Tokens "Intercourse"

When Mitch Margo was around seventeen years old, he was probably the most depressed he had ever been in his life. Writing the songs for the "Intercourse " album was his therapy. He was telling himself 'It's Amazing To Be Alive' (which is the title of the short cut that opens the album). The label they were recording for at the time, Warner Bros., rejected this album. It was later released in a slightly altered form to fulfill a contractual agreement on the old B.T. Puppy label. Few copies were printed or shipped. Because it was listed in the B.T. Puppy catalog, collectors have been calling about it. So here it is...in it's original form...lost but not forgotten.

Tracks:

It's Amazing To Be Alive
Droplet Of Water
Bathroom Wall
Animal
Greenfields
Wonderful Things
Commercial
Gray Is Gray
Waiting For Something
I Could Be
Girl On 6
I Want To Make Love To You
In & Out
Stereo
You Loser-You Fool
Some People Sleep

The Tokens are now in their fourth decade of writing, recording and performing. Ask anyone who is in kindergarten and they have heard "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." This album not only keeps the classics alive with tracks such as "Come Go With Me," "In The Still Of The Night" and "Tonight I Fell In Love," but again provides The Tokens to be on pop music's cutting edge with the driving tribute, "30 Years Of Rock And Roll," the nostalgic title track "Oldies Are Now," the haunting "Just A Thought," and the bonus answering machine mini-track, "After The Beep."

Tracks:

The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Oldies Are Now
Tonight I Fell In Love
I'm So Happy
I'll Remeber(In The Still of the Night)
Come Go With Me
Rock and Roll Lullaby
Oldies Reprise
I Hear Trumpets Blow
Doo Rap
Slow Dance
Merry Merry
Play Ball
After The Beep
Just A Thought
30 Years of Rock and Roll
Wimoweh Reprise

Tonight The Lion Dances is a romantic 'Latin-Doo Wop-Dance' album sung in two languages. This album represents the Tokens at their creative best. Nice booklet and liner notes features dance steps for popular latin dances.

Tracks:

Swing (Suenalo)
The Speak Up Mambo (Cuentame)
La Bamba
Suave
Coco Seco (Dry Coconuts)
Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha
Only In My Dreams
After The Beep (Despues Del Tono)
Lemon Merengue
Rica Cha (The Martian Cha Cha)
El Wimoweh (Tonight The Lion Dances)
Green Plant
When You Dance
Suavito
Creatures Of The Night
Antes Del Baile
Save The Last Dance For Me

The band blames this album on two things, Disney and O.J. Simpson. Because of the two they found themselves in the K-ROCK studios at 600 Madison Avenue in the Big Apple. (For those avid fans, the home of the Howard Stern Radio Show.) The Lion King had made The Lion Sleeps Tonight a semi-household name and Howard's gang of merry men had written a parody of it surrounding the O.J. Simpson murder case. So there they were, on the Howard Stern Show, singing a parody of their own song. When the interview was over The Tokens dazzled Howard and the gang with a little parody of their own.

Tracks:

Ba Ba Booey
Naked Before You
Bathroom Wall
Coco Seco
Play Ball
In And Out
Animal
Hitler's Still Alive
You Loser You Fool
After The Beep (Espanol)
Wimoweh Reprise
Speak Up Mambo
Just A Thought
Green Plant
Commercial
Rica Cha
Oldies Are Now
When I Was Old
Only In My Dreams