Buster's Spanish Rocketship is the fourth album from Buster Poindexter, the alter ego

Alter ego

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 of singer David Johansen

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...

. Following ...Rocketship, David Johansen returned to recording albums under his real name.

Like his previous two albums Buster Goes Berserk

Buster Goes Berserk

Buster Goes Berserk is the second album from Buster Poindexter, an alter ego of singer David Johansen.It features his backing band "The Banshees of Blue," aided by "The Uptown Horns". Released in 1989, the album continued the "lounge rock" style of its predecessor, Buster Poindexter in covering...

and Buster's Happy Hour

Buster's Happy Hour

Buster's Happy Hour is the third album from Buster Poinddexter, the alter ego of singer David Johansen.Like his previous album Buster Goes Berserk, it features his backing band The Banshees of Blue, continues the "lounge rock" style of its predecessors in covering rhythm 'n' blues songs of the...

, it features his backing band The Banshees of Blue, and also continued the "lounge rock" style of its predecessors in covering rhythm 'n' blues songs of the 1940s and 1950s. Although a promotion video was made for Ondine, "Mean Spirited Sal" was the most popular track.

Track listing

1. "Ondine"
2. "Nueva Broadway (They Don't Smoke)"
3. "Downtown Dream"
4. "Inez (Is Just a Big Rage Queen)"
5. "The Closer I Get to Heavan"
6. "My First Sin"
7. "Let's Take It Easy"
8. "Linda Lee"
9. "Iris Chacon"
10. "Skin & Bones"
11. "Mean Spirited Sal"
12. "Lay Down"
13. "Rhumba (Dance Fever)"

Personnel

• Buster Poindexter - vocals
  

The Banshees of Blue

• Soozie Tyrell
  Soozie Tyrell
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   - vocals
• Richard Barone - vocals
• Brian Koonin - guitar, cuatro
• Jack Bashkow - saxophone, piccolo
• Kenny Fradley - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Byron Stripling - trumpet
• Mark Pender - trumpet
• Conrad Herwig - trombone
• Jimmy Bosch - trombone
• Randy Andos - bass trombone
• Charlie Giordano - accordion, piano
• Andy Gonzales - bass
• Brian Hamm - bass
• Tony Machine - drums
• Fred Walcott - percussion
• Ismael "Bongo" Bruno - percussion
• Mike Jacobson - percussion