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American singers imitating Caribbean accents

enquiries about half-remembered songs, records, etc
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Postby Rob Hall » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:06 pm

garth cartwright wrote:Am working on an obit of Luther Dixon, the late great songwriter/producer behind The Shirelles, and found him describing how he gave the first single he produced of theirs (Tonights The Night) a Caribbean flavour because "we knew there was a West Indian market in New York City and they're the ones who bought the record first." I don't know this song - anyone out there think it has that American Caribbean flavour?

Here you go Garth, figure it out for yourself:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-W7Uiic5o[/youtube]
I wouldn't have called it Caribbean myself, but what do I know?
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