As I'm staying in for my birthday today, here are a few places where it might be good to be, if only they were real.
SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE is a Lieber & Stoller song recorded by The Robins, two of whom joined The Coasters, which L&S tried to say was more or less a name-change... It resembles their song 'Young Blood', in that the innocent but romantically aroused protagonist meets a threatening deep-voiced character during the middle 8. Bobby Nunn was (I think) the bass singer who crescendos in his profoundly menacing register, leading the tenor to vow that he'll eat his chilli beans elsewhere in future.
DANNY'S ALL-STAR JOINT sounds like the best club ever. After a bowl of beans at Smokey Joe's, avoiding any advances from the owner's lady, I'd head over here.
MEET ME AT MARY'S PLACE is Sam Cooke at his swingingest. In real life I'd probably be ready for bed after a bottle of wine and the second set from the band at Danny's, but in my pretend world there'd be a house party just getting going here...
