Little
Darlin'
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels
CBS
8067
Release
Date: May 1972
Side
1
- Little Darlin' (Maurice Williams)
Side
2
- Mother Nature Calling (Tony Baylis, Reg Quantrill)
Issued
on a single on the CBS label, this is a bit of an oddity.
The release is credited to Adge Cutler and The Wurzels
- but Little Darlin' later appears on The
Wurzels' 1983 Freshly Cut
compilation album (rather than any Adge Cutler and
The Wurzels compilations). And the picture cover
shows no sign of Adge, Reg, Tommy or Tony - indeed it
is a five-piece that looks like a totally different
band to me!
Little
Darlin' is a very un-Wurzelish song. Apart from
a Benny Hill-style spoken bit in the middle, it doesn't
sound like Adge Cutler and The Wurzels at all. It was
originally a
hit in 1957 for the American group The Diamonds,
and this is a fairly straight apart cover of the original
- from the aforementioned spoken bit by Adge. The
song was written by Maurice Williams who originally
recorded it in USA with his group The Gladiolas
- he later went on to have a big hit Stay
with The Zodiacs in 1960.
The
record was produced for Santa Ponsa Productions
by Roger Easterby and Des Champ.
This
single was released across Europe. Below are scan of
the German and Dutch releases. It was later re-issued
in 1974 after Adge's death on the Santa
Ponsa label, and manufactured and distributed
by Pye Records.
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