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Back in 1979, the Collins Sisters career was at a crossroads. Their first two albums on Harvest garnered mildly enthusiastic reviews, but sales were disappointing. Sales figures went into the red after thousands of disappointed prog fans returned their copies. Their third album on the trend-setting Topic label suffered from poor promotion (a postcard in the window of their local Post Office) and led to a long hiatus.
SC Dolly had substance issues, basically.
DC (laughs) Substance issues! My goodness!
SC And we got a "bad rep" for leaving hotel rooms a little untidy.
DC Shirl threw her zither into the pool! (does rock and roll "horns" gesture)
SC Happy days!
FT3 So you decided to up your game?
SC We heard Grandmaster Flash and his Wheels Of Steel on the wireless, and it was like a revelation!
DC It was the new folk music! Music of the common man!
SC We decided there and then to record our own "rap gangster" long-player!
FT3 Apparently it was a step in the wrong direction for the neckbeards at Topic?
DC They refused to release it. It was a bitter disappointment.
FT3 Could you still perform the material today?
(The ladies gather around the harmonium)
It was on September morning my love he did make bold
Arrayed in costly pantaloons and rings of solid gold
He gaily threw me in the boot of his German limousine
O shut the fuck up bitch you my ho now I gonna treat you mean
With a hey nonny nonny ho and a rilly down dilly-o
Shoot this shit and swallow this pilly-o
Smack up my bitch-o gonna get rich-o
With a rilly-dilly-dillyo I'm yo ho
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There must have been some powerful herb going round at the Topic Record label in the late 70’s. Below link to Bob Davenport, another very trad British folky who incorporated some Bob Marley And The Wailers (at 2.58) into a track from his 1977 Topic album.
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Lil bro Bootsy coulda lent some street cred, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant...utterly brilliant !!!
ReplyDeleteWell, ain't you a sweetheart. I do these things, thinking lol, this is smirk-worthy, and when I've done them I look at them and think what was I thinking? Is this funny? Way back when, I used to share a room with a sitcom writer, and you couldn't imagine a glummer, more serious place to be. We'd show each other our stuff, and if it was funny we'd say "That's funny," without even breaking into a smile.
DeleteWell, I think it's funny and I'm pissing myself. Though it could be my age...
DeleteI genuinely do enjoy Shirley and Dolly Collins music, even have a CD of their album For As Many as Will. Keep on with these amusing asides FT3, we need all the laughs we can get right now, as the world goes to these very dark places.
DeleteThe all caps Gothic font is *chef's kiss*.
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