Tony Kosinec - Bad Girl Songs -1970

Track list:

1. The World Still

2. I Use Her

3. Bad Girls

4. Come and Go

5. Medley: It's Raining/Car, Car, Car

6. '48 Desoto

7. Gemini at Pains

8. Me and My Friends

9. Dinner Time

10. Wheatfield

11. The Sun Wants Me to Love You

12. My Cat Ain't Comin' Back

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This is the second and final album singer-songwriter Tony Kosinec released on Columbia Records. He'd put out more, but they'd be on different labels and in the future.

From what I can gather, Kosinec was a New York-based musician and judging from his music, he was sort of a proto-Billy Joel or more lightweight James Taylor. As with Taylor, Peter Asher produced this album.

However, unlike with Taylor, the album didn't yield any hits. The jaunty, old-timey "48 DeSoto" was the single, but it didn't chart despite its Beach Boys-inspired chorus. Still, like a lot of the tunes here, it's pretty catchy.

This album was reissued briefly on CD in Japan in 1995, but is now out-of-print. Kosinec seems to have gotten into scoring works for film and television later on.