Paper Sleeve =VG storage wear Vinyl =VG may have storage marks but is probably unplayed For promotion only (see photo)
Tracklist
A Written On The Subway Wall/Little Star (with Paul Simon)
B Tower Of Love
I am on Facebook with Dion He posted this about this track "WRITTEN ON A SUBWAY WALL" 1990
YOU CAN EASILY FIND JOAN JETT, LOU REED, PAUL SIMON... I BELIEVE WE FILMED THIS VIDEO IN THE 42nd STREET SUBWAY STATION, with two of NEW YORK'S FINEST.The guitarist is Dave Edmunds. The drummer on this album was TERRY WILLIAMS who was Dire Strait's drummer in the 80's.THE GREAT "PHIL CHEN" on bass.... and "CHUCK LEAVELL, "ROLLING STONES KEYBOARDIST.
Rolling Stone review says " the other outright triumph is “Written on the Subway Wall/Little Star,” a reportorial reminiscence of the past (“Basement lights and gangway fights/Hydrants flooding August nights”) that’s as musically taut as anything Dire Straits came up with before their arena days. Halfway through the song, Paul Simon enters to sing a wistful verse of the Elegants’ 1958 hit “Little Star,” to which Dion later adds, “You can’t go back/No, you can’t go back.” Like that exchange, Yo Frankie walks a fine line between past and present and reveals that despite the usual obstacles, Dion DiMucci is still capable of wandering with the best of them."
Dion was born to an Italian-American family in the Bronx, New York.[3] As a child, he accompanied his father, Pasquale DiMucci, a vaudeville entertainer, on tour, and developed a love of country music – particularly the work of Hank Williams. He also developed a fondness for the blues and doo-wop musicians he heard performing in local bars and on the radio. His singing was honed on the street corners and local clubs of the Bronx, where he and other neighborhood singers created a cappella riffs. In early 1957, he auditioned for Bob and Gene Schwartz for their short-lived Mohawk Records label. They asked Dion to sing a song which had been arranged by Hugo Montenegro and recorded featuring Vic Damone doing vocals. At first Dion refused, stating the song would sound like something his old fashioned parents would listen to, but the Schwartzes convinced him to give it a try. The backing vocals were by a group called "The Timberlanes", whom Dion had never met.[4] The resulting single, "The Chosen Few," was released under the name Dion and the Timberlanes, and became a minor regional hit. Dion himself stated in 2019 during an interview at "Crashing the Party" (a Radio Show related to Norton Records, Brooklyn, New York) that "The Chosen Few" hit the Top Ten locally in Boston and enabled him to perform this song on "American Bandstand" where the kids at the show started screaming during his performance, which gave him his first impression of being a record star. Writing about this experience later, in his autobiography, The Wanderer, Dion said that he had never met the Timberlanes and didn't even know who they were. "The vocal group was so white bread, I went back to my neighborhood and I recruited a bunch of guys – three guys – and we called ourselves Dion and the Belmonts