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| WBAB Homegrown Album | ||
|---|---|---|
| Compilation album | ||
| Released | 1981 | |
| Genre | Album Oriented Rock, Pop, Progressive rock, Heavy Metal, | |
| Label | Broken/The Radio Company | |
WBAB Homegrown Album is the first compilation album recorded for WBAB-FM in Babylon, New York. The album was manufactured in 1981 at PRI Record Pressing, Wyandanch, New York. It was designed to commemorate some of the station's best local acts and performances culled from the station's "Homegrown Hour" program, a show dedicated to promoting bands based on, or somehow tied to Long Island, New York.
The album contains songs by The Good Rats, Twisted Sister, and Zebra, among others, and was and was partially attributed to the success of these bands. The version of Zebra's first hit "Who's Behind the Door?," is an earlier version not found on their own 1983 debut album. It also contains songs written by some of the station's disc jockeys, as well as an extended version of the station's jingle. One of the more interesting tracks was Random Speed's "Radio Active Baby Food", a novelty song paritally inspired by the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, and the Long Island Lighting Company's controversially proposed Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant.
Three years later, the station released a second album called "Son of Homegrown," a.k.a. "Homegrown: The Next Generation" which was pressed on red vinyl. Neither this album, nor the next one were ever re-relased on CD.
[edit] Tracks
Side One
- Glad to Have You Back (Beethoven) - Good Rats
- Dream Away - Thrills
- Action/Fraction - The Lines
- Bad Boys of Rock 'n Roll - Twisted Sister
- Suicide - Swift Kick
- Barbed Wire - Fanatics
Side Two
- Who's Behind the Door? - Zebra
- Undercover Lover - Broken Arrow
- Landslide - Llama
- Love on a Shelf - Stanton Anderson Band
- Radio Active Baby Food - Random Speed
- The WBAB Bong Island Blues - Marc Coppola & Al Vertucci
- Show the World You Love Rock 'n Roll - Joe Costanzo
[edit] Failed tracks
Besides Long Island-based musicians, the album also boasted a failed attempt to gain an unorthodox series of tracks. Apparently, they consisted of a cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley" by The Osmonds, "Love Is All Around" (The Theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), by Judas Priest, a conver of The Doors song "Roadhouse Blues" by Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jeremy Bendover" by Emerson, Lake & Curley, "Can't You See the Freebird, Jessica?" by The Marshall Skynyrd Band(evidently a duet between members of the Marshall Tucker Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd), and an untitled Medley that was supposedly recorded live at Hammerheads in 1980 by The Beatles.
