Messin' with the Boys

Messin' with the Boys
Studio album by Cherie & Marie Currie
Released	1980 (re-released in 1997)
Recorded	1979, 1980
Genre	rock, hard rock
Length	41:11
Label	Capitol (Re-released by Renaissance Records)
Producer	Jai Winding
Cherie & Marie Currie chronology
Beauty's Only Skin Deep (Cherie Currie) (1978) Messin' with the Boys Young and Wild (Cherie & Marie Currie) (1998)

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Messin' with the Boys is the second post-Runaways album by Cherie Currie, released in 1980^[2][3] For this album Currie worked with her identical twin sister, Marie Currie.^[4][5] Their band was called Cherie and Marie Currie. Marie was a guest vocalist on Cherie's first album,^[6] so Marie went on tour with Cherie to support her first album, Beauty's Only Skin Deep. When Marie would join Cherie on stage to sing the encores the audience would go wild.^[7] So Cherie ran with the idea of two blonds are better than one.^[8] The idea paid off because Messin' with the Boys received more radio play than Beauty's Only Skin Deep, and their song "Since You Been Gone" made it to 95 on US charts.^[9] The single "This Time" and the album Messin' with the Boys made the top 200 on U.S. charts. This makes Messin' with the Boys Cherie Currie's most successful album. "I Just Love the Feeling" originally surfaced on the 1974 album, "S.S. Fools" by the group of the same name. Cherie duetted with that group's lead singer, Bobby Kimball, and wrote the additional lyrics in the second verse.

Messin' with the Boys was originally released by Capitol Records in 1980,^[10] but Messin' with the Boys was re-released on Renaissance Records in 1997.^[11] The twins recorded seven new bonus tracks for Messin' with the Boys 1997 release. Tracks 11 through 17 are the 1997 bonus tracks. One of the bonus tracks was "Cherry Bomb", a song Cherie recorded with the Runaways. When Cherie was in the Runaways it was regarded as their signature song.

In 1988 singer, Tone Norum, covered Cherie and Marie Currie's song "This Time". She named the album after the song she covered.^[12]

Marie Currie's quotes

When Brad Hamlin asked Marie Currie "Tell us how Messin' with the Boys came about." Marie said "That's a very long story, but I still to this day believe it is one of the best albums we could've made. We had the best musicians, songwriters, and a tremendous amount of support. I look back at recording that album with a smile."^[13]

Track listing

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1. "Messin' with the Boys" (Joey Brasler, M. Ruth) – 3:47
2. "Since You Been Gone" (Russ Ballard) – 3:41
3. "I Just Love the Feeling" (Cherie Currie, Bobby Kimball) – 4:32
4. "All I Want" (John Batdorf, Sue Sheridan) – 3:40
5. "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" (Eric Carmen) – 5:01
6. "Elaine" (David Paich) – 3:20
7. "This Time" (Billy Bizeau) – 6:08
8. "Wishing Well" (John Bundrick, Simon Kirke, Paul Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, Tetsu Yamauchi) – 3:27
9. "Secrets" (Cherie Currie, Michelle Winding) – 2:26
10. "We're Through" (Joey Brasler) – 5:13
11. "Kamakazee Lover" (J. Brasler, S. Crane) - 3:33 (1997 Bonus track)
12. "I Surrender" (Russ Ballard) - 3:48 (1997 Bonus track)
13. "Prisoner" (D. Paich, D. Williams) - 3:29 (1997 Bonus track)
14. "You're a Baby" (J. Brasler, B. Berkowitz) - 3:34 (1997 Bonus track)
15. "Tough Break" (S. Dunscombe-Lynch, L. Whitman) - 3:50 (1997 Bonus track)
16. "Always the Last to Know" (J. Brasler, Cherie Currie) - 3:09 (1997 Bonus track)
17. "Cherry Bomb" (Joan Jett, Kim Fowley) - 2:13 (1997 Bonus track)

Discography

Personnel

• Cherie Currie - vocals
• Marie Currie - vocals
• Steve Lukather - guitar
• Waddy Wachtel - guitar
• Joey Brasler - guitar
• Mike Porcaro - bass guitar
• Mike Baird - drums
• Jai Winding - synthesizer, keyboards
• Trevor Veitch - acoustic guitar on "Since You've Been Gone"
• John Pierce - bass guitar on "We're Through"
• Mike Landau - guitar on "We're Through"
• Bobby Kimball - male lead vocal on "I Just Love the Feeling"
• Bill Champlin, Tom Kelly, Bobby Kimball, Keith Landry, Tommy Funderburk, Tom Werman - backing vocals

Production

• Producer: Jai Winding
• Assistant producer: Michele Winding

References