Despite misspelling Judi’s name as Judy, the 45 had a good response locally and launched the girls on a weekend career of performing choreographed dance moves at teen dances across central Canada and the Midwest. Recorded at Detroit’s United Sound Studios, “Dum Dum De Dip” b/w “Marie, Give Him Back” was released on Stratton’s DoDe Records in 1964. Central to the work was arranger Richard “Popcorn” Wylie, Motown’s first head of A&R and a pianist on many of the label’s early classics. Stratton called on his local contacts to back the group on their debut 45. His initial responsibilities consisted of chauffeuring the Affections to and from Stratton’s studio. Stratton?” Her older brother Alex Placido-seven years her senior and himself a former singer with the Counts-was named as the group’s manager. “What was I going to do to meet with this Mr. “I was from a strict Italian family, I couldn’t even date,” she said. Eager to prove the strength of her material, Judi cold-called producer Ernie Stratton, and earned the group an audition for a record deal before they’d ever played a show. They performed a repertoire of her original songs, which she’d written in the family basement. Soon she enlisted her younger sister Joanne and two older girls from Regina, Louise Diegel and Sue Gardner, to form Judi & the Affections.
Dum de dum dum dum dum song how to#
“I wrote ‘Dum Dum De Dip’ and I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to get some girls who know how to sing,’” she explained. She formed her first vocal group with friends at school, but soon found her peers couldn’t hang with her growing talent for songcraft. “I didn’t have much of a social life as a teenager.”Īs a freshman at Regina High School, she was ambitious. “Instead of a garage band, I was a basement singer,” Placido said.
Young Placido was soon obsessed music, and driven enough to write, record, and release two 45s before she finished high school.
Hitsville U.S.A was a short trip to the other side of town and, crucially, there was a piano in her basement. She grew up in Detroit in the ’60s with a mother who sang at family functions, and an older brother who crooned with a doo-wop group on street corners. Music reverberated throughout Judith Placido’s childhood.
0 kommentar(er)
