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Artist: Cadillacs
Author: Esther Navarro
Label: Josie
Year: 1955
Top 3 R&B, top 20 US. Vocal group from Harlem. Speedoo was their lead singer Earl Carroll's nickname, soon leaving for the Coasters who soon cut a Speedoo's Back In Town. Melodically related with Got The Water Boiling (And I'm Gonna Cook Your Goose) by The Regals on Atlantic earlier that year, admits Earl 'Speedoo' Carroll.
Covers:
Steve Lawrence [for Coral]
Commodores [for Dot]
Ry Cooder [as Speedo, with co-credits for Alan Levy, son of Morris Levy who published the (o)]
Herman Brood [idem]
Ann Cole adopted the "Buzz buzz a-diddle-it" chorus in I've Got Nothing Working Now (But My Real Old Fashioned Love) in '57 and in fact so did Freddy Cannon in '61 in his Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium