DESCRIPTION:
The Velvet Monkeys debut 1982 release, Everything is Right, features Don Fleming on vocals and guitar, Elaine Barnes on vocals and keyboards, Stephen Soles on bass and Jay Spiegel on drums. Skip Groff first recorded the Velvet Monkeys in 1981 at Don Zientara's Inner Ear Studios. "Drive In" and "Shadow Box," were featured on Groff's Connected LP, a sampler of D.C bands released in 1981 on Limp Records. The band followed that with the cassette-only Everything is Right, released on the Monkey Business label in July 1982. The original ten songs are featured on the reissue, followed by three additional live songs from a show at The Chancery in D.C. on New Year's Eve 1981.

June 7, 2011 on Instant Mayhem
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July 5, 2011 on Thick Syrup Records
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