Ask for Janice Lyrics
Call Paul's Boutique, ask for Janice
The number is, ah, 718-498-1043
That's Paul's Boutique, and they're in Brooklyn
About
“Part 1” is the last 50 seconds of this video, and that which appears as Track #14 on Paul’s Boutique.
And here’s Part II, which features the Boys in the extended sequence, from the (VHS) The Skills to Pay the Bills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6aDzjCTb4
Q&A
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In 2019, Mike D explained to Interview Magazine:
I taped a reggae show in the ’80s, The Gil Bailey Show, and there was a commercial for Paul’s Boutique, the one that’s on the record. And we used to make mixtapes all the time, and on one of the mixtapes I put that commercial on there. We thought it was funny so we were going to put it on the record. And then we ended up calling the record Paul’s Boutique. Later in time, I don’t know how much later, Adam Yauch got that phone number and transferred it to his parents’ basement in Brooklyn. So he had an answering machine that anybody who called Paul’s Boutique would hear. The outgoing message was something like, “Hey, man. It’s Paul. Can’t come to the store right now, leave a message.” For years.
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