Dozen Girls

"Dozen Girls"
Single by the Damned
from the album Strawberries
B-side
  • "Take That"
  • "Mine's a Large One Landlord"
  • "Torture Me"
Released17 September 1982 (1982-09-17)
Recorded1982
StudioRockfield (Monmouth, Wales)
Genre
Length4:21
LabelBronze
BRO 156
Songwriter(s)
  • Scabies
  • Sensible
  • Vanian
Producer(s)
The Damned singles chronology
"Lovely Money"
(1982)
"Dozen Girls"
(1982)
"Generals"
(1982)

"Dozen Girls" is a single by English punk rock band the Damned, released on 17 September 1982 by Bronze Records.

After the experiment of "Lovely Money", the song returned the band to slightly more familiar territory, but failed to chart. The album version released on Strawberries was slightly different from the single version, with the play-out featuring a roll call of a dozen girls replaced by the repeated line "He's alright and he don't care, he's got thermal underwear". Some pressings of the single credited Billy Karloff as a co-writer of "Dozen Girls".

The single was also issued in Bolivia by Philips Records, with "Bad Time for Bonzo" on the B-side.

The song "Torture Me", which appeared on the single, is about the ethics of eating meat. It was composed and performed by Captain Sensible, who was a vegetarian at the time.[2]

  1. ^ Segretto, Mike (2022). "1982". 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999. Backbeat. p. 405. ISBN 9781493064601.
  2. ^ "Damned : "Torture Me"". La Terre d'abord ! (in French). 23 September 2015. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.