Johansen hosts a weekly show, David Johansen's Mansion of Fun, on Sirius Satellite Radio while continuing to write and perform. In 2009 the band released Cause I Sez So and in 2011 Dancing Backward in High Heels. It was critic Robert Christgau's choice for album of the year. Owing to the success of the tour, in 2006 the New York Dolls released One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, their first album in nearly thirty years. In 2004, Johansen reunited with Sylvain Sylvain and Arthur Kane of the New York Dolls. Johansen's second album with the Harry Smiths is titled Shaker. The group was named as a tribute to Harry Everett Smith, who compiled the Anthology of American Folk Music, several songs of which were covered by the band. Johansen then turned to blues with his group, The Harry Smiths. It was followed by Buster Poindexter's Spanish Rocket Ship, which focused on salsa and merengue music. Johansen went on to issue Buster Poindexter's Happy Hour, an album of songs thematically linked by their subject matter: alcohol. Early Poindexter releases combined an eclectic selection of covers with Johansen's own compositions. As Poindexter, Johansen often appeared with his band, The Banshees of Blue. "Hot Hot Hot" was initially written and recorded by Montserratian Soca artist Arrow. As Poindexter, he scored his first hit song, "Hot Hot Hot", which, in an interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, he called "the bane of my existence," due to its pervasive popularity. He also appeared as part of the house band on the television program Saturday Night Live. In the late 1980s, Johansen achieved moderate commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, accompanied by The Uptown Horns, performing jump blues, traditional pop, swing, and novelty songs. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, and for playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged. He is best known as a member of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls. DecemDavid Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor.
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