Artist:  Good Rats

Title:  Rat City in Blue

Date:  1976

Label:  Ratcity / Platimun Records RCR-8001

Album Design:  Michael Mancusi

Notes:  The boys from Long Island put together another fine album full of songs and stories. Featuring the ever-popular "Yellow Flower" somehow the general public just didn't seem to discover the Good Rats while their fans base was still strong. Peppi could always be depended on to turn in a handful of classic tunes for each record and the band never failed to bring them to musical life. The band rubbed elbows with a few players in the upper tiers, but never took that step forward. Not to say that they we're any the lesser for it. I was fortunate enough to be living in New Jersey in the late seventies and saw the Rats play live more than a few times and we weere never disappointed. The cover art places the rat in a Gershwin-like setting as the boys watch from th wings.

Line Up:

Lead Vocals: Peppi Marchello
Guitar Vocals: Mickey Marchello
Bass vocals: lenny Kotke
Guitar: John "The Cat" Gatto
Drums: Joe "Brasciola" Franco
Words and Music: Peppi Marchello

Track Listing

Side 1

Does It Make You Feel Good
Boardwalk Slasher
Ratcity in Blue
Reason to Kill

Side 2

Writing the Pages
The Room
Almost Anything Goes
Advertisement in the Voice
Yellow Flower
Tough Guys
Hour Glass