Everyday Creation
This show has to do with different kinds of creation: human, divine, and a third kind that connects the two. Our human creativity is easy to talk about because clearly we're prolific creators. We make music, we write, we cook; we establish businesses, we design gardens, we invent things. The list goes on and on. Another kind of creation is divine. We feel its presence when, for example, we contemplate birth, death, our life purpose, or have a quiet realization that there's something bigger than us. The third kind is perhaps a little more difficult to grasp and yet, with a little practice, it's easy to put into action. This is the personal power each of us has to direct our thoughts, words and actions every day toward what we want in our life and world, rather than what we don't want.
This sounds heavier than it is. For me, this show is an acknowledgment that while we're all here to learn and grow and do our best, there's still plenty of opportunity to relax, laugh, love, and enjoy this playground we call life. So my hope is that you'll get some enjoyment and illumination out of these episodes. Here you'll find interviews with delightfully creative individuals; short stories about some who have passed away; and essays about personal power.
I'm Kate Jones, host and creator of Everyday Creation. Thank you for following my show.
Everyday Creation
New York Doll/Buster Poindexter David Johansen Thought "Hot Hot Hot" was Cool until He Didn't
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In the '80s, the New York Dolls were known for performing in high heels and makeup. Their audience loved the showmanship, especially frontman David Johansen's onstage strutting.
As a solo act, he was most successful as his lounge singer alter ego, Buster Poindexter. You can watch him singing and gyrating his way through "Hot Hot Hot" in this YouTube video. I do believe I caught glimpses of Bill Murray in the street scenes, but maybe I was just too hot, hot, hot to see clearly!
The photo in the thumbnail shows Johansen (center) performing with the New York Dolls on the Dutch television program "TopPop" in 1973. The shot is attributed to By AVRO (FTA001019054 010 con.png Beeld En Geluid Wiki - Gallerie) and is available for use on Wikimedia Commons under this license.
In the chapters, you'll see a photo of Johansen in 2011 when he performed with the Dolls at Club Academy, Manchester. It's attributed to Man Alive! and is available on Wikimedia Commons under this license.
The art that frames two sides of the photo was created by Bob Jones.
Song of the Day creator Sheldon Zoldan researched, wrote and narrated this short story, one of 35 tributes to music stars who passed away in 2025. Song of the Day used to be a daily feature delivered to an email list of subscribers. Sheldon ended it in early 2026 which, I suppose, means that Song of the Day deserves a tribute of its own. The good thing is that the tributes to music makers live on. Each is a snapshot of the life of one music maker whose work made an impact on the lives of many.
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David Johansen was part New York Doll and part Buster Poindexter, a Las Vegas style crooner singing show tunes, swing and pop songs.
Johansen and his alter ego, Poindexter, died February 25th in New York City. Johansen had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 75.
The Song of the Day is paying tribute to the singers, songwriters, and musicians who died in 2025.
Johansen was a frontman for the New York Dolls. The group, formed in 1971, only released two albums before disbanding in 1976, but it was one of the early influencers of punk and glam rock. The group often dressed in women’s clothing, high heels and makeup. The New York Times obituary included a quote from a 1972 Rolling Stone article about the band. “Before going on stage, the Dolls pass around a Max Factor lipstick the way some bands pass around a joint.”
The New York Dolls were a love or hate them kind of band. They never had a single reach the Hot 100 chart, and their albums didn’t do much better. Their live shows were what attracted audiences, with Johansen strutting and dancing, doing his best Mick Jagger imitation.
He went solo when the band broke up. He had his greatest success with his alter ego, Poindexter, who wore suits befitting a lounge singer and his hair in a pompadour. He recorded his most successful hit, “Hot, Hot, Hot” as Poindexter.
Alphonsus Cassell, who recorded as Arrow, first recorded it. Johansen said he heard the song every day while working for a week in the Caribbean. He liked it, decided to record it and then it became a hit, rising to 45 on the singles chart. He never thought it would live forever.
“It was the bane of my life,” Johansen said on an NPR show in 2004, and asked host Terry Gross not to play the song. She didn’t, but he did relent and sing it at his nephew’s wedding.
