A Devilish Walk and Standing with Jesus

As I have written about, ad nauseum, the earliest records on the Cinema label mostly feature a single solo male singing, accompanied by one of those all-in-one console organs, complete with drum effects and chording, that were so popular in living rooms in the '60's and '70's. I certainly always wanted us to get one. They are by far the most direct, simplest and perhaps most scammy of song-poem releases, although on occasion, they were brilliant. 

Here we have one which is not so brilliant. The song-poet who submitted "Pretty Red Curl", couldn't be bothered to submit a poem of more than nine lines, resulting in our friends at Cinema needing to pad the record, with an instrumental intro and solo section, and with repeated lines, just to get to 112 seconds. Note that the lyrics start at 0:13 and end 38 seconds later - everything else is just a repeat of earlier lyrics. At least the lyrics are stunningly well composed. Oh, wait, no they aren't. 

Download: The Real Pros - Pretty Red Curl

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The flip side, "For Jesus I Will Stand", contains precisely the lyric that you would expect from a song called "For Jesus I Will Stand", and the stultifying arrangement and performance leaves me cold, with nothing else to say about it.

However, I would like to refer you to the author credit, which is to Dovie Beanblossom, which has to be one of the great names of all time. Further yet, an online search tells me her full name was "Dovie Lenguilliams Beanblossom", and all I can say is, I wish that was my name (although I wouldn't want to sign for anything). 

Download: The Real Pros - For Jesus I Will Stand

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