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Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song), the Glossary

"Roadrunner" is a song written by Jonathan Richman and recorded in various versions by Richman and his band, in most cases credited as the Modern Lovers.^[1]

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Beserkley Records singles
Marty Walsh
Song recordings produced by John Cale
Songs about Boston
The Modern Lovers songs

Beserkley Records

Beserkley Records was an American independent record label based in Berkeley, California, from 1973 to 1984.

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BOMP! Records

Bomp! Records is a Los Angeles-based record label formed in 1974 by fanzine publisher and music historian Greg Shaw, and Suzy Shaw.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.

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Cohasset, Massachusetts

Cohasset is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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David Linsky

David Paul Linsky (born October 16, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who currently represents the 5th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

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Deer Island (Massachusetts)

Deer Island is a peninsula in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Denise Provost (born March 9, 1951, in Lewiston, Maine) is an American politician who represented the 27th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2006 until 2020 and was a member of the Somerville, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen from 2000 to 2006.

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Earth Quake (band)

Earth Quake is an American power pop band, formed in the San Francisco area in 1966, who released several albums in the 1970s, mostly on Beserkley Records, a company which they were involved in setting up.

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Freedom Trail

The Freedom Trail is a path through Boston that passes by 16 locations significant to the history of the United States.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.

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Good Music (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts album)

Good Music is the fifth studio album by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released in 1986.

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Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic.

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Howard Johnson's

Howard Johnson by Wyndham, or more commonly known as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with over 200 hotels in 15 countries.

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Interstate 90

Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at.

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Joan Jett

Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin; September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer, and actress.

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John Cale

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground.

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John Hodgman

John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer.

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Johnny B. Goode

"Johnny B. Goode" is a song by American musician Chuck Berry, written and sung by Berry in 1958.

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Jonathan Richman

Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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Kim Fowley

Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s.

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Laura Barton

Laura Barton (born 1977) is an English journalist and writer.

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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989) is a non-fiction book by American rock-music critic Greil Marcus that examines popular music and art as a social critique of Western culture.

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Marty Walsh

Martin Joseph Walsh (born April 10, 1967) is an American politician and trade union official who served as the mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021 and as the 29th United States Secretary of Labor from 2021 to 2023.

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Massachusetts Route 128

Route 128, known as the Yankee Division Highway, is an expressway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts maintained by the Highway Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

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Massachusetts Turnpike

The Massachusetts Turnpike (colloquially the "Mass Pike" or "the Pike") is a controlled-access toll highway in the US state of Massachusetts that is maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

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Matthew King Kaufman

Matthew "King" Kaufman (born May 19, 1946) is an American record producer who was the owner of leading independent label Beserkley Records in Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, successfully producing records by Jonathan Richman, Greg Kihn and others.

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Natick, Massachusetts

Natick is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Pablo Picasso (song)

"Pablo Picasso" is a song written by Jonathan Richman for the proto punk group the Modern Lovers. Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song) and Pablo Picasso (song) are song recordings produced by John Cale and the Modern Lovers songs.

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Paul Revere

Paul Revere (December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.)May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.

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Proto-punk

Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement.

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Prudential Tower

The Prudential Tower, also known as the Prudential Building or, colloquially, the Pru,subscription required The Pru' everyone calls it: a resigned shrug of a name, as flat and uninflected as the wan moue its pronunciation requires." is an international style skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner_(Jonathan_Richman_song)

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Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song), the Glossary

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See also

Beserkley Records singles

Marty Walsh

Song recordings produced by John Cale

Songs about Boston

The Modern Lovers songs

References