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Corner Night (the Fashion Jungle)

from Memos and Demos by various artists including Doug Hubley

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This song is an attempt to come to grips with the fleeting nature of local rock bands and local fame, or at least recognition, of the kind the Fashion Jungle briefly enjoyed in the 1980s. Corner Night itself was actually a show, a triple bill that the Mirrors / Fashion Jungle, John Rolfe's Foreign Students and Gary Piscopo's Pathetix presented in 1980 and '81. All three bands had ties to Patty Anne's Superette, aka The Corner, in South Portland.

The song holds up — one of my better melodies, although the lyrics are very insidery. Yes, the Elvis Costello imitation is embarrassing, and there's also some debt to Ray Davies' "Waterloo Sunset." This demo was recorded on the two-track Sony in my parents' basement in 1985 for the Dan Knight lineup of the FJ.

And here's the Dan Knight-era FJ performing the song during our last rehearsal/recording sessions at our rental space ("The Body Shop") on Washington Avenue, Portland, Maine, in January 1986. What is an interesting and intricate arrangement on the demo turns into busyness for its own sake here, but kudos to bassist Dan and drummer Ken Reynolds for taking all those twists and turns so tightly.

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from Memos and Demos, released November 11, 2018

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Doug Hubley Portland, Maine

Doug Hubley is a musician and writer in Maine.

He has covered arts and lifestyle for publications in Maine and Massachusetts.

Doug began learning guitar in 1966, and hopes to finish the job one day. He has played with such bands as the Fashion Jungle, the Cowlix, the Boarders and Howling Turbines.

Today he is one-half of Day for Night, an acoustic country band also starring Gretchen Schaefer. ... more

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