Ramones on vinyl: Sheena is a Punk Rocker

When Joey Ramone played Sheena is a Punk Rocker for Seymour Stein the Sire president flipped out and said, "We gotta record that song now!"
And so they did. The track was recorded at Sundragon Studios in Manhattan, New York the first week of april, 1977. The same studio that was used for Leave Home the year before.
”It was like back in the Fifties; you'd rush into the studio because you thought you had a hit, then you put it right out", Joey recalls in the booklet to the Hey Ho Let's Go-compilation.
Sheena is a Punk Rocker was released four months later, in august 1977. The single reached number 81 on the U.S. single chart.
"To me, "Sheena" was the first surf/punk rock/teenage rebellion song. I combined Sheena, The Queen of the Jungle, with the primalness of punk rock. Then Sheena is brought into the modern day: "But she just could't stay/She had to break away/Well, New York City really has it all", Joey continues.
The engineer Ed Stasium are playing the extra guitar parts "for the Beach Boys feel" and the song was later re-mixed with a heavier sound and in wider stereo for the Rocket to Russia-album.
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle was a popular comic book and TV series in the 40's and 50's. And after Joey wrote the surf/punk anthem Sheena really moved to the city:
"It was funny because all the girls in New York seemed to change their name to Sheena after that song. Everybody was a Sheena."
But not only the New York-girls appreciated the song. This is what Chuck Berry told the punk zine Jet Lag in 1980 when the reporter played songs for him "that kids are listening to these days":
"A good little jump number. These guys remind me of myself when I first started, I only knew three chords too."

The U.S version of the single was originally released with ABC distribution and soon after re-released when Warner took over Sire. The sleeves have the same front but slightly different back sides. There exists a stock version with I don't care on the flip as well as a mono/stereo promo edition to both the ABC and the Warner 7". Four different records if you want to have them all.
Here they are: