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Encyclopedia > Built for Speed
 Name = Built For Speed | Type = Album | Artist = Stray Cats | Released = 1982 | Genre = Rockabilly | Label = EMI America | Producer = Dave Edmunds | 

Built For Speed is the first American album from the rockabilly band Stray Cats. This is perhaps the most successful record for the band, with songs such as "Rock This Town," "Stray Cat Strut" reaching MTV status. An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Stray Cats was formed by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer in the Long Island town of Massapequa, NY, in 1979. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Rockabilly is one of the component parts of rock and roll. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... Dave Edmunds (born April 15, 1944) came out of Cardiff, Wales in the late 1960s, fronting a band called Love Sculpture who were playing blues and rocked up classical pieces. ... Rockabilly is one of the component parts of rock and roll. ... Stray Cats was formed by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer in the Long Island town of Massapequa, NY, in 1979. ... MTV (acronym for Music Television) is a cable television network which was originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music. ...


Track listing

  1. "Rock This Town"
  2. "Built For Speed"
  3. "Rev It Up & Go"
  4. "Stray Cat Strut"
  5. "Little Miss Prissy"
  6. "Rumble in Brighton"
  7. "Runaway Boys"
  8. "Lonely Summer Nights"
  9. "Double Talkin' Baby"
  10. "You Don't Beleive Me"
  11. "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie"
  12. "Baby Blue Eyes"

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She is a double-ended paddle-wheel vessel; length 16o ft., beam 33 ft. 6 in., depth to ft., draught 5 ft. 6 in., speed 7 knots.
Smith built a steam yacht, and although the building of such yachts was discouraged by the clubs, he continued to build, and produced between 1825 and 1851 nine steam yachts of various sizes; one built in 1844 had a screw propeller, the others were fitted with paddle wheels.
Winchester," built in 1909, is of a similar type; she is 165 ft. long, 15 ft. 6 in.
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