Rare 1966 “Purple Majesty” Recording
January 19th, 2010 | By admin
This is the recording I wrote about in I Slept With Joey Ramone. It’s the “single” Joey produced in 1966, of my band Purple Majesty . We were three 12 year old kids, Joey was 16. We wrote the “A” side In This Day and Age and he thought it would be a hit. This is the way it sounds right now, but I’m taking it to a mastering facility to cut down the noise. Enjoy it if you can, old school style, scratches and all.
PURPLE MAJESTY “IN THIS DAY AND AGE”
PURPLE MAJESTY “I CAN’T KEEP FROM CRYIN’”
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Musician/author Mickey Leigh was born in 1954 and raised in the Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills, New York City. His career as a guitarist/vocalist/songwriter began in the 5th grade at the age of 10 when he formed his first band, The Overdose Of Sound. He was 12 when he recorded his first studio record with his second band, Purple Majesty (with his older brother Jeff acting as producer), and began playing shows in clubs in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. By the age of 14, Mickey was playing in a band and recording with 21 year old musicians John Cummings, and Tommy Erdelyi. (John, Tommy, neighbor Doug Colvin, and Mickey’s remarkably talented older brother Jeff, were later to become Johnny, Tommy, and Joey Ramone, after forming the world famous Ramones)...