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‘Sugar Bum Bum’
...Remembering ‘Dr Soca’ Ed Watson
“I gave Kitch ‘Sugar Bum Bum’. I tell him, this go be the best song on the album. He say: ‘joke’. He did not know what I was planning for the arrangement.”
That account from Herbert Ed Watson, on the origin story of Lord Kitchner’s (Aldwyn Roberts) iconic 1977 hit “Sugar Bum Bum”, was reported by the late Express entertainment journalist Terry Joseph in this paper on February 6, 2000, five days before the Grandmaster’s passing.
Joseph, who passed away in the United States on January 02, 2008, quoted Watson further:
“Kitch came over one morning and started dancing around the living room, to get vibes. This is how he used to do a lot of his work. I say Kitch I have a nice beat here and melody line, sing something with it and see what happening nah… We went to my son Roger’s room to the keyboard. I started with the bass on the left hand and strumming the right hand then I picked out the melody and we start doing it and I say What boy, I better tape this!”
...Remembering ‘Dr Soca’ Ed Watson
“I gave Kitch ‘Sugar Bum Bum’. I tell him, this go be the best song on the album. He say: ‘joke’. He did not know what I was planning for the arrangement.”
That account from Herbert Ed Watson, on the origin story of Lord Kitchner’s (Aldwyn Roberts) iconic 1977 hit “Sugar Bum Bum”, was reported by the late Express entertainment journalist Terry Joseph in this paper on February 6, 2000, five days before the Grandmaster’s passing.
Joseph, who passed away in the United States on January 02, 2008, quoted Watson further:
“Kitch came over one morning and started dancing around the living room, to get vibes. This is how he used to do a lot of his work. I say Kitch I have a nice beat here and melody line, sing something with it and see what happening nah… We went to my son Roger’s room to the keyboard. I started with the bass on the left hand and strumming the right hand then I picked out the melody and we start doing it and I say What boy, I better tape this!”
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