Artist:Primitive Radio Gods
Song:Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
Album:Rocket
This record was a top ten hit in 1996. The video was popular on MTV. And then Primitive Radio Gods went nowhere. So yes, Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand is a one hit wonder. Chris O'Connor is the lead singer and songwriter. He is from Oxnard, CA. His previous band The I-Rails released four albums in the late 80s. After they split up, O'Connor recorded demos as Primitive Radio Gods. When no one was interested, he retired from the music business. One day while housecleaning, he found a forgotten box of demo tapes. In a final act of desperation, O'Connor sent them to all the record labels. Jonathan Daniel in the New York office of the British label Fiction Records was interested in Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand which heavily sampled BB King's How Blue Can You Get. Daniel signed O'Connor to a publishing deal and got him a record deal with Columbia when he went to work there. the song appeared in the 1996 film The Cable Guy. It reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album Rocket was certified Gold. O'Connor turned Primitive Radio Gods inro a band with I-Rails bandmates Jeff Sparks on guitar and Tim Lauterio on drums. He also added Luke McAuliffe on guitar. They toured. Before O'Connor could begin working on the next album, Columbia dropped them probably because Daniel left. He got them a deal with Sire. Corporate restructuring caused the 1999 album Mellotron On! to be delayed. When it finally was released, it had a different title and went nowhere. O'Connor continues to release albums as Primitive Radio Gods. It is unlikely that he will be able to repeat his commercial success. Here's the video for Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods.
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