Description

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1975 release. Coney Island Baby is a 1976 album by Lou Reed, released in January by RCA Records. It is also the title of a song on that album. Many of the album s songs were inspired by Reed s girlfriend and muse at the time, Rachel. According to Aidan Levy, Coney Island Baby was as much a love letter to Rachel as it was to the nostalgic Coney Island of the mind. The album s title track directly references Rachel with the line: I d like to send this one out to Lou and Rachel, and all the kids at P.S. one ninety-two. It was originally presented as a poem entitled The Coach and Glory of Love in The Harvard Advocate: Journal of Fiction and Poetry in 1971. The album includes the song She s My Best Friend , a version of which was originally recorded by Reed s band the Velvet Underground in 1969, and eventually released on the 1985 compilation album VU.

Track List

1. Crazy Feeling 2:50
3. Charley s Girl 2:35
5. She s My Best Friend 6:00
7. Kicks 6:00
9. A Gift 3:45
11. Ooohhh Baby 3:45
13. Nobody s Business 3:45
15. Coney Island Baby 6:35