BACK ON THE STREETS
Released: 1980


 



Donnie Iris - all lead and background vocals
Mark Avsec - piano, organ, synthesizers, occasional vocal and starring as 'the doctor'

Marty Lee - accoustic and electric guitars
Albritton McClain - bass guitar
Kevin Valentine - drums
Kenny Blake - saxophone

Robert Peckman - bass on 'Shock Treatment'


Side 1:

1) AGNES (Avsec, Ierace)
2) YOU'RE ONLY DREAMING (Avsec, Ierace, McClain, Hoenes, Valentine)
3) SHE'S SO WILD  (Avsec, Ierace, McClain, Hoenes, Valentine)
4) DADDY DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE  (Avsec, Ierace)
5) TOO YOUNG TO LOVE  (Avsec, Ierace)

Side 2:

6) AH! LEAH!  (Avsec, Ierace)
7) I CAN'T HEAR YOU  (Avsec, Ierace, McClain, Hoenes, Valentine)
8) JOKING  (Avsec, Ierace)
9) SHOCK TREATMENT  (Avsec)
10) BACK ON THE STREETS  (Avsec, Ierace)


Produced by Mark Avsec for the Belkin-Maduri Organization
Executive Producer - Carl Maduri

Kevin Valentine appears courtesy of EMI records

Recording Engineer - Jerry Reed (thanks for your dedication and patience) and thanks to Don Garin for his invaluable assistance.

A special 'thank you' to Carl Maduri for his belief and support and to Lenora Avsec and Linda Iris couldn't have done it without you.

Recorded at Jeree Studios, New Brighton, PA Spring 1980.

Design and art direction - Robert E. Rath, Jr.
Photography - Robert Holcepl
Art - Bob Janusz

Original release - MWL1984 Midwest Records
Re-release - MCA-3272 MCA Records
CD Releases - MCA-35415 Razor & Tie/MCA Records (1993)
  American Beat - B000XP42CE - (November 7, 2007)
  Rock Candy Records - B094Z6ZBC5 (July 2, 2021)

Notes: The album was originally released on the small Midwest Records label out of Cleveland, Ohio. After the single "Ah! Leah!" garnered airplay, MCA records signed Donnie Iris to a recording contract and re-released the album with sides 1 and 2 reversed.