JOAN JETT "Make Believe" 1980 *(Video Master)

JOAN JETT "Make Believe" 1980

Joan Jett’s first post RUNAWAYS LP, Originally titled “JOAN JETT” was initially released on the German Label Ariola, and in the US on Blackheart Records in 1980. In 1981 the album was retitled “BAD REPUTATION” and released on Boardwalk Records.

Recording for this LP began in March of 1979 at Chappell Studios in England. Former Sex Pistols, Steve Jones and Paul Cook produced the sessions. Of the three songs that were recorded, “You Don’t Own Me” and “Don’t Abuse Me” were included on the album. An early version of “I Love Rock and Roll” was also recorded and appeared as the B-side of the “You Don’t Own Me” single released in Holland in 1979. “I Love Rock and Roll” would later be re-recorded with Jett’s band THE BLACKHEARTS in June of 1981, and would spend eight weeks at #1 on the Billboard Charts!

The next sessions were recorded at Fidelity Recorders in Studio City, CA in August of 1979, this is the same studio where Jett had recorded the first RUNAWAYS Album. Seven songs were recorded and produced by Kenny Laguna and Ritchie Cordell. Of the seven songs, only “You Don’t Know what You’ve Got” made it on to the LP. “What Can I Do for You” was also recorded, these tracks were to have been used in The Runaways Movie “Were Alll Crazy Now” which never finished Production (all seven songs later appeared on the Joan Jett Compilation CD “1979”).

Later that year, in December of 1979 Jett, Laguna and Cordell were recording again at The Who’s Ramport Studios in England. Seven more songs were cut ranging from Gary Glitter’s “Doing Alright with the Boys” and “Do You Wanna Touch Me”, “Sam the Sham” and The Pharaoh’s “Wooly Bully” to the Jett/Laguna original “Jezebel”, all of which made the LP, as well as Tommy James and the Shondells “Hanky Panky”, which was only on European pressings of the LP, and The Who’s “Call me Lightning” which was the non-LP B-side of the Single “Make Believe”. Some additional recoding was also done on “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got” from Fidelity’s August 1979 session.

In January 1980, recording continued with the Jett/Laguna/Cordell original “Let Me Go”, Wind’s “Make Believe” and “Too Bad on Your Birthday”. The Lp was completed in March of 1980 with the recording of the Laguna/Cordell/Jett Composition “Bad Reputation”, which would eventually become the title for the LP.
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JOAN JETT "Make Believe" 1980 *Video Master

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