PAT BENATAR 1st LP COXON'S ARMY 1974 PRIVATE PRESS RICHMOND VA NM+ ROCK BLUES

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‎– Live From Sam Miller Exchange Cafe from 1974 on Purple Sam Miller Label...Very hard to find!! This was the 1st Record Pat Benatar appeared on. There were 2 versions of this , and in my opinion the Purple label is Harder to find.. Vinyl is NRMT, Beautiful

Training as a with plans to attend the , Benatar surprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursued health education at the . At 19, after one year at Stony Brook, she dropped out to marry her first husband, high school sweetheart Dennis Benatar, an army draftee who trained at , and then served with the Army Security Agency at , before being stationed at , where Dennis (Specialist (E-4)) was stationed for three years; Pat worked as a near .[]

In 1973, Benatar quit her job as a bank teller to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a concert she saw in Richmond. She got a job as a singing waitress at a -esque nightclub named The Roaring Twenties and got a gig singing in lounge band Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller's basement club. The band garnered enough attention to be the subject of a never-aired special, and the band's bassist Roger Capps also would go on to be the original bass player for the Pat Benatar Band. The period also yielded Benatar's first and only single until her eventual 1979 debut on : "Day Gig" (1974), Trace Records, written and produced by Coxon's Army band leader Phil Coxon and locally released in Richmond. Her big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the in New York. Her rendition of 's "" earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her manager


A1 Shaft 1:07 A2 Can't Help Lovin' That Man 2:47 A3 Respect 3:23 A4 Natural Man 3:44 A5 MacArthur Park 6:40 B1 Theme & Variations 5:20 B2 If He Walked Into My Life 4:07 B3 Hoe Down 2:57 B4 Brother Love 7:30