The first record Lou Reed every featured on. And a classic on its own merit.
'On April 14th 1958, one month after Lou's sixteenth birthday veteran produced Bob Shad signed The Jades to Mercury Records. This was their first and only single featuring tenor saxophonist King Curtis of "Yakety Yak" fame and guitar icon Mickey Baker. Between "Leave Her For me" and its B-Side "So Blue" Lou received about three dollars in royalties, partially due to payola schemes. Before they graduated to playing shopping malls and beach clubs across Long Island, one of their first performances was at a dive bar in Freeport, their home town, which was disrupted when the local color started throwing bottles. " we had to stand by one of those stupid fences to keep the bottles from killing us," lead singer Phil Harris recalls of the night.'
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