PAT BENATAR 1st LP COXON'S ARMY 1974 PRIVATE PRESS RICHMOND VA MINT-
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Coxon's Army?– Live From Sam Miller Exchange Cafe from 1974...Very hard to find!! This was the 1st Record Pat Benatar appeared on. Vinyl is MINT-, Beautiful Sound. Comes with a free CD of this album including 2 songs off her single on Trace Records from 1974 "Day Gig" and "Last Saturday" The album is signed on the back by Phil Coxon and Bob Antonelli the drummer of the band.
Training as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard School, Benatar surprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursued health education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At 19, after one year at Stony Brook, she dropped out to marry her first husband, high school sweetheart Dennis Benatar, an army draftee who trained at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and then served with the Army Security Agency at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, before being stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia, where Dennis (Specialist (E-4)) was stationed for three years; Pat worked as a bank teller near Richmond, Virginia.[citation needed]
In 1973, Benatar quit her job as a bank teller to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a Liza Minnelli concert she saw in Richmond. She got a job as a singing waitress at a flapper-esque nightclub named The Roaring Twenties and got a gig singing in lounge band Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller's basement club. The band garnered enough attention to be the subject of a never-aired PBS special, and the band's bassist Roger Capps also would go on to be the original bass player for the Pat Benatar Band. The period also yielded Benatar's first and only single until her eventual 1979 debut on Chrysalis Records: "Day Gig" (1974), Trace Records, written and produced by Coxon's Army band leader Phil Coxon and locally released in Richmond. Her big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York. Her rendition of Judy Garland's "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her managerprice rating
