Remember 'Daddy'
Published:Tuesday | June 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
In his usually interesting and informative 'Music Diaries' in The Sunday Gleaner (June 16, 2013), Roy Black aptly featured Eddie Fisher's notable 1954 hit Oh My Papa and other appropriate songs highlighting the significance of fathers on Father's Day.
But I wondered how he could have omitted Daddy, that quintessential 1965 hit by The Maytals and an all-time local favourite, with Toots Hibbert at his best.
Indeed, Daddy was merely the flip side of a Dynamic Sounds 45 disc which actually released It's You as the A side, two incredible hits that enjoyed an amazing consecutive run at No. 1 on the Top Ten Jamaican Hit Parade, at a time when The Drifters had just released their Atlantic label super 45 with the chart-topping Under The Boardwalk and I Can't Go On Without You.
However, Eddie Fisher was perhaps just as famous for Oh My Papa as he was for his marriages to two of Hollywood's top-ranking leading ladies of the period. First, Debbie Reynolds, from whom he was snatched by Elizabeth Taylor to become Husband No. 3 of what was it again - seven husbands?
Incidentally, just for the record, wasn't that 'white English crooner named Eddie Fisher' born in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, USA, on August 10, 1928?
TROY CAINE