Dorsey, Lee
On to one of my favorite singers, Lee Dorsey. His voice is great, like a smile, according to a quote attributed to his producer and the author of his hits, Allen Toussaint. (Their work prefigures the great solo records by Toussaint later on -- but that'll be in the Ts... I could very well have filed Lee's records under Toussaint...)
Devo and my band,
Goo Goo Cluster, have
covered "Working in a Coal Mine," as have the Judds, apparently.Web trivia: VH1 has got their picture of
Lee mixed up with that of
Bobby Marchan (who sang at Stax for a period and was also a female impersonator).
I'm listening to my two compilations with slightly different track listings. Both were issued by Charly Records, and one is called "Can You Hear Me."
There's not a wealth of stuff about Lee on the Web.
Here a few of the more interesting links I've found:
* The strangest is a song-by-song listing -- with comments like, "This fast song features a tambourine" -- of a compilation called
Wheeling and Dealing. It's from
Collins Crapo's homepage (sic) -- I don't know whether he thinks his page is "crap" (and has a problem with punctuation) or whether his name is really Crapo...
there's also
*
http://www.nynorecords.com/allen.shtml - Mostly about Toussaint
*
http://www.there1.com/tousan.html - ditto
And also nothing about the fairly mysterious re-issuer Charly of London. A couple of clues are at:
*
http://www.licensemusic.com/company/charly.asp*
http://www.bsnpubs.com/charly/charlya.html
Posted by perryargel
at 11:56 AM MEST
Updated: Friday, 6 June 2003 4:33 PM MEST