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8/22/2023


SUGAR BOOM BOOM SONG

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He did not know what I was planning for the arrangement.

I tell him this go be the best song on the album, he say 'joke'. Charlie
(Rawlston Charles) was backing the album financially, so we called him, got the
okay and started to practise this thing. But it was a good thing I did, because
by the time he got back home, he had forgotten it and had to call me back.
"Kitch never taped his music as he composed, you know, he did not like tape
recorders. I started with the bass on the left hand and strummingon the right
hand, then I picked out the melody and we start doing it and I say: 'What boy! I
better tape this. "I say, 'Kitch I have a nice beat here and a melody line, sing
something with it and see what happening, nuh?' It was bothering me, I didnot
want it bothering me as it could get away, so we went to my son Roger's room, to
the keyboard. This is how he usedĭo a lot of his work," Watson said. "Kitch came
over one morning and started dancing around the livingroom to get vibes. I told
him to come for it, because by I felt that if I tried to keep it for the
following year, someone might have come up with something similar. The first
person I called was my good friend Joey Lewis and played it for him. I had just
released my own 1977 album This is Musicand this beat and melody came into my
head. Speaking to the Sunday Express,Watson said: "For over six weeks, Kitch
tried to come up with a tenth song and just couldn't. Kitchener had only been
able to come up with nine songs for his album that year and he needed
another.Įnter master arranger, Ed Watson. Over the years, the very construction
of the song was attributed to Kitch, mainly because he was known as a good
bass-player and one of the song's major hooks is its commanding bassline.Įven in
the lyrics, the word "Audrey", trumpeted by Kitch to start what would become the
song for which he is best known in the latter day, was not the name that he
wrote, when he finally completed the opening verse. The eternally infectious
music of what was, in fact, his biggest calypsoever, the blockbuster "Sugar Bum
Bum", was not his song, according to the man who arranged the music for the
piece.Īs recently as Friday night, at the Newtown Girls' RC Carnival fete,
bandsinger Steve Sealy, working with Horyzun, did the song as a tribute to
Kitch.

OF the hundreds of beautiful calypso melodies composed by Kitchener, the song
that became his trademark was actually written by someone else. Terry Joseph,
Trinidad Express, Sunday February 6, 2000

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