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Miss Smyth's vocational gene pool consists of a male construction worker and a female night club owner. Clearly, Miss Smyth's pull was toward the musically of the night club persuasion, although many claim she is "very good with her hands" and "a lot of fun on a work site."
Far more compelled to dance with the band on stage than studying with the class at school, Patty Smyth was soon to be found singing everywhere, all the time. As there is basically no known antibiotic to cure this cheerful condition, Patty Smyth continues to this day to labor jauntily under this influence; this singing influence, or "Songster's Influenza" as it has come to be known.
No biography would be complete without a nod to the subject's arrest record. (Arrest record/recording artist -- think about it.) Patty Smyth was arrested twice as a juvenile of twelve, once for harassing an officer, and again for standing on a street corner with intent to buy narcotics. (Or was it loitering with intent to purchase an officer and again for harassing a narcotic?!) The files have been, quote, "misplaced", so little is known.
Patty's first gig at the age of fifteen was at New York's Folk City. She recalls singing a Cat Stevens song. (Everyone knows of Mr. Stevens subsequent questionable involvement with the Muslims -- a move for which Patty Smyth accepts only partial responsibility.)
Following her fruitless but erotic brush with the law, Patty Smyth became a member of a bad nameless rock band in her mother's club. Patty Smyth spent years floundering and festering until the formation of her first real band, "Patty and the Planets."
Their first job was on a boat in Philadelphia singing only James Brown songs, as they watched their musical equipment sway and slide with the rolling Philly tide. Unbeknownst to her, Patty Smyth had begun amassing the modicum of hyper dignity that was to become a thriving part of her swelling trademark.
Subsequently, Patty Smyth experienced an invigorating bout of waitressing at a comedy club with such luminaries as Jerry Seinfeld, Larry Miller and Paul Reiser. (Everyone knows of Mr. Seinfeld's subsequent television success, an event for which Patty Smyth accepts slightly more than partial responsibility.)
Somewhere in the eighties, Patty Smyth answered a pay phone in a steak house she was waitressing, and it was musician Zack Smith, who had been looking for Patty Smyth to join his band Scandal. Patty Smyth promptly did so, and a short time later the band had their first hit song, "Goodbye to You," enabling them to tour with nearly every top band for about a year as the sacrificial opening act.
With Patty's first money, she moved out of her tragic East Village apartment and into a less tragic East Village duplex.
Scandal's debut album was the largest selling EP in the history of Columbia Records.
After touring for one year and having a lot of facials, Patty Smyth went directly back into the studio with Scandal and recorded their second album; the album "The Warrior". The album sold over one million copies, and had the band's first top ten single, also coincidentally called "The Warrior."
An article was done on Patty Smyth at the time in The Wall Street Journal about how one can sell a multi-platinum album and still not make any money -- after recouping the cost of tour and video support and, of course, all those costly psychiatrist bills.
Having less financial security than her recent success implied, Patty Smyth did what any white, moderately educated New York chick would do -- she promptly married a less financially secure New York poet (Richard Hell, musician, poet and occasional contributor to Rolling Stone - RR) and had a child. The real success of this comic endeavor was her daughter Ruby, who more than compensated Patty Smyth for her deficiency in funds and questionable taste in men.
After the newly single, formerly Mrs. Hell divorced, she completed her first solo album, Never Enough, which to Patty Smyth's mind, and tragically, some others', was hardly enough indeed.
After a period of fruitless introspection, and once again amassing that hyper dignity that has become her swelling trademark, our Miss Patty has rounded up the usual suspects and returned to the scene of the crime by cutting her new album, called, coincidentally, "Patty Smyth". Patty Smyth returns to us fresh from a long life, with a collection of songs to reflect this period of refilling the well -- or possibly, a long sojourn at a writer's block party.
The albums first single, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," is a duet with the fabulous Don Henley. (Everyone knows of Mr. Henley's on-going battle with bachelorhood -- a phase for which Miss Smyth accepts only partial credit and some vocal back-up.)
Having accepted only partial responsibility for ever so many things, Miss Smyth would like at this time to take full and terrifying responsibility for her daughter, her singing voice, many of the songs on her new album, her courage, and her legs.
A special thanks from Ms. Smyth to Carrie Fisher for writing the "Officially Patty Smyth Biography." In return, she will be writing a song for Ms. Fisher's next novel. (Post-Partum from the Edge.)
(Following the success of her 1993 album, Patty Smyth returned to New York City, and became involved with John McEnroe, the famous tennis player. In December of 1995, she gave birth to a second daughter, Anna. In April of 1997, Patty Smyth married John in a ceremony in Hawaii. In March of 1999, Patty Smyth and John had another daughter, Ava. Patty Smyth still plans to continue her career, although, as she says, "My plate is pretty full"
DISCOGRAPHY:
1982, Scandal - EP, Five songs
1984, Warrior - With Scandal
1987, Never Enough - First Solo Album
1992, Patty Smyth - Solo
1998, Greatest Hits (featuring Scandal)
Collections:
1985, Picture Disk
1992, Scandalous
Singles (Not available on her albums):
All My Life - B side to "Goodbye To You" single, 1982
I Run Right Back - "Caddyshack II" soundtrack, 1988
Drive You Away - B side to "I Should Be Laughing", 1992
You Hung the Moon - "Eight Seconds" soundtrack, 1994
Look What Love Has Done - "Junior" Soundtrack, 1994, nominated for an Oscar for Best Song
PLEASE NOTE!!! "Look What Love Has Done" is NOT on the soundtrack album for the movie! It is out of print, although it may be found as a single.
Patty Smyth sings backup on:
Kwahare - David Amram, "At Home/Around the World", 1980 (Credited as "Patricia Smyth")
Pescau - "
Change - John Waite, "Ignition", 1982
Sunset Grill - Don Henley, "Building the Perfect Beast", 1984
All She Wants To Do Is Dance - "
Land Of The Living - "
Building the Perfect Beast - "
Where Do the Children Go? - The Hooters, "Nervous Night", 1985
Rosie Strike Back - Rosanne Cash, "King's Record Shop", 1987
How Bad Do You Want It? - Henley, "End Of the Innocence", 1988
The Night Stood Still - Dion, "Yo Frankie", 1989
The Mountain - Bob Seger, "The Fire Inside", 1991
The Real Love - " (Bridge vocals only)
Sightseeing - " (Bridge vocals only)
Ode to Billie Joe - Tom Scott, "Smokin' Section", 1999 (Lead Vocals)
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