Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Released: April 27, 2004

Songwriter: Richard O’Brien

One, two
One, two, three, four!

[Verse 1]
Michael Rennie was ill
The day the earth stood still
But he told us where we stand.
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear.
Claude Raines was the invisible man.
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong,
They got caught in a celluloid jam.
Then at a deadly pace
It came from outer space,
And this is how the message ran

[Chorus 1]
Science Fiction, Double Feature.
Dr. X will build a creature.
See androids fighting Brad and Janet.
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet,
Oh oh oh ooohh
At the late night, double feature picture show.

[Verse 2]
I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills.
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills.
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills.
But "When worlds collide",
Said George Pal to his bride
"I'm going to give you some terrible thrills",
Like a

[Chorus]
Science Fiction, Double Feature.
Dr. X will build a creature.
See androids fighting Brad and Janet.
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet.
Oh oh oh ooohh
At the late night, double feature picture show,

I want to go,
To the late night double feature picture show,
By RKO,
To the late night, double feature picture show,
In the back row
Oh ooohh
To the late night double feature picture show.

Science Fiction, Double Feature
Frank has built and lost his creature
Darkness has conquered Brad and Janet
The servants gone to a distant planet

[outro]
Oh oh oh ooohh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I wanna go
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row
By RKO
I wanna go

After splitting with The Runaways, and releasing her first solo album, Joan Jett placed an ad in LA Weekly looking for bandmates. Gary Ryan, Eric Ambel, and Danny “Furious” O'Brien joined her, creating the orginial Blackhearts lineup.

After their initial tour though, O'Brien was replaced with Lee Crystal.

Early on, keeping the band afloat was not easy. Joan and producer Kenny Laguna struggled, sometimes selling copies of albums from the trunk of his car. Eventually unable to keep up with the demand for Joan Jett’s album, they signed with Boardwalk Records.

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