Joan Jett - 1982-01-03 - The Ritz, New York, NY (FM)

Joan Jett &
The Blackhearts

1982-01-03

The Ritz

New York, NY

WNEW-FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Bad Reputation

02. Run Away

03. Wooly Bully

04. I Love Rock and Roll

05. Nag

06. Wait For Me

07. Black Leather

08. Crimson & Clover

09. You Don't Know What You've Got

10. Victim of Circumstance

11. Fire

12. Do You Wanna Touch

13. Shout

14. Rebel Rebel

Joan Jett - 1982-01-03 - The Ritz, New York, NY (FM)

For this one, we go back 41 years ago today, to January 3, 1982, to hear WNEW-FM capture Joan Jett at The Ritz in New York City. This show takes place about 2 months after the release of Joan’s 2nd album, I Love Rock and Roll, in November 1981. Initial pressings of that disc had The Little Drummer Boy as the final track, but once the holiday season ended, subsequent releases of the album replaced that song with O Woe is Me. While the album was in stores, the title track had not yet been released as a single. When it was, just a few weeks later, it shot to the top of the Billboard charts, spending 7 weeks at number one between March and May 1982. The video for the song also received extensive airplay on MTV. Thanks to the success of the single, the album climbed all the way to #2 on the charts. The next thing you knew, Joan Jett, who at one point was selling her debut album out of the truck of her producer’s car, was on top of the rock world!