Teenage Lust and the Lustettes was one of the first Glam rock bands to come out of New York. The band that was active from 1972 to 1974, was formed by Harold C. Black on vocals and harmonica, Billy Joe White on guitar and vocals, Charlie Wolf on guitar, Barry Fields of bass, Jimmy Chriss on drums, this formation changed in 1973 with Harold C. Black as original member, Don Kretmar on bass, Bill Lussenden on guitar and Tommy Coyne on drums. The band had four backing vocal singers called The Lustettes, Laurie Maloney, Laurie Weiss, Leslie Weiss and Loretta Vancore.
Harold conceives Teenage Lust in August 1971. Bringing in Billy Joe, Charlie, Barry, and Jimmy, playing their first show at the Hotel Diplomat in February 1972. In June that year they add their four friends as backup singers and christen them the Lustettes. In July 1972 Harold gets a phone call from David Peel, who is looking for backup singers for John Lennon's One to One concert and Harold agrees to bring in Teenage Lust to sing. In August The band play Max's Kansas City. In November they begins a six week stint at the Mercer Arts Center that ends in the second week of December. On the 22nd and 23rd of that same month they play the old Fillmore East renamed the Village East with the New York Dolls and The Magic Tramps. Bob Gruen is in the audience that night and takes pictures of all 3 bands. On the 31st of December 1972, the band is on the David Susskind Show entitled: "The mad mad world of freak rock".
In 1973 Barry, Charlie, and Jimmy leave the band and Bill, Don and Tommy came along. They played a week long stint at The Bitter End and in the summer Loretta left the band. In December they played at the academy of music. The band called it a day in 1974.
