WHY DON'T YOU SMILE
Created on 10/12/2009Latest update on 02/10/2024
Artist: Otis & The All Night Workers
Author: Lou Reed/John Cale/Terry Philips/Jerry Vance
Label: Roxy
Year: 1966
Pre Velvets collaboration John Cale/Lou Reed. Reissued on Mayhem & Psychosis Vol. 1 and in '24 on Light in the Attic comp Why Don't You Smile Now, holding 25 titles Reed composed as staff writer for Pickwick Records in 1964-65. Those All Night Workers were old pals he and Cale knew from Syracuse Univ.
Covers:
- 1966:
Downliners Sect [as Why Don't You Smile Now]
- 1979:
Crawdaddys [idem]
- 1986:
- 1987:
Maureen Tucker [idem]
- 1996:
Headcoats Sect [Thee Headcoats + two Downliners, Don Craine & Keith Grant; Downliners Sect introduced headcoats in rock]
- 2003:
