(12th October 1963)
“Do you love me - now that I can dance?” The way the band ask the question, you feel the answer had better be yes.
Two-and-a-half sore throat minutes of hollering, pounding and screaming, this is unadulterated club music. A desultory hook, a crude grab at the hips, that’s all and that’s enough. 6
Written by Tom on Monday, December 13th, 2004 | 1,307 views |
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Lena on February 16th, 2007
I can only guess at what this sounds like, and how The Contours did it first and best…
Marcello Carlin on February 16th, 2007
The way Poole enunciates “I can really shake ‘em down” at the beginning is so hopelessly Ealing Studios British that it deflates the rest of the record. They also had the UK hit with “Twist And Shout” since the Beatles didn’t release their version as a single (though it was the lead track of one of the EPs).
Tom on February 16th, 2007
Blimey what a desultory review!
It’s not as good as the Contours but it’s probably only a mark or two off. I like ‘Ealing Studios British’ sometimes - brings to mind that rather sweet archive footage of teens frugging on ToTP. But I think this has a bit more balls than that implies.
Marcello Carlin on February 16th, 2007
I think there is something quite noble about Poole going back to his old job as butcher after the hits dried up.
I remember him on ITV’s Whose Baby? gameshow in the early ’70s with both of Alisha’s Attic!
Lena on February 16th, 2007
By Ealing Studios do you mean he sounds like Peter Sellers? Because then it would be kind of cute. Mashed Potato and the Twist in a bowler hat!
Marcello Carlin on February 17th, 2007
:-)))))))
I was thinking more of young Dirk Bogarde in The Blue Lamp when he blurts out “You’ll never catch me copper!” and sundry other Anglo-Saxonisms… ;-)