You went to Bates! Did you know some rich guy named Ordway? I forget his first name.
"I Know What Boys Like" was simply a phenomenon. It led to the whole act. Bandleader Chris Butler claims on the Best Of The Waitresses liner notes that he wrote it first, kind of on a whim, before any other Waitresses songs, then found his singer by... well
let him tell it:
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and then one day i write this song and then it's noon and the liquid lunchers are packed into a boho bar called walter's on kent's notorious water street strip. i stand on a chair and bang a beer bottle for attention and declare "i need a chanteuse to coo a tune." now, here's a chance to actually do something (people were always griping about how there was nothing going on and how they were getting it together to leave town...uh...soon). the song is funny and stupid and cool and different and is anybody interested? a voice in the back says "uh huh."
it's Patty.
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She wasn't a great singer. Singers you find in bars without auditioning are generally not great (see The Human League). But that became part of the charm of the band.
Tracy Wormworth went on to play with Sting (she's twice the bass player that he is), and is currently the bassist for the B-52s. Her brother James became the drummer for Conan O'Brien.