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Cub Koda was born Michael Uszniewicz in Detroit, Michigan on October 1, 1948, the first child of his parents, George and Lois.
Michael "Cub" Koda was born on October 1, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan.

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Raised in a small town where he was viewed as something of an outsider by the locals, Cub Koda had big city dreams; and he worked tirelessly to make them come true. Self-taught on both drums and guitar, he would form his first band and release his first records while still in high school. On stage, Koda combined his impressive guitar chops with a larger than life personality and his ever-beating rock and roll heart. Although he is most famous for being a founding member of Brownsville Station and co-writing the band’s biggest hit, “Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room”, Koda’s career knew no bounds. He was also an accomplished writer and music critic, a dedicated record compiler, a one-of-a kind DJ, a rock and roll and blues historian, and a prankster of the first order.

Cub Koda was born Michael Uszniewicz in Detroit, Michigan on October 1, 1948, the first child of his parents, George and Lois. His sister Andrea was born three years later after the family had moved to Inkster. In 1957, George Uszniewicz, who was of Romanian and Russian descent, officially changed the family

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Michael "Cub" Koda was born on October 1, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan. His father Max owned a small-town newspaper in Manchester, Michigan. He got his nickname Cub from the character of Cubby on the TV show The Mickey Mouse Club (1955). Koda was a drummer at age five and formed his first group, The Del-Tinos, while attending Manchester High School. The group recorded three singles before breaking up in 1966. Cub formed the rock band Brownsville Station in 1969, which scored a big hit in 1973 with the terrifically thrilling teen attitude anthem classic "Smokin' in the Boy's Room," which peaked at #3 on the Billboard pop charts and sold over two million copies. Brownsville Station continued to perform in concert and record albums, but disbanded in 1979.

Koda began recording one-man band songs in such diverse music genres as country, blues, R&B, jazz, rockabilly and early rock'n'roll with a multi-track tape recorder while still a member of Brownsville Station; these recordings were released as the album "That's What I Like About the

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Born in Detroit on October 1, 1948, Michael Koda, better known by his stage name, Cub Koda, died suddenly on July 1, 2000, of kidney-disease complications. The Brownsville Station front man and rock star would have turned 65 today. His widow, Jeannie Koda, talks publicly for the first time since his death, in this exclusive to Deadline Detroit, and – with many others who knew him well – reflects on his life, music, and legacy.

By William Hanson

When Cub Koda and his Ann Arbor-based band Brownsville Station shot to the top of the Billboard charts in 1974 with the rebellious anthem “Smokin’ In the Boys Room,” Koda, whose unmistakable snarl and bluesy guitar drove the song, was 25, and living with his parents at the family home in Manchester, a sleepy farm town on the western edge of Washtenaw County.

Cub and Jeannie Koda on their wedding day in 1976

Brownsville Station, formed by Koda and Michael Lutz in swinging Ann Arbor five years earlier, had a well-earned reputation for hard-charging performances and proto-punk sensibilities. The band