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The lyrics describe a prisoner who escapes over a wall while weighed down with a ball and chain.He is pursued by a sheriff with hounds. Joey Small's lover, Mary Jane, had sent him a file baked inside a cake; the song ends with the sheriff going to Mary Jane's house — what happens next is left ambiguous.
Despite these representations, the tracks were actually recorded by studio musicians with lead vocals by Ohio Express lead vocalist Joey Levine. Unlike the first album, this was more of a straightforward studio album without the "concept" theme. It yielded the Top 25 hit "Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)", which also became a Top 20 British hit.
Levine sang lead vocals on several Top 40 singles including "Run Run Run" by The Third Rail (1966), "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (co-written with Artie Resnick), and three others by The Ohio Express (1968–1969), "Quick Joey Small" by Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus (1968), and the record that best showcased his rapid speech delivery, "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion (1974).
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... "Quick Joey Small" (Arthur Resnick, Joey Levine) Side B "You're a Bore"
"Run Joey Run" was released in the late summer of 1975, and by October the song had peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It would be Geddes' only Top 10 hit; his only other hit, "The Last Game of the Season (A Blind Man in the Bleachers)" would peak at No. 18 on the Billboard [Hot 100] in December 1975 [4] and No. 23 in Cashbox (December 6, 1975).
Resnick and Levine established a songwriting and producing partnership as part of the Super K Productions bubblegum pop empire set up by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz, writing hit songs for the Ohio Express ("Yummy Yummy Yummy", "Chewy Chewy", and "Mercy"), and the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus ("Quick Joey Small").
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Kenan Draughorne of HipHopDX gave the album a 4.2 out of 5, calling it "an impressive step forward, instantly captivating with undeniable replay value." [8] Sheldon Pearce of Pitchfork gave the album an 8.3 out of 10, saying: "These are songs that refuse to be beholden to what came before, songs that understand and even cherish their connections to music of the past but have entirely different ...