Song · Elton Motello
“Jet Boy, Jet Girl” by Elton Motello
From the album Victim of Time (1978)
“Jet Boy, Jet Girl” by Elton Motello appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1991 and 1999. It was first released in 1978 on the album Victim of Time. Its best result is #585 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,283 alternative song of all time.
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Alan Ward had toured Belgium with Bastard, and he used his connections there to launch a new alias, Elton Motello, with "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" on the Belgian Pinball label in 1977. It's a snotty punk rock tale of a 15-year-old boy whose older male lover throws him over for a girl, and it later landed on the album Victim of Time.
Ward's regular band isn't on it. Session players Mike Butcher on guitar, John Valcke on bass and Bob Dartsch on drums cut the backing track, and that same tape turned up simultaneously under Plastic Bertrand's "Ça plane pour moi". So it's no cover: the two songs grew out of one track side by side. Bertrand got the international hit; Motello got Australia, where RCA issued it and it reached No. 33 nationally, No. 11 in Melbourne and No. 10 in Sydney.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 908 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 1999 | 585 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
Also listed as: Jet Boy Jet Girl.
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