''Teenage Queen'' is an EP by new wave band

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, released in 1982 by

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. It was commissioned for advertising use by the Japanese cosmetic brand Perky Jean by

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and was only released in Japan. Sung to the music from the band's then-current single "Baby, Oh No", the title track's lyrics extolled the virtues of the Perky Jean make-up line. The track is often misidentified as "Perky Jean" due to the chorus of "Hey perky, perky jean, you make me feel like a teenage queen". The album also includes "El Bosso Dicho" (which had first appeared as the b-side of one of the band's earlier singles, "

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"), along with the band's biggest hit, "

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", first featured on the group's North America-only EP, ''

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'' earlier in the year. When

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reissued ''

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'' in 2010 as a 2-CD set, entitled ''See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang/B-Sides'', all 5 tracks from ''Teenage Queen'' were included on the second disc. On 25 May 2018, Cherry Red released the three-disc set ''

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'', which included ''Teenage Queen'' in its entirety on the third disc. The record ''Teenage Queen'' is not related to a widely ported early strip poker computer game from 1988.

Track listing

References

1982 EPs Bow Wow Wow albums RCA Records EPs {{1980s-pop-rock-album-stub