ukuleledaddy
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Off the brand new show. Let's go!
from the one of the shows just recently added to the companion thread, "i'll be in the garage part 2" this is "makin' love" by the dirty shames
Good to hear my excavations in the archives haven't been in vain (if you haven't already noticed, I did some digging in the wayback archives and resurrected something like 80-100-odd SSMIH playlists - sadly not the George Formby one though! If couldn't find anything the first time you looked, you might just find something now)!!
17 more songs added to the available playlist folks...which at this point is staggering anyway, even to me. I did play some fun ones though...something for everyone, and I got to riff on Sean's show, which is sometimes hard to do because he has a knack for finding an hours worth of music about his light saber collection. Cheers
LOVE?
What particularly impresses me, beside the quality of the music on the SSIMH playlists, is how rarely a song is repeated - and when you consider it's been running for 10 years (520 weeks with an average of 20 songs a show), that's quite an acomplishment. This one, however, is a song that, unusually, has appeared twice in the playlists (ROCKSTEADY VOL. ONE May 13, 2008 & Harmony Sounds the Third March 26, 2009), the Rulers' take on "Stagger Lee" - "Wrong 'Em Boyo", famously covered by the Clash on "London Calling", even though theirs is a very different (much faster), & substantially re-written, version.
Much as I love the tune, I did have difficulties with this one. Firstly, it required a fair bit of research as tabs for the original are nowhere to be found on the wonderweb, so I had to transcribe all the lyrics and obtain the chords myself. Second, the two shows that "Wrong 'Em Boyo" appeared on SSIMH were dedicated to rocksteady, and at 95 BPM, the Rulers certainly played it at a rocksteady tempo - but it sure sounds more like slow ska than rocksteady; Trojan themselves include it in their SKA, not in their Rocksteady box set. Although I tried to keep to the original, I couldn't help playing it more at the 147 BPM of the Clash's ska version - and I'm not sure I really managed to keep either a ska or a rocksteady beat going. But hey, I'm glad to have got it researched and ready before the spindryer gave me my trousers back! :-o