Sunday 10 January 2010

Dale Winton in Credibility Shortfall


I generally listen to Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2, hosted by the estimable Dale Winton. This week he played stuff from the charts of 1965, including 'Little Red Rooster' by The Rolling Stones - a splendid recording. However, Dale went on to refer to this as a Sam Cooke song. Ahem - enny fule no that it was written by Willie Dixon and definitively recorded by Howlin' Wolf. Mr Cooke covered it the year before the Stones; they referred back to Messrs Wolf and Dixon rather than Mr Cooke's more 'soulified' version. So, Dale, despite your entertaining orange skin and camp delivery, I'm afraid you have just lost all credibility as far as I am concerned. This just won't do.

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