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« Thread Started on May 8, 2012, 9:09pm » | |
My current favourite Jamaican songster is the hitherto unknown Leslie Batchelor.
I probably bought his 'Indian Woman', a duet with the redoubtable Lambert Douglas, sometime during the early 1980s, played it once, stored it in my Clive Francis selection, and didn't rediscover it until about a month ago.
Issued on Francis's Rosso label, 'Indian Woman' starts out with Lambert Douglas giving voice to Bobby Day's 1958 B-side 'Over And Over'.
This tune should be well known to a reggae audience, as it was bowdlerised by Cornel Campbell for 'Dance In A Greenwich Farm':
"Well, I went to a dance just the other night
Everybody there was there
I said over and over and over again
This dance is gonna be a drag"
Lambert Douglas is of course a singer with some previous form, recording most of his own solo efforts for Rosso at Channel One studio, including titles like 'Jah Jah No New', 'Babylon Bawling' and 'Natty Dread Stand', as well as several tunes for George McLean, such as 'African Way' on Mid-Night and 'Repatriation' on Abeng. Leslie Batchelor is very much Lambert's junior and Les is quick to mention his partner when interrupting his Bobby Day interpretation to talk of his own interests, namely his Asian girlfriend.
"Me know a little gal, her name Sandra, she's madly in love with Leslie Batchelor," he sings, toasting along to the Rosso rhythm.
The chorus is merely a repetition of the title several times, hence: "Indian, Indian, Indian woman, Indian, Indian, Indian woman..." ad nauseam.
Unfortunately, this was the only side that Leslie Batchelor ever recorded, or at least the only one I know of. As well as Lambert Douglas, Clive Francis also employed the services of The Dingles, a harmony group who had some limited success in the mid 1970s with titles like ' I I', 'Happiness' and 'Possible', as well as several one away singers such as Delroy Scarlet, Don Alexander and Eric Valentine. All his productions came out on his Rosso label and 'Indian Woman' was the last title of his that I ever saw or heard.
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« Reply #1 on May 9, 2012, 11:08am » | |
Peter,
I have seen that name somewhere else! 'Leslie Batchelor'
The Dingles recorded a second album for Lambert, which is
still unreleased.
It seems they also recorded for Buster in the mid-sixties under
another name.
Lambert's label design went from a simple slipper to a very hi-tech
trainer over the course of the years!
Thank you for the info.
All the very best
Ray
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« Reply #3 on May 9, 2012, 8:03pm » | |
I think you've misheard the lyrics of Bobby Day's "Over and Over", Pen. Maybe it's my ears, but I always heard the opening lines as
"Well went to a dance the other night
Everybody went stag"
i.e. everyone attended without a partner; this of course makes the fourth line rhyme with the second
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« Reply #4 on May 10, 2012, 1:08am » | |
Dingles = Dingle Brothers? Yes or no?
Love the Dingle Brothers "This is Thunder"....awesome horns there.
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« Reply #5 on May 10, 2012, 10:55am » | |
The Dingles were the Dalton Brothers who recorded for Buster.
Well pleased to remember that!
All the very best
Ray
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