" Sweet Gene Vincent " is a song and single by Ian Dury. Taken from his first solo album New Boots and Panties !! it was her second solo single and her third solo release and was a tribute to Rock 'n' Roll singer Gene Vincent. The album was released November 1977 on the single BELI 23 Sweet Gene Vincent/You're More Than Fair and no sleeve images were released.
Sweet Gene Vincent remained on Ian Dury's set list for most of his career, even after other fast tracks such as "Plaistow Patricia" and "Blackmail Man" have been dropped due to the deteriorating singing and playing health of his last concert at the London Palladium in February 2000 In 2007, the Blockheads continued to use the song on their set.
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Ian Dury is a Gene Vincent fan from early to mid teens and claims to have bought every Vincent produced. In an interview reprinted on Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury , Dury says that he first heard of Vincent through Be-Bop-A-Lula's inclusion in the movie The Girl Can not Help It and confess to being weeping by a single as a teenager. For the whole of his career, Dury will speak very sentimental, sometimes poetically about Gene Vincent.
It was Vincent's death in 1971 which was a major boost for Dury to make Kilburn & The Highroads who tried hard and his stage clothes at that time often reflected Vincent's influence, especially black leather gloves. She also namechecked the singer in one of her earliest original tracks "Upminster Kid", though under the name of the singer 'full' Gene Vincent Craddock.
Oddly Dury constantly denied that identification with the singer, was also paralyzed and forced to wear a leg buffer, in any way an attraction. He apparently did not even know Vincent was paralyzed when he first became a fan. What attracted Dury to the singer was his voice and his gaze.
Dury chose Vincent's first song, "Woman Love" as one of his 8 songs when he appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs show.
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Lyrics
Ian Dury spent six weeks researching the lyrics and reading two biographies of Gene Vincent before completing them and passing them to co-writer Chas Jankel. If it's stored in its original draft, Jankel jokes, it will take 15 minutes to sing.
Dury's research and knowledge allows most of the lyrics, which tell the life story of Vincent, consisting of references and/or extracts from Vincent's songs. For example, the opening line of the Song Blue Gene Baby is a faithful re-creation of the first line "Blue Jean Bop" and the line Who Who, who, who slapped John? is pronounced when the song accelerates its full tempo immediately lifted from "Who Slapped John". Another line 'and you put the gun down' is the bastardisation of the lyrics of the "Mama Packin 'Pistol" used to reference Partity Vincent to wave the rifle inside the studio (an act that once scared the Beatles). "Be-Bop-A-Lula" is also referenced at least once, because one character in the song "Uncanny Annie" is 'one with a flying foot', 'he who with flying feet' becomes the line in "Be-Bop-A-Lula ".
Referring to Dury's interest in Vincent's performance, the song contains two parts that focus solely on Vincent's distinctive black and white dress. Dury will always forget the second set of black gloves, white frost, black crepe, white tin, white sheets, black knight, black black, dead white while singing "Sweet Gene Vincent" live and replace them often with very different lyrics.
Suggs, lead singer Madness and Dury fans, including several references to the lyrics of "Sweet Gene Vincent" in the tribute song for Ian Dury, "Oranges and Lemons", which he recorded with Jools Holland and Rhythm and Blues. The orchestra for the album Small World, Big Band Volume 1 . Suggs also cites the lyrics of his introductory song to rerune On My Life a documentary about Ian Dury.
B-side
"Sweet Gene Vincent" b-side "You're More Than Fair" was written several years before its final release while Ian Dury was a member of his pub-rock band Kilburn & The Highroads are favorite places and often are in their locations. And in 2008 it still appears on The Blockheads' set.
The song features Ian Dury singing with a Jamaican-style accent (like, for example, "Apeman" Kinks) to reggae songs and telling funny stories about couples having sex as they move through the house, with foreplay starting in the hall and the song ending in ejaculation man on the roof. The lyrics are still worth noting even by modern standards where the songs are much more sexually explicit because of the unusual use of the word 'klitoris'.
Previous versions of songs, recorded with Kilburn & amp; The Highroads show different lyrics that do not retain the theme of 'sexual act at home location' and replace the 'clitoris' with the more rough term 'fanny' (in English fanny used to mean the vagina, not the back like in America).
Reception
"Sweet Gene Vincent" was ranked 13th among the top "Tracks of the Year" for 1977 by NME , with New Boots and Panties !! in rank No. 2 among the top albums of the year.
Reload
"Sweet Gene Vincent" is the only single to be released from New Boots and Panties !! (although the opening song of the album "Wake Up And Make Love With Me" is included in "What A Waste" single) and was previously available as the second track of the album, and is still included on CD-reissues. It has always featured in Ian Dury's compilations since including the first one, Dury's Jukebox .
Version
The live version of this song can be found on the album Dury's Warts' N 'Audience , this is preceded by a brief introduction by Dury in the form of him singing another song and Dury shouting' Oi oi! to the crowd. It features completely different verses replacing both sets of 'black/white' lyrics and Wilko Johnson on guitar. Another version was released, recorded immediately after Ian Dury's death appeared on the first release of The Blockhead without their former Straight From The Desk-2 vocalist. Another live performance at Hammersmith Odeon, featuring Mick Jones from The Clash on guitar, was part of Concert To Kampuchea, on December 27, 1979; Dury teasingly told Jones "Look, we got four chords in this song, Michael."
Robbie Williams sings songs in Brand New Boots and Panties, reinventing New Boots and Panties !! with various other lead singers acting as a tribute album for Ian Dury. Williams and Dury met while working for UNICEF and Williams added an additional repetition of the title track near his own version, Dury often doing this live broadcast.
The support line for Sweet Gene Vincent (ie, instrumental version) has recently been released in 2-Disc edition of Edsel Records New Boots and Panties !! .
A little before the first chorus was sung by Andy Serkis at the end of the biography of Ian Dury Sex & amp; Drug & amp; Rock & amp; Scroll .
The song is also featured on the soundtrack of Christopher Petit Radio On .
References
Works cited
- Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury by Richard Balls, first published in 2000, Omnibus Press
- Ian Dury & amp; The Blockheads: Song By Song by Jim Drury, first published 2003, Sanctuary Publishing.
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