Street Pajama - I Get Peculiar

I Get Peculiar was recorded in 1978 when Street Pajama consisted of old friends Mike King and Lane (Merle) Harmon. Brings back some memories of playing tunes and relaxing with them back in the frigid winters of North Dakota in the mid to late 70’s. Man, I’m getting old. I still have the vinyl with all the words and such, if interested. Wonder what happened to them???

Roy-
You’re not that old. It was great hearing from you. I am alive and well livin in Arizona. Mike is doing well too.
Email me.
Merle

I am curious. Did either Street Pajama or Mike Lane and/or Merle Harmon ever make any more records?

A former housemate turned me on to “I Get Peculiar” and it is a fine piece of vinyl. Would love to find a copy in mint condition somewhere.

I saw Street Pajama countless times in Phoenix in the Eighties. Partied a few times with the band. I still dust off the LPs (all three) from time to time to listen to that sweet voice. I sure wish i could see them again…

Merle, Glad to hear you and Mike are both doing well. Are either of you still making music? I remember many fun nights listening to you guys at Ninos and other old Tucson stompin’ grounds. I still have No Gold In Jersey and I Get Peculiar on vinyl - would LOVE to get them on CD/iPod as the turntable is gathering dust in our Flagstaff garage these days. Any chance?

I’ve loved you since I was little. My grandmother has a tape from a visit to her sister’s house in Arizona. I’ve been trying to find more music, maybe even a cd for some time. Is there anywhere I could purchase a cd?

I have to find this music…I saw them several times in Tucson way back when…Loved the music…Any tips on where I can find it????? thanks

Want to find Mike King or/and Merle Harmon. Knew them in Tucson.
Want to get CD’s.
Thanks!

I found an outfit called CDBBQ (www.cdbbq.com)that has access to a lot of old vinyl they’ll burn onto CD’s. They had a few copies of I Get Peculiar and Beast de Resistance a couple of years ago. I bought a CD of each. They do some filtering, so the sound is okay. Not sure what their Street Pajama inventory is now. (They also had some Bob Meighan Band albums.)

I was introduced to Merel and Mike by Brett Leading in the 1980s right after they did No Gold in Jersey–I still have that vinyl. Probably kow some of the people posting to this site! It’s obvious they still have a fan base. Sure would love to see them again!

Hello, Mighty Merlebella the Magnificent!
Nice to see you are still out there, would love to chat. i too still play my Street Pajama LPs…they are like fine wine.
Mary Kay AKA Ethel

Hi Ya’all,
I’m not sure that I’m believing this!! Could I really be reading emails from Merle and Mary Kay? Well just in case this might actually get to you, I thought I’d REALLY blow your mind and jump into the mix. I would love to chat with you guys somehow, so much has happened in so much time, I’d love an update. I’d love to hear from Mikey too.

It’s so wierd, I’ve been connecting with the good parts of my past a lot lately and now I’m running into you two (well sort of). Hopefully you will get in touch and we can chat. I have some interesting news for you.

I hope all is well with you and your respective families.

With Love and Light,
Scott

Merle and Mary Kay,
I really don’t understand how this site works, I happened upon it by accident, but you can always try this if you’re so inclined.
thisisbluejazz@yahoo.com
Look forward to chatting.
Scott

Hi Mike and Merle,

I picked up one of your albums years ago when I was dating a woman in Tucson, and unfortunately it was destroyed in a flood. I have a fading tape of the album. I’ve scoured the internet and old LP places in search of your three albums with no success. Is there any way that I could beg/borrow/or buy them from you in either LP format or CD or mp3? Or do you know of any source for them? I really love the sound, but my one tape of I Get Peculiar is rapidly fading. Thanks. Feel free to email me at :

andrew.10.drg@xoxy.net

Thanks!!!!

Wow I still have Beast de Resistance and it is in mint condition. I play it every once and a while. I was stationed in Ft. Huachuca and bought a copy from Lamont’s (then I guess) girlfriend. She was a hairstylist and I got a haircut from her. I met Lamont briefly. As I was a guitarist in the 36th Army Band. I moved to California and always stayed on the look out for Street Pajama as I thought they were destined for greatness, and guess what? You guys are! I hope you’re all still making music. I am. “Haste Makes Waste” is still the bomb! What pool did you take the cover pic in?

Much Love

Ken

Oh My God!!! MK, Merle, Scotty! My guy, Kyle, found this and directed me to it. (He came to town long after we used to do the Street Pajama breaks, but now nows Mikey and has listened to my LPs.) So many times I’ve wished for an SP reunion - odd to find it on someone’s blog! Mikey, whom we see every once in a while, suggested I don’t hold my breath waiting for that to occur - and I figured it would be tough to decide which of the bass players would be invited to sit in on that…
Just this morning, I was at Neil’s & he said he ran into Merle last night - and she might be doing some singing soon at a local coffee house. You can bet I’ll be there!
How fun to reminisce!
By the way, I do an occasional Street Pajama search on eBay - every once in a while an old LP or 45 comes up. Yeah, I have all of mine, but they’re staying here. When I talked to Bill Cashman recently, he did mention having still a few discs.
Gotta give Mikey a buzz and put the reunion bug in his ear again - I know we could really get a good crowd at such an event - hell, maybe even Mary Kay would pop into town & I could get Sue & Dave to drive down from Phoenix. Wonder where to find some of the other regulars like that field hockey player…

Wow… great to see others still listen and look for Streeet Pajama online!

I am from Tucson, but saw Street Pajama numersous times in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in the mid 80’s.

Glad to hear Mike & Merle are doing well… I still listen to their thre albums… have even transferred No Gold in Jersey to CD… and have it on my iPod! The changing times!!

Alan

My wife and I were big fans and have great memories of talking with Mikey and Merle during intermissions. They were always so cordial and spent time with the audience.

I have Beast de Resistance, I Get Peculiar, and No Gold in Jersey on vinyl. I want to take them with me on my digital players and am now trying to rip them to MP3 for personal use. Great stuff. If any of you are performing still, I’d love to hear you. Thanks for great memories.

I’ve managed to get hold of I get Peculiar and No Gold in Jersey, and have converted them (for personal use) to MP3 and CD’s. Would love it if someone wanted to trade for Beast de Resistance (hint John). I can be contacted at: streetpajama.15.drg@xoxy.net

I oginally heard these folks (I get Peculiar too) back in the early 80’s when visiting my brother in Tuscon. Had the album until I loaned it out to someone and they lost it! Begged dear old brother to scour Tuscon and guess what!? He found a copy (not sure where) and in mint condition and gave it to me last year. So glad to have these guys back on my vinyl collection! This is one of my all time favorites and is especially a treat for my fellow northeasterners who have never heard these guys.

I was in the process of converting some old records (they belonged to my children in the 80s) to CDs for them (since none of them has a turntable anymore). Then I was going to sell the records on EBay or the local record exchange store. I came across Street Pajama, No Gold in Jersey, and noticed it was recorded by Art Attack Records here in Tucson. What a surprise. So then I got curious and Googled Street Pajama and here I am. Amazing.

So I take it some of you folks are interested in the record? I’m converting them to CD on a simple machine (turntable on top, CD slot below). Nothing fancy. But it seems to work. The record sounds good - no pops, snaps.

Well, Susan, are correct, there are probably a lot of us out there that want to relive our youth and party days in Tucson and Phoenix in the 70’s and 80’s. I used to have a recording of “I get peculiar” on cassette that I ripped from a friends LP but, it is long since faded into who knows where after several moves. And, who has a cassette player anymore, anyway. I would love to have a recording of ANY SP album. Let me know how I can get a copy! frapoo@msn.com

BTW, I tried to look up Art Attack Records but was directed to an outfit in NYC.

Wow, what a trip. As soon as I came across this, I threw my tape(original Art Attack shiny gold glued on-label) of”No Gold In Jersey”in and as I read the comments”You Make The Livin”, “Screwed Again” and “I Be LooKin” For A Fool” have played. I had the pleasure of buying Merle and Mike a drink between sets, back in ‘83 or ‘84 at some club at 1st and Grant. What a cool night and it impressed the Hell out of my date.
I have shared this music from coast to coast for the last 25 years. I still remember seeing them on MTV. I about s**t my pants. The Good Lord still loves them blues.

Just one more thing…….
A group from Phoenix, The Refreshments
put out an album in ‘96 called “Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy”
Side two of that record is strangely reminiscent of
“No Gold In Jersey”
My two, very favorite records

Arizona Rocks, and Rolls, and Grooves

Peace Out

My Street Pajama albums are two of my favorites. In the mid-eighties I volunteered as a sit-in programmmer with KAZU in Monterey. I introduced my albums over the air then.
I also recall that I was listening to a cassette copy of “I get Peculiar” when I was riding my Moped on my way to work and was hit by a car. It wasn’t a serious accident. I got a few days off work and a scar but that song always reminds me of that moment.
I miss the opportunity to hear the band in Tempe as I had done in my early college years. Are there any CD’s available? My records are no longer playable.

I remember I had a live recording of SP that I bootlegged from a local Tucson radio station during a live, local music broadcast session. It was on cassette and was one of my favorite recordings. Wish I could locate it now. It had a little slower tempo, bluseier version of I Get Peculiar that I really liked. That recording must live on, somewhere, don’t ya think? I’ll bet Mike and Merle have a copy. Come on, you guys, give em up!

I miss my album of No Golf in Jersey, Life Lesson #1 never, never, never, never, never loan out something you love to a friend. They wind up moving away and taking your prized posession with them.

I wish I still had some of the 1/2 tape they recorded some songs on. I bought a recording studio here in Tucson back in the early 1980’s, and it included a lot of tapes that were “left behind,” including a lot of Street Pajama music like “David the Roach” (I think the name was David). I listened to the tapes once or twice and thought they could really be something if mized properly (they were recorded on an Otari MX-5050 series using only 8 tracks…if the original owner of the studio had known how to use the board, he would have realized he could easily have bump-tracked it to 16 with no problems and produce better mix-downs). I never made copies because it wouldn’t have been ethical. A lot of original stuff, some I never even heard when they would play clubs locally.

I had to sell the studio after Sheriff Ronstadt (yes, Linda’s brother) would continually raid my studio because I was killing his brother’s business, who owned a 4-track cassette-type (Fostex recorders with Radio Shack 4-channel mixing board) studio appropriately called “MoRon Studios.”

I would love to be able to get access to some of that music. I though it was excellent work…very talented.

Amazing, I just returned home from Denver; where my brother burned me two CD’s from both “I get Peculiar” and “No Gold in Jersey”

I had the pleasure to have these guys in my bar and in a freinds bar in the early 80’s in Tucson. Turned both my brothers onto them and then I moved to California. I’d love to see them re-issue those albums on a high quality CD, because I’d buy copies for friends who heard their music from my very old vinyl… Meryl had a wonderful voice… This was a wonderful band.

DCGIBBS - Boise, ID

Street Pajama, and Bob Meighan played at the Pawnbroker in Tucson, late 70s, early 80s. They have reopened club as Italian restaurant, Corleones, and we ate there two weeks ago. Great acoustics, looks the same. Even disco ball hanging from the ceiling. I get peculiar.

For my birthday this year, 2008 I got a turntable that has a USB cable on it. The very first alblum that I recorded was ‘No Gold in Jersey’, yes, out of hundreds. I put them in MP3 and now listen to them at work. I was in Tuscon only a short time at the Military base there. I now wished I would have been more in tune with music as I would also like to get a hold of their other music. If anyone who is on this long list of responses recieved any information on how to get the whole collection, I would like to be informed on how to do this myself. It’s a shame that it has not been better perserved.

Craig cebowa@juno.com

Just a Street Pajama fan from the early 80’s trying to get access to their music. I have been searching on line to no avail! Used to enjoy watching them play on Mill Street in Tempe partying with my old buds.

I found “Haste Makes Waste” MP3 on line at azlocal.google.com. Great to hear their music and now trying to find more uploads?

Any help appreciated!

MMunsch - Charlottte, NC

Like Craig, I spent the time this last Holiday break to convert my three Street Pajama albums to MP3s (I Get Peculiar, No Gold In Jersey & Beast de Résistance)… Even spent time to create the album art by snapping the shots on my digital camera and cleaning them up in Photoshop! The music sounds (and looks) great in my iPod and on my car CD player!

Would love to know what Merle Harmon is up to theses days!!

Alan

Alan,

Send me an email, would like to converse with you.

Craig cebowa@juno.com

First heard Street Pajama when they started playing Screwed on the radio in Tucson. I was too young to ever see them live, though. Grabbed a cassette of No Gold in Jersey (which I still have) and a vinyl of Beast. Taped Peculiar from a friend’s copy, and have that too. Have always loved everything they ever did that I could find.

Couldn’t find any info online till now, Google is your friend!

FYI: All three Street Pajama vinyl LP albums are currently up for sale on eBay (May 13-20). Two are still sealed.