What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? - EMILE FORD & THE CHECKMATES
12/3/60 - 19/3/60
At first listen, I really thought that the singer would be a very white American, probably wearing a cowboy hat, as the style of this tune is really quite American country - not really bluesy enough to be rock and roll. The vocalist also sounds quite "pale" on first listen.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw this page. It turns out that Ford migrated from the Bahamas to England, and what he really wanted to do was be a sound engineer.
For a British record, this is amazingly American sounding, especially in the production. The style of the backing singers, the prominent (and nicely overloaded) snare drum, and the sexual bravado of Ford ("I'll get you alone tonight, and baby you'll find you're messing with dynamite") just scream "American" to me.
After a few listens, the song gets more appealing, but I can't say it's anything really special. So goes another one-hit wonder.
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Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw this page. It turns out that Ford migrated from the Bahamas to England, and what he really wanted to do was be a sound engineer.
For a British record, this is amazingly American sounding, especially in the production. The style of the backing singers, the prominent (and nicely overloaded) snare drum, and the sexual bravado of Ford ("I'll get you alone tonight, and baby you'll find you're messing with dynamite") just scream "American" to me.
After a few listens, the song gets more appealing, but I can't say it's anything really special. So goes another one-hit wonder.
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