland, Maine, FM station started to play it off an LP. Afterwards, requests for the song streamed into the record company - it had
over 100,000 orders for the single before Morris changed his mind and released it.
Mötley Crüe covered this song in 1985... It was their first US Top 40, hitting #16.
We list the title as it appeared on the album and single: "Boy's Room." This is bad grammar - "Boys' Room" or "Boys Room" would be correct, unless you were indicating a room that belonged to one particular boy.
Like the digitally altered
Star Wars releases,
this apostrophe has been excised from the title in most listings of the song just like Greedo shoots at Han Solo. The Mötley Crüe version removed the apostrophe - they might be down with sneaking cigarettes at school, but not with misplaced punctuation.
So, If you see a 45 with the old album cover "Boy's" instead of "Boys'", at a garage sale, buy it!
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1098