Screaming Targets

1979 studio album by Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons

Screaming Targets

Studio album by

Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons

Released| 13 July 1979
Recorded| 1978−79
Studio| Armstrong Studios
Genre|

* Pop rock
* blues rock

Label| Mushroom
Producer| Peter Solley
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons chronology
| Let's Drip Awhile
(1979)  | Screaming Targets
(1979)  | Hats Off Step Lively
(1980)

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Singles from  Screaming Targets

1. "Hit and Run"
Released: July 1979
2. "Shape I'm In"
Released: October 1979

Screaming Targets is the fourth studio album by Australian pop rock band Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons. The album was the band's first via Mushroom Records. Released in July 1979, the album peaked at number 13 on the Australian Kent Music Report, becoming the band's first top twenty album. The album was released with a limited edition bonus record featuring songs recorded live at Sentimental Bloke Hotel, Bombay Rock, Melbourne, April 1979.[1]

The US release, detailed below, differed slightly from the original Australian issue, and did not appear until 1980.

## Critical reception[edit]

"The songs and the melodies" of the album reminded critics of Billboard magazine the works of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and they expressed the thought that future possible success of Jo Jo Zep's depend on their willingness to continue to follow this style.[2]

## Track listing (Original Australian version)[edit]

Side ANo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Hit and Run"| Joe Camilleri, Jeff Burstin, Tony Faehse| 4:36
2.| "Don't Wanna Come Down"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:28
3.| "Katschara"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:13
4.| "Only the Lonely Hearted"| Paul Kelly| 2:44
5.| "You Made a Fool Out of Me"| Mickey Jupp| 4:50

Side BNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Close to the Bone"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:16
2.| "Shape I'm In"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:30
3.| "Trials and Tribulations"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:38
4.| "Thin Line"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:17
5.| "Open Hearted"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:06

Bonus live LP with original Australian issue:

Side CNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Security"| Otis Redding| 4:45
2.| "So Young"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:33
3.| "Not a Woman, Not a Child"| Murray, Peters| 3:25
4.| "Oh Mona"| Ellas McDaniel| 6:03

Side DNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Cuthulu"| Camilleri, Bruce Woodcock| 9:56

## Track listing (Revised US version)[edit]

The US version, issued in 1980, dropped "You Made a Fool Out of Me" and added a newly-recorded studio version of "So Young".

Side ANo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Hit and Run"| Joe Camilleri, Jeff Burstin, Tony Faehse| 4:36
2.| "Don't Wanna Come Down"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:28
3.| "Katschara"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:13
4.| "Only the Lonely Hearted"| Paul Kelly| 2:44
5.| "So Young"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:19

Side BNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Close to the Bone"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:16
2.| "Shape I'm In"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:30
3.| "Trials and Tribulations"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:38
4.| "Thin Line"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 3:17
5.| "Open Hearted"| Camilleri, Burstin, Faehse| 4:06

## Personnel[edit]

Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons

* Joe Camilleri — vocals, saxophone, guitar
* Jeff Burstin - guitar
* Tony Faehse - guitar, backing vocals
* John Power - bass, vocals
* Gary Young - drums

## Charts[edit]

Chart (1979–80)  | Peak
position

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Australian Kent Music Report[3] | 13
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[4] | 25

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons Screaming Targets". Discogs. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
2. ^ "Review: Jo Jo Zep — Screaming Targets" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 18\. 3 May 1980. p. 50\. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2021 - via American Radio History.
3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 156\. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
4. ^ "Charts.nz – Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – Screaming Targets". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 October 2017.

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Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons

* Joe Camilleri
* Gary Young
* Wilbur Wilde
* Jane Clifton

Studio albums|

* Don't Waste It
* Whip It Out
* So Young
* Screaming Targets
* Hats Off Step Lively
* Dexterity
* Cha
* Ricochet

Reissued albums|

* Step Lively

Live albums|

* Live!! Loud and Clear
* Let's Drip Awhile

Compilations|

* The Sound of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons
* Shape I'm In: The Complete Anthology
* The Best of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons

Singles|

* "Run Rudolph Run"
* "Beating Around the Bush"
* "(I'm in a) Dancing Mood"
* "Honey Dripper"
* "So Young"
* "Hit and Run"
* "Shape I'm In"
* "All I Wanna Do"
* "Puppet on a String"
* "I Will Return"
* "But It's Alright"
* "Gimme Little Sign"
* "Taxi Mary"
* "Walk On By"

Related articles|

* Discography
* The Black Sorrows

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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