Comments on: BRIAN POOLE AND THE TREMELOES - “Do You Love Me?”

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:51:43 +0000

:-)))))))

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… ;-)

By: Lena

Lena — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:29:05 +0000

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!

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:21:47 +0000

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!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:10:48 +0000

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.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:44:06 +0000

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).

By: Lena

Lena — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:21:47 +0000

I can only guess at what this sounds like, and how The Contours did it first and best…