“Havana Affair” by The Ramones

"Havana Affair" sits on Ramones, the band's debut album, which Sire Records turned loose on April 23, 1976, and like everything else on that record it gets in and out fast: nothing on the album runs past two and a half minutes. Joey Ramone sings it, Johnny Ramone hacks at the guitar, Dee Dee Ramone holds down the bass and Tommy Ramone drums, and the songwriting credit is split among all four of them.

Craig Leon produced it, with Thomas Erdelyi credited as associate producer and Rob Freeman engineering. Leon had been talked into the job by the band's manager, Danny Fields, and he was the one who got Sire's Seymour Stein to come and hear them play. The sessions began in January 1976 and wrapped in seven days, for $6,400.

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