EDDIE CALVERT - “Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White”
(27th May 1955)
You have to wonder about this one. Were people buying both this and the Prado version? Or was the vote split? And why? There?s not too much difference - Prado’s got a bigger kick early on, Eddie lets go a bit more in the second half of the tune, maybe somebody should have done a mash-up, maybe somebody did! What’s most likely is that customers went into the shops and said “OK, have you got that trumpet one ? the one that goes eeeeowwwwwwww a lot?” and the shopkeeper just handed them a record from the nearest pile. Eddie leaves off the grunting man, which almost gets him my vote but Prado’s intro has just that little bit more swagger. 5
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