Description
Joey Luongo has been a part of the dance music soundscape for those in the know from way back when, his first records surfacing in 1990 under a variety of monikers and on a slew of labels, some (Cabaret, Loop d’Loop, Foot Stompin’) his own, others (Underworld, Maxi, Minimal) not, but the label copy always bearing the credit ‘produced by Pal Joey’. Queens, NYC born-and-bred Italian-American Joey took his alias from the Broadway musical of the same name, the titular character of which was memorably played on the big screen by the most famous of Italian- Americans, Frank Sinatra. Joey’s father was naturally into Sinatra and junior liked ‘the image, the feel and the elegance’ that went with the movie and the star. The illustrations on Joey’s labels typically featured line drawing figures that look like they had stepped straight out of Pal Joey or any number of New York-based films of the ‘30s,’ 40s and ‘50s. Joey’s music had a similar jazziness and urban feel, firmly rooted in the exciting musical culture of NYC through the ‘80s, when Joey had come up.
