Going Down To Bloomfield Center

 

Komik-Kazee

Going Down To Bloomfield Center

Going Down To Bloomfield Center (instrumental)

Stardust Records SR-8301
1983


Vocalists (pictured on the sleeve) were Elizabeth Kast, Jack Keller, Thomas Gilpin, Kevin Reid, Sallie Schoneboom, Lisa Siccone, Ken Schwartz

The band :
 Jeff Hays, bass
Bob Marino, guitar
  Jim Thomas, drums
Ken Schwartz, piano
plus
Nantara, synthetiser
Joe Passaro, percussion

This is  the second record engineered and produced by George Louvis for his own Stardust label, located on Valley Road in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

Komik-Kazee was a group of comedians. Ken Schwartz was the guy who put the group together and wrote this song and did most of the writing for a lot of the skits that they did.

Kevin Reed, one of the members of the group, happened to work at George Louvis dad's restaurant. So Kevin told they were going to be doing a show at Rascals and he invited everybody from the restaurant to come see him.  So they all ran up to Rascals in West Orange to watch them and one of the things they did was this song, Going Down To Bloomfield Center.

George Louvis :

And when the show ended, I talked to Ken and I was like, that's a great song, you know, what are you doing with it?  And he didn't have anything to do with it. So we got to talking, we negotiated a deal. I signed him to Stardust and we put the record out. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. They only had one song, so for the B-side, we did an instrumental version, like a dub version