SLEEPY MEETS MR.SOUL IN LADBROKE GROVE 1. LAMENTATIONS 2. ALTON WHIPS THE PRINCE! 3. AGGRESSION, THE GUN, AN' ALL THEM T'INGS 4. ALTON RECALLS 5. CHARTS

2. ALTON WHIPS THE PRINCE! Alton Ellis: "You ever heard the song name 'Wreck A Pum Pum'? Prince Buster? Is my tune, y'know. One Christmas... 'ca you know is 'Drummer Boy', Christmas carol?... Every girl we see now we start to tease; 'Want a girl to wreck a pum pum'. Daily routine is we af'to pick up an' go to the studio. So we go a Duke (Reid) now an' jus' tease the girl an' a laugh, y'know. Buster a come an' say 'Wapp'm Alton!? Tell the joke to me now man'. Is really about four me sing 'im, over an' over, y'knowhamean? Buster said 'Gimme nuh man, tek it record', me nah record them kinda t'ing. Me 'ave boom like 'Breaking Up', an'... Jus' kicks me a kicks. The nex' day I come back to the studio, man... I see a red light, an' I hear Buster a sing sump'm 'bout 'im go for 'im Chiney brush, an' me go wreck up har pum pum, an' a whole heap a t'ing. So me say to 'im 'Buster, you come more time say you is a Moslem an'... Buster say 'Man cyaan talk about the Moslem business. Right now is red light! Come!'... An' dat tune a come from the street, an' sell thousands!, y'unnerstan? "Now is the same when you say now ''Im shouldn't really put that on record'. 'Im lookin' on the 20,000 sales, an' dat blind 'im eye from all the moral side an' all the other sides involved. It down to money mi bredren, money." | NEXT |