Let's Do It for Johnny!! is the major-label debut and fifth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 of Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup is an American pop-punk band which originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994...

, released on May 16, 2000 by Jive Records

Jive Records

Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...

. It was recorded at Reel Time Audio in Denton, Texas, about 100 miles from where the band was formed in Wichita Falls, and featured the groups first hit "The Bitch Song." The album name is a reference to The Outsiders

The Outsiders (novel)

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel based in 1965 by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was sixteen and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published...

. It is the first album with Gary Wiseman on drums.

The band re-recorded several of their older songs for this album. Tracks 6 and 7 appeared on the album Rock on Honorable Ones!!, tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9 originally appeared on the EP Tell Me When to Whoa

Tell Me When to Whoa

Tell Me When to Whoa is the fourth studio album by Bowling for Soup released in June 1998, and later re-released in 1999, on the local Denton music label FFROE. The album is currently out of print...

, and track 8 appeared on both Rock on Honorable Ones!! and Tell Me When to Whoa.

Track listing

Singles

Bowling for Soup made two singles of this album in 2000.

• "The Bitch Song" has a video, where the band is playing the song in a prison, while Jaret remembers the good moments with his girlfriend, whom he calls a bitch.

• "Suckerpunch" has no video, but the band considers this song as a single and plays it in all their live concerts.

Personnel

Bowling for Soup:

• Jaret Reddick
  Jaret Reddick
  Jaret Ray Reddick is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and lead songwriter for the Grammy Award-nominated pop punk band Bowling for Soup. He plays a Music Man Axis that has a flag of Texas design on...
  
   — vocals
  Lead vocalist
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  , guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Erik Chandler — bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Chris Burney — guitar
  Lead guitar
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  s, vocals
• Gary Wiseman — drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals on "All Figured Out"

• Produced
  Record producer
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   by Eric Delegard
• Co-Produced by Jaret Reddick
• Engineered
  Audio engineering
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   by Eric Delegard at Reel Time Audio, Denton, TX
• Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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   by Tom Soares at Electric Lady Studios, NYC Except "The Bitch Song" Mixed by Matt Wallace
  Matt Wallace
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   at Encore Studios, Burbank, CA
• Recording Assistant: Michael England
• Mix Assistants: Shinobu Mitsuoka and James McCrone
• Drum Techs: Rob Avsharian and Matt Thompson
• Mastered
  Audio mastering
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   by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, NYC

Additional Musicians:

• Casey Diiorio — Guitar
  Guitar
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  s on "Pictures He Drew" and "Boulevard"
• Matt Slider and Eric Delegard — Vocals
  Singing
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   on "All Figured Out"
• Joe Cripps — percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  on "Pictures He Drew," "Scope," "Dances With You," "Belgium," "Hang On" and "All Figured Out"
• Mike Duffy — Percussion on "The Bitch Song"
• Michel England — Guitar on "All Figured Out"

• Management: Jeff Roe for FFroe Management
• For Booking: Michael Arfin for QBQ Entertainment
• Gilbert Garza: Stage Manager
• Sweet Charlie: Merchandise and Assistant to Mr. Von Erich
• Legal Representation: Mike McKoy - Serling, Rooks and Ferrara